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JT

There are lots of great threads on here about struggles we all have. But I wondered if anyone would be willing to give specific examples of things they feel they got 'wrong', full disclosure, that reflect perfectly the traits you endure day to day that juxtapose with a NT world?

I feel we protect ourselves a lot, and perhaps exhibit a shared form of 'forum masking' in some ways...

...for those undiagnosed, this could be the differential they need?

Respect in advance Pray

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  • As somebody who has only found they are probably Autistic 18 months ago I think I have learnt where I screwed up. I have learnt not to be hard on myself about things I did in my past. i now know why I utterly failed at relationships in my teens and 20's, but have been married for 15 years. I know my limits when it comes to work and not pushing myself to bet a better job. I have to be satisfied with what I have . I do wonder what my life had been life it I had been diagnosed as a child. Back then I would have probably been sent to the local 'special school' and the stigma of that in the 70's and 80's was massive. Who knows if it might have helped me? At school I was very much the average kid with no visible issues. The subjects I was really good at outweighed the ones I was very bad at, with no much in the middle.

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  • As somebody who has only found they are probably Autistic 18 months ago I think I have learnt where I screwed up. I have learnt not to be hard on myself about things I did in my past. i now know why I utterly failed at relationships in my teens and 20's, but have been married for 15 years. I know my limits when it comes to work and not pushing myself to bet a better job. I have to be satisfied with what I have . I do wonder what my life had been life it I had been diagnosed as a child. Back then I would have probably been sent to the local 'special school' and the stigma of that in the 70's and 80's was massive. Who knows if it might have helped me? At school I was very much the average kid with no visible issues. The subjects I was really good at outweighed the ones I was very bad at, with no much in the middle.

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