Overall, I loved your breakdown and analysis of the show. But I do not share your desire to see her get a diagnosis in season 2. I loved Geek Girl, but also found it incredibly difficult to watch and cried during almost every episode. I'm a cis woman and was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 36. I asked about autism at the time and was told i wasn't autistic. By the age of 44, I'm firmly convinced I am with the help of other women with both ADHD and Autism sharing their experiences. I'm intelligent and high functioning. I was very much like Harriett at that age. No One helped me, diagnosed me, suggested there was anything medical about my situation. I was just weird, awkward, an outcast. I never knew why I was so different. I had to find my own way through the world, find people who accepted me for who I was even though none of us knew why I was that way. I had to find my own confidence and strength despite bullying, abuse, and zero explanation. For myself and all the other middle aged women who had to fight our way through a hostile world with no answers (just like the author), I'd like to see Harriet succeed, find her place, her strength, and her allies without a medical diagnosis and formalized support. Geek Girl is the MOST real representation of a high functioning, Autistic female teenager I've ever seen including the support and lack of support, and lack of diagnosis. I know, because she just like me (except the modeling part). It may not represent the lived experience of every Autistic person, but it certainly represents the lived experience of some of the most overlooked and undersupported of us.