Autism, board gaming and me

How and why board games have helped me as an autistic individual

I’m autistic.

It’s a label I didn’t know applied for me for a very long time. But one I embraced when – following a spate of mental health issues and a lifelong curiosity about why certain thoughts, feelings and actions and seemed different in my experiences compared to how others did them or described them – I sought a diagnosis… and got one in 2021.