In this weeks episode, Rich talks growing up as an undiagnosed autistic child/adult and what it was like growing up making friends, masking to fit in and how he had to consider his own authenticity in later life to decide whether to keep having the same friendship behaviours and barriers or whether it was time to show his friends his authentic self. Both masking and his authentic self have been challenging to make friends in the past, but his diagnosis has helped him understand and work with this. If this episode has made you want to contact the show, you can get in touch with the podcast via the links at the bottom of the show notes.

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