So I'm Autistic

After years of struggling through life, being bullied for being different, feeling different to everyone else, behaving differently and inappropriately sometimes, struggling with simple things that are easy to most, turns out i'm officially autistic, I had pretty much worked it out for myself already, and I'm not sure how or if it will help or hinder me to be diagnosed now at the grand age of 50.

But I'm kind of glad, it's a relief.

Parents
  • I was diagnosed as a young boy - thirty years ago - but feel that I had to paddle my own canoe; my father was killed in the Troubles in 1989, while my mum developed Motor Neurone Disease and Parkinson's simultaneously in 2003; she died in 2008.

    After ongoing trials, tears and tantrums, I can now say that faith has pulled me through.

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  • I was diagnosed as a young boy - thirty years ago - but feel that I had to paddle my own canoe; my father was killed in the Troubles in 1989, while my mum developed Motor Neurone Disease and Parkinson's simultaneously in 2003; she died in 2008.

    After ongoing trials, tears and tantrums, I can now say that faith has pulled me through.

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