You always say, “I’m sad,” and I know you are, with good reason. You were diagnosed with high-functioning autism late, after fifteen years of everyone wondering why you talked a little too slow, processed things a little too late. You still haven’t accepted your diagnosis, even though you’re twenty years old now. You don’t want …

It’s Halloween, 2019, and Asiya Huda Ahmed is not going to her friend’s party in costume – though to the world, it certainly does not look that way. She looks nothing like herself. She’s wearing something different, something that makes her look… well, she’s not sure what it makes her look like yet. She still …