Is it possible to be mild dyslexic with few or no symptoms as a young Adult(16), but had difficulties as a child/early teen?

Here is my humble "theory" that I postulated in order to understand and talk about autism. It is NOT a scientifically-tested explanation. To me, autism is a normal variation of human development.

It is nature's way of trying to expand the capacities and horizons of the brain. Picture your nervous system like a series of knobs on a stereo...one for every single thing our nervous system does. One knob for sight, one knob for hearing, one for balance...it's crude, but I hope you get the picture.

Everyone's knobs are tuned/turned just so. When a lot of the knobs are tuned way out of the typical range, you get autism. Again, this is not scientific, it's a way to try and understand what we face.

It also explains why many people have autistic "traits". This is a way to explain autism to the uneducated, also. And you can add, picture a boombox, on your shoulder, turned up incredibly loud so that it is painful, and you get an idea of what autism may be like.

I say MAY, because our nervous system is so complicated. One child or adult with autism can have too low muscle tone, or too high, or in the typical range, for instance. So many variations.

No one really knows what causes autism. No one know what may happen to us if we discover a way to "eliminate" autism from our species. We may prevent the births of people that are creative, intelligent, and so on.

Certainly we need to help those autistic individuals that are suffering (one person said that their skin felt like it was on fire, can you imagine the pain?). No one knows why some autistic individuals have more "problems" than others. A true mystery that many are working on.

One clue is that when people are given hearing or sight later in life, it is very difficult for them to try and "sift" through all the incoming data and to make sense of it all. They lack "filters" which is what most autistic people lack for at least one or more of their senses.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.