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Wish I’d known

NAS71122

Hi 

I’m now in my 50’s and have had an extremely hard life and have been very unsupported. 

i had bad health which has affected every part of my life, I didn’t attend school much which is why I fell through the cracks. 


my family didn’t really care and ignored my difficulties and pretty much laughed at my quirks (as did others)

ive not been able to hold down jobs and have found many things too hard and painful. 

Being given a diagnosis wouldn’t help me now but it would have made such a difference to me in so many ways. Everything would have been so different for me than it is now. 


I've been so wronged and this feeling just doesn’t go away. People don’t care and I’ve been told many times to just stop concentrating on it but it’s impossible. 

I’ve been so failed despite how hard I’ve tried to thrive, I’ve tried to find help so often but it’s been ignored and I’ve been fobbed off or told I just need to be more positive, stop complaining, be tougher and not so soft  Just be different, it’s not that hard be an adult.

Thank you  

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  • Hello

    I'm sorry to hear about your experiences with family, friends, psychiatrist and at work. I'm glad that you're here amongst supportive people. My husband has a diagnosis of autism and I've been introduced to a lovely neurodiverse world that I feel really accepted in. But the past still hurts. Like other people have written, it could be good to have counselling, cognitive behaviour therapy and treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and hopefully your GP and psychological therapies services will want to help. And some organisations support people without a diagnosis of autism :-)

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  • Hello

    I'm sorry to hear about your experiences with family, friends, psychiatrist and at work. I'm glad that you're here amongst supportive people. My husband has a diagnosis of autism and I've been introduced to a lovely neurodiverse world that I feel really accepted in. But the past still hurts. Like other people have written, it could be good to have counselling, cognitive behaviour therapy and treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and hopefully your GP and psychological therapies services will want to help. And some organisations support people without a diagnosis of autism :-)

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