By Emily Linder, LPCC-S | Calibrations Counseling & Consultation A client came to therapy last month crying because her sister had just announced she was pregnant. She was expected to be excited, to gush over ultrasound photos, to immediately start planning baby showers. Instead, she felt nothing. Or rather, she felt stressed about the social performance that was about to be required of her for the next nine months. "What's wrong with me?" she asked. "I love my sister. I shou

By Emily Linder, LPCC-S | Calibrations Counseling & Consultation For most of my twenties, I was the friend who organized everything. Weekend trips, group dinners, birthday celebrations, impromptu happy hours. I was always saying yes and constantly creating opportunities for people to gather. Everyone knew me as social, outgoing, the connector who brought people together. I was exhausted all the time. But I thought that was just normal adult tiredness. Then I got my autism dia