About me

She said I was “delightfully quirky.”

I grew up just being a big ol’ weirdo. One day long ago, while driving with my mom–I can’t even remember what wacky and surely self-deprecating story I was telling her about some big ol’ weirdo thing I did–she said I was delightfully quirky.

In my late 40s, I learned something pretty huge about myself. After about a year working on self-assessment, I have finally gotten through the professional diagnosis process and confirmed I am autistic. Turns out that’s a very narrow diagnosis, not really explaining most of the coexisting conditions that so many other autistic people have. So I guess now I’ll spend the rest of my life figuring out the rest of it.

I’m female at birth and mostly female presenting (although “they” feels perfectly comfortable to me, because I don’t really get gender). Child-free but with two cats, Musashi and Lady Eva von Sassipants, I live in Chicago again (I was born here) after bouncing all over the country for 20 years.

As a habitual writer, of course I’m documenting it all. And since awareness of this condition in women (AFAB) is still relatively new, might as well do it publicly.

Feel free to reach out via email at michelebucolic@gmail.com or on Instagram @delightfully_quirky.

Have a super day

—Michele Bucolic (was Truty until very recently)