Coming to terms with having medium support needs

For a very long time after getting my autism diagnosis at age 20, I assumed I had low support needs . I was originally diagnosed with Asperger’s when that was still a thing and thought that meant I had low support needs. People who don’t know me well tend to assume I’m “very Autistic” because of the way I speak , while people close to me think I’m only “mildly Autistic” because they see me as…