Study brings undiagnosed adults struggling with autism out of the shadows

(University of Vermont) For most of his life, Kevin Hughes has felt like an outsider. A loner as a child, the 65-year-old comedian struggled to make friends as an adult, often offending people without knowing why. That changed one night when he was told by a physician after one of his comedy shows that he might have autism, sending him into a painful three-year struggle of self-diagnosis

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