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Coming to terms with realising you are probably autistic

Ultramarine

Hi,

Sorry I've been posting on here such a lot recently.  I was just wondering if anyone can relate to this.

Did you find it hard to come to terms with, when you first realised you might be autistic?  I haven't yet been diagnosed, but I'm becoming more and more sure that I am autistic, the more I find out about autism and recognise the signs in myself.

I'm finding that it's very hard for me to concentrate on work at the moment, and I'm just feeling upset, tense and unsettled.  Also really anxious.

I don't know if this is normal or if anyone else experienced this when you were at a similar stage?

I don't know if I should try to fight it and carry on as normal, or give myself a bit of slack and try to rest a bit more when I can.

Parents

  • Its a mixed feeling, on one hand its nice to have a better understanding of why I feel and do the things I do but also one of frustration, thinking back to the way I was perceived by others, being labeled "naughty" as a child, shouted at by various people throughout my life, particually at school. I feel a lot of my mental health issues and trauma could have been avoided with earlier diagnosis which makes me quite sad.

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  • Its a mixed feeling, on one hand its nice to have a better understanding of why I feel and do the things I do but also one of frustration, thinking back to the way I was perceived by others, being labeled "naughty" as a child, shouted at by various people throughout my life, particually at school. I feel a lot of my mental health issues and trauma could have been avoided with earlier diagnosis which makes me quite sad.

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  • in reply to NAS74317

    Hello,

    I'm really sorry to hear that you've had lots of difficult experiences and that you didn't have the answer you needed until later on.  It sounds like people really misunderstood you and didn't see you for who you really were. Thanks a lot for being open and sharing honestly how you feel about your experience of diagnosis.