Courtesy Tiffany Hammond(NEW YORK) A Texas mom whose two kids have autism is challenging others to learn about autism spectrum disorder this April, which happens to be Autism Acceptance Month.
It s an issue close to Tiffany Hammond s heart, not only because the condition affects her family, but also herself.
The 38-year-old told Good Morning America she received a diagnosis of Asperger s syndrome when she was 18 and in college. Nowadays, doctors no longer use the Asperger s syndrome classification. Instead, people who were given that diagnosis in the past are now understood to have a form of autism.
"In college, I was just like, I don t want to tell anybody this," Hammond told GMA. "So I didn t really think about it. I kind of took the [diagnosis] papers and hid them in my drawers in my dorm and tried to basically go about life as I always was going about it."
But in the last two decades, Hammond s perspective has shifted dramatically and she s now on a missio
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