This reminds me of High School Art class. We were tasked with using water colour paints to colour a (photocopied) scene of a farm house with a long fence following a path, a few tufts of grass here and there.

Vague, just like I described. Everyone else painted lush rolling green fields with a red farm house.

I painted a beautiful winter scene, using the tufts of grass as a sprinkling of colour along the scene.

I loved the painting. I didn’t cheap out, but thought the scene was winter due to the lack of other defining characteristics to imply no snow. I sure felt stupid when I realized I was the only one who thought that. :(

These kinds of activities are meant to encourage creativity, but when that creativity shows how NON conforming your thoughts are compared to others, you can’t help but feel dumb, especially when others observe your thoughts.

Where I live, adult diagnosis’ start in the thousands, never mind the constant therapy sessions afterwards that aren’t covered.

It’s too expensive to be officially diagnosed …