Hi - Welcome aboard!

I thought I was normal too until I was diagnosed at 42.     There's very little support available to adults with a fresh diagnosis - it's of more use to people in the work environment to ask for adjustments to make their work lives more tolerable.   There is some support for carers but most support is aimed at kids and helping them while they're young and to get them through school.   Even this seems to be a postcode lottery.

It seems to be quite common for us to be labelled as depressed or having other MH problems on the route to ASD diagnosis - it must just be the way we appear to the MH people.

Some common themes seem to be a difficulty in working out the motives of other people, difficulty in social situations, rigid thinking patterns, a need for clear, concise instructions, delaying or missing out on a lot of 'normal' people's path to maturity (we tend to be still into our model trains when others have moved on to girls) and our general persona seems to get us into trouble in the work environment because of all the above.

Like you, I have CFS - and, like you, my sleep is all over the place - like being on here at 2:58am.

Have a look through the threads on here - be kind to yourself - take some time to figure yourself out and what your diagnosis means to you.

Hi - Welcome aboard!

I thought I was normal too until I was diagnosed at 42.     There's very little support available to adults with a fresh diagnosis - it's of more use to people in the work environment to ask for adjustments to make their work lives more tolerable.   There is some support for carers but most support is aimed at kids and helping them while they're young and to get them through school.   Even this seems to be a postcode lottery.

It seems to be quite common for us to be labelled as depressed or having other MH problems on the route to ASD diagnosis - it must just be the way we appear to the MH people.

Some common themes seem to be a difficulty in working out the motives of other people, difficulty in social situations, rigid thinking patterns, a need for clear, concise instructions, delaying or missing out on a lot of 'normal' people's path to maturity (we tend to be still into our model trains when others have moved on to girls) and our general persona seems to get us into trouble in the work environment because of all the above.

Like you, I have CFS - and, like you, my sleep is all over the place - like being on here at 2:58am.

Have a look through the threads on here - be kind to yourself - take some time to figure yourself out and what your diagnosis means to you.

thanks 

so reading ur reply there was 1 thing i was brill at turning in tv-video  ( pre digital ).

then retune digital tv boxes and looking and sky digital dish was line up :) .

girls tried and none looked bar 1 aged when i was 20 - married 2 kids . wife got big c 2003 is still here . 

had bowel cancer she ended with bag :( .. but bother as it so was aware of the bag so never worked me up .

working never had was on off dole . some doctor pointed out autism my age i washed it off when i was 18-20-23 etc .

just watching a programme on youtube aged 47 got me overload and ask  for a test was low on score sheet .

but the report on check all was high . ( my problems is over talking - saying the wrong words without think -

give me 10 questions . i keep going back and 2 confusing the person more and gets me worked up .

so answers are in me - wife as worked out some - kids aiso - friends from passed said u was u and we never saw nothink wrong . i asked 45 so called friends ( was passed to 1 back bleep me off and get back then ripped of again again again) 

final 

that i no the answers - and there inside so never going to no them ;-) as the parts of autism is 

autism--Refreshes the parts other autism <<beers>> cannot reach .  just 1 of the 1 lines i do lol .

thanks