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Would your life have been different if you’d been diagnosed earlier?

NAS76602

Hello all,

Like a lot on here I was diagnosed later on in life, in my fifties and fairly recently. My daughter asked me if my life would have been different and would I go back and change it if I could. 

I had to think about this, and I’m still trying to work it out. My initial answer is yes I really do wish I’d have been diagnosed earlier and had educational plans in place and maybe not bullied as much and gotten my degrees a few years earlier than I did. 

BUT……

Im ok with who I am, and maybe my struggles are what made me who I am and maybe without struggles I’d not have built the resilience I have. 

I thought it was a good question. Do you guys wish you’d have been diagnosed earlier on in life? And if so would your life have been different to how it is now?

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  • I've had a lot of problems of concentration and motivation for a while. I was enrolled in university to do a ph.d in computer science, which I spent like 11 years doing (or more like claiming to do) before the department kicked me out for unsatisfactory progress. And I wasn't really doing anything else of great value career wise while doing that.

    So I guess the question is how much they can help me with this if and when I get my diagnosis. If it's something that can be resolved with the right counselling then I could easily be 10-15 years more advanced in my career right now had I got such treatment earlier in my life, and probably could have completed the phd in that case. 

    I am also obese, and suspect this is largely to do with a lack of sensitivity to hunger and satiety triggers, as well as an extremely habit-driven food regime. 

    It sucks to think about this, a viable treatment 20 years ago could have changed my life beyond any recognition, but perhaps that's over-estimating what knowing about the diagnosis would achieve.

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  • I've had a lot of problems of concentration and motivation for a while. I was enrolled in university to do a ph.d in computer science, which I spent like 11 years doing (or more like claiming to do) before the department kicked me out for unsatisfactory progress. And I wasn't really doing anything else of great value career wise while doing that.

    So I guess the question is how much they can help me with this if and when I get my diagnosis. If it's something that can be resolved with the right counselling then I could easily be 10-15 years more advanced in my career right now had I got such treatment earlier in my life, and probably could have completed the phd in that case. 

    I am also obese, and suspect this is largely to do with a lack of sensitivity to hunger and satiety triggers, as well as an extremely habit-driven food regime. 

    It sucks to think about this, a viable treatment 20 years ago could have changed my life beyond any recognition, but perhaps that's over-estimating what knowing about the diagnosis would achieve.

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