by Alex Holt
Alex Holt was born on Long Island but grew up near Albany and Buffalo, New York. He was first identified as being on the autism spectrum around 1994 or 1995. He received his bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College in journalism in 2013 before moving to Baltimore and receiving his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014. He recently completed an internship at the Rosenbloom Owings Mills JCC in 2017, where he still writes.
“If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism” - Dr. Stephen Shore
What’s it like being autistic? I honestly couldn’t tell you, at least not completely. Actually, that’s not quite true: I...