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Elissa Altman's avatar

I adore--ADORE--this post and I adore this woman and I don’t even know her. As a 59 year old woman who had a Covid-related stroke and whose health has gone batshit crazy, I want to know more about what she did and what she does---Come for lunch, both of you. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

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Rebecca Holden's avatar

Fantastic post - really fascinating. Extraordinary insight into a creative life in light of late-diagnosed autism - I loved reading how Julia's diagnosis has provided her with some clarity, some explanation of those unanswered questions in her life lived up to that point.

This question, right at the start, stopped me in my tracks: "Is there another age you associate with yourself in your mind? If so, what is it? And why, do you think?"

People don't really need to ask me my age these days, as I'm a grey-haired 47 and certainly look it, but for years, whenever anyone asked me 'how old are you?', my immediate answer would always be '26'. Ever since I was 26 I have always been 26. At 26, due to serious illness, my life was paused, interrupted, on hold. And my automatic, without-thinking, response to 'how old are you?' is still: 'I'm 26'.

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