Kaelynn Partlow

About

Kaelynn Partlow (born April 2, 1997) is an American autistic television personality, self-advocate, applied behavior analysis (ABA) paraprofessional and social media content creator.
She appeared on season 1 of Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum.

Partlow was born on April 2, 1997 in Greenville, South Carolina. She has one sister and one brother.
She was diagnosed with the now-defunct autism subtype Asperger syndrome, ADHD, dyslexia and dyscalculia at 10 years old after undergoing extensive academic and psychological testing in Orlando, Florida. According to Partlow, her parents did not formally explain to her what Asperger syndrome was until she was 13. Due to her struggles with dyslexia, she did not read her first book independently until she was 14 years old.
Throughout her childhood, Partlow attended and tried a variety of different kinds of schooling. She started with attending a public school, then a private Christian school and was later homeschooled and unschooled by her mom. She has said that she felt that none of them seemed to fit. When she was 13 years old, she joined a private school program run by the nonprofit autism service provider Project…