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'We grew up not knowing we were autistic.'

Endymion

I found this link at the bottom of an article posted a link to (on the thread 'Autism In The News. Good For A Change'). Just thought I'd post it here in case it was missed as I found it very helpful to read. It's several short personal stories from women of all ages who were diagnosed with AS in adulthood, discussing some of the difficulties that led them to seek a diagnosis and what it has meant to them since then.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/women_late_diagnosis_autism

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  • Endymion said:
    something of an explosion of interest in autism this month
    Endymion said:
    recent publicity highlighting autism.

    ...This sounds quite exciting. Please specify where all of that is, Thank You.

  • in reply to Disambiguating Cynosure

    The Channel 4 programme (on Wednesday) is being advertised a good bit and the BBC appear to have links to a few autism stories this month, the two mentioned above for a start. It's certainly better publicity than previously. It was also just earlier this month that there was a lot of talk about reviewing PIP guidelines to take account of AS, and I heard a news story shortly after that about disability parking permits being extended to those diagnosed with autism. That seems like an explosion of interest to me although, to be fair, I perhaps didn't notice such stories so much before my own diagnosis.    

  • in reply to Endymion

    Endymion thank you so much for posting the link to the women’s stories.

    I really get upset that even now females are diagnosed using Male orientated criteria, ok there is more understanding of female traits presenting differently to males but still no big change in the main arena for females.

    here is a link to information regarding the hidden females on the spectrum.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040731/

     It seems more awareness is being shared by social media, I can only hope that as more famous people talk about their own experiences it will be more accepted as a difference not a disorder or defect.

    It needs to be highlighted how many great things have only come about due to individuals with  Aspergers. It shouldn’t be that way but Highlighting anything using celebrities these days gets a wider audience,

    thank you and take care all.

    x()x

  • in reply to LimaMikeSquared

    Sorry, it took me a minute to decode that because of the way the threads here are loaded: for a minute I thought you were asking me to ring the supplier of my personality type! 

    No, it's not a fault with my internet supplier I'm afraid. We don't have a choice of suppliers up here, it's BT's 1980's snail-pace (no fancy fibre optic for us) or nothing. We chose nothing and got a satellite connection instead. It gives us speeds like the modern world but only until our usage limit is reached then it's back to the 1980's again. It's fine, at the end of the month I get another 10-GB and start all over again. Oh the trials of island life!    : )     

  • in reply to Endymion

    Doesn't sound right - maybe ring your supplier? There could be a fault in the line somewhere. 

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  • in reply to LimaMikeSquared

    Sorry, it took me a minute to decode that because of the way the threads here are loaded: for a minute I thought you were asking me to ring the supplier of my personality type! 

    No, it's not a fault with my internet supplier I'm afraid. We don't have a choice of suppliers up here, it's BT's 1980's snail-pace (no fancy fibre optic for us) or nothing. We chose nothing and got a satellite connection instead. It gives us speeds like the modern world but only until our usage limit is reached then it's back to the 1980's again. It's fine, at the end of the month I get another 10-GB and start all over again. Oh the trials of island life!    : )