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Terra Vance was a teacher
who had no idea she was autistic. But one day, during a full-day meeting in a small conference room, other colleagues noticed Vance s atypical behavior. Vance told Salon that, prior to that meeting, a principal told her to stop rocking and folding my arms because she looked like a crackhead, in the administrator s words. During that meeting in the cramped quarters, however, several times people kept asking me what was wrong. I didn t know why they kept asking that. Someone then asked me if I hated being there. I asked them why everyone was asking me, and they said it was because I seemed impatient. I told them that I was ADHD, and they acted like it was an excuse.