In this series of things we were told were good for us, that turned out to be bad for us and things we were told were bad for us that turned out to be good for us, I’d like to talk about…pets. If you’d rather listen to this, there is an audio version in the Un-Normal podcast.
And this is something that I have been told was ‘good’ for me both generally in my life, as well as specifically as a neurodivergent person, so I’m mentioning this one as a bit of a myth buster. Because of course autists aren’t a monolith and have incredibly diverse differences between them.
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