The pieces finally fell into place for Tyler Baltierra .

The Teen Mom alum shared he’s been diagnosed with autism, noting it answered lingering questions from his childhood.

“It felt like a big sigh of relief,” he said during the August 27 episode of their podcast Cate & Ty: Break It Down . “Then I got really sad and I was like, ‘Wow!’ I just thought about all the things I went through as a kid. I just felt so sad for that little kid who wondered, ‘What's wrong with me? Something's wrong, why am I not normal?’”

For the 33-year-old, he said it was watching his and wife Catelynn Baltierra ’s 6-year-old daughter Vaeda , and recognizing behaviors from his own childhood, that he thought to get tested.

“Just seeing so many things in Vaeda that I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I get wh

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