My story Falling Sea is, at its root, a story about a girl whose home and life has been uprooted, she’s suddenly given all this responsibility, and is depended on as an adult though she’s only 16.
The sequel Bound Wings, is about a life that a woman is happy living, but others from her old life have found her, and she must play a villain she has never been. She knows she will die on this path, but can’t get out.
The final is about a boy who was given the role of an adult as a child, 7 or so, and took that as a fact. He must choose between found family and friends or his future, and blood.
All my stories have a bit of me in them, I matured early on, and have moved across the country. I changed my name used in high school, but I’m reminded of my deadname too much, too many times. I was diagnosed with autism, and so much changed in a few years.
I guess what I’m saying is, write what you know, it may not seem like you’re writing like that, but you are. My stories are sci-fi, on another planet, fighting an intergalactic war, or a civil one, but I still see my story in them.