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Autism and Getting Older

Muckworm

Hey People!

Me again, I hope you don't mind because I have another question.

Do you think as you get older your autism gets worse?

As a teenager I was really bad but then in my 20's I learned to handle it better but I'm finding that as I get older I meltdown faster, get sensory overloaded much more quickly and cope less than I used to say 10 years ago.

I seem to lose it much more often these days than I used to and I'm finding myself going out less because of it. I have seen my GP who has ruled out depression or any other mental condition so it must just be autism.

What do others think?

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  • Diagnosed at 56, which turned my whole life around. Since then, I think I've gotten better. I don't mask so much any more.  And I tell everybody. That way they know and can make their own minds up. And the ones who make their minds up in the right way are the ones I want to know. 

    My autism hasn't gotten worse.  I've just gotten better at being myself.  I like the me I am now. If others don't like it, that's their problem. Not mine.

    I'll be 60 next month.  I look forward to being a unique autistic 60-year-old.

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  • Diagnosed at 56, which turned my whole life around. Since then, I think I've gotten better. I don't mask so much any more.  And I tell everybody. That way they know and can make their own minds up. And the ones who make their minds up in the right way are the ones I want to know. 

    My autism hasn't gotten worse.  I've just gotten better at being myself.  I like the me I am now. If others don't like it, that's their problem. Not mine.

    I'll be 60 next month.  I look forward to being a unique autistic 60-year-old.

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