You spent decades convinced the problem was you.
Wrong Planet / Right Mind is a memoir about autistic burnout, masking, and the late diagnosis that reframed everything. Written from inside the experience, not from above it.
Second revised and updated edition, 2026.
The book contains 23 chapters not available on Medium or Substack. This is the complete account, written in sequence, from the first suspicion to the diagnosis and everything that followed.
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What you'll find inside:
Autistic burnout described from within, thirty years before anyone gave it a name. The mechanics of masking: how a system built to keep you functional dismantles you from the inside. A late diagnosis at forty-eight, and the specific cognitive architecture that made every earlier answer wrong.
A precise account of a life that made sense only backwards. No recovery arc, no redemption framework.
Christian Gajewski has spent nearly thirty years in surgical environments, first in the Italian military, then at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, now at Hospital Vithas Lleida in Catalonia. Diagnosed autistic at forty-eight, with strong indicators of ADHD under evaluation.
Wrong Planet / Right Mind is written from inside that biography, with the same precision he applies in the operating room.
Also available in:
Edizione italiana, Pianeta Sbagliato / Mente Giusta
Edición española, Planeta Incorrecto / Mente Precisa
Edició catalana, Planeta Erroni / Ment Lúcida