Help and advise needed.

advise = (verb) provide guidance

I hope you can advise me on what to do. 

advice = (noun) guidance

I hope you can offer me some advice.

Sorry to begin with that but grammar, punctuation and spelling mistakes are like huge blaring sirens to me.

Anyway, yes. I have just turned 50. And have lived 49 years without even the hint of suspicion that I was autistic (Aspergic). I think many people with Aspergers, like myself, go undetected throughout our lives because most of us are able to get along with relatively little difficulty. We might be labelled as odd, eccentric or trouble-makers, but we are also very good at masking any traits that might be considered too odd to the average person.

I would say that people with more profound autism are identified much sooner as they require more support and are not as self-aware or susceptible to societal conditioning.

That said, us Aspies can still benefit from understanding our condition and making adjustments and adaptations in our lives to make us more comfortable.

As Soctates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."

We can all benefit from questioning our own stagnant minds, identifying our entrenched habits and investigating our outdated beliefs about ourselves and the world regardless of our neurotype.

Sadly, it seems that neurodiverse folk are less likely to be aware of their own social programming than their neurotypical brothers and sisters. I expected the opposite to be true. Maybe our brains are less flexible, and so we can't break free from our learned behaviours and thinking patterns. 

advise = (verb) provide guidance

I hope you can advise me on what to do. 

advice = (noun) guidance

I hope you can offer me some advice.

Sorry to begin with that but grammar, punctuation and spelling mistakes are like huge blaring sirens to me.

Anyway, yes. I have just turned 50. And have lived 49 years without even the hint of suspicion that I was autistic (Aspergic). I think many people with Aspergers, like myself, go undetected throughout our lives because most of us are able to get along with relatively little difficulty. We might be labelled as odd, eccentric or trouble-makers, but we are also very good at masking any traits that might be considered too odd to the average person.

I would say that people with more profound autism are identified much sooner as they require more support and are not as self-aware or susceptible to societal conditioning.

That said, us Aspies can still benefit from understanding our condition and making adjustments and adaptations in our lives to make us more comfortable.

As Soctates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."

We can all benefit from questioning our own stagnant minds, identifying our entrenched habits and investigating our outdated beliefs about ourselves and the world regardless of our neurotype.

Sadly, it seems that neurodiverse folk are less likely to be aware of their own social programming than their neurotypical brothers and sisters. I expected the opposite to be true. Maybe our brains are less flexible, and so we can't break free from our learned behaviours and thinking patterns.