PHILADELPHIA - In 2021, the month of April went from being Autism Awareness Month to Autism Acceptance Month in an effort to make society more accepting of differences and one local woman is focused on doing just that.
More women are being diagnosed with autism as adults, including Sarah Nannery, the Director of Development for Autism Programming at Drexel University.
She was diagnosed at the age of 31 when she was already a college graduate, married and a mother. "I went all through childhood just sort of being on the sidelines.
I had a wonderful childhood, but there were just some differences that I never could really get a handle on," she told FOX 29.