Hi. I’m a 42 year old man, and I took an online autism Test recently, and scored pretty high. On further research I display about 70% of the symptoms associated with autism. It was eerie seeing all my weird and unusual problems listed like that.
Struggle with eye contact, making friends, need to be alone. Fixating on things, I was told I had anxiety, depression, and social phobias in my teens. I also realised at a young age that fluorescent lights caused me to experience panic attacks. I actually left one job because of them. I had no idea that all these symptoms come under the umbrella of one condition.
I haven’t yet gone to the doctors as I’ve only been looking into it the past few days. Any advice? Is it even worth me pursuing medical advice at 42 years old?
I do seem to be a functioning autistic anyway, but I’ve never progressed in employment, and I’ve always stuck to low level jobs as I didn’t feel like I had it in me, even though my employers always try to promoted me. Plus i refuse to drive as stress makes me flustered, and I don’t want to put people at risk. Also, I’ve not had a romantic relationship in over 10 years, as that seems to be futile.
any advice from a fairly high functioning adult with similar issues?
thanks
