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A question on how you disclose your diagnosis to people

Oakling

One thing I’m trying to get to grips with is notifying people of my diagnosis where I feel it is helpful to either party. My diagnosis is a fairly recent one, but having gone 30 years without the words to describe what I’d been experiencing, I’m quite keen to talk to people about it. I feel that by recognising my diagnosis and notifying others of it, it allows me to be more forgiving of myself when I find things tough and hopefully gives people a heads up where extra patience might be needed.

One of the things I was guilty of early on was over sharing, but now I wonder if I’m too vague when telling people (I’m working on the basis of if they are interested, they’ll ask questions). 

So I suppose my question is this, if you tell people, how do you go about disclosing a diagnosis?

I’d be interested in reading your responses. 

Thanks

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  • Personally I like to walk into the room wearing a sexy chorus girl outfit with huge tail feathers on the back with the words "I'm autistic" printed on them. Serious I generally play it down unless I think it might cause an issue the person I'm telling may have to deal with later. And even then I play it down somewhat.

  • in reply to Peter

    I admire your daring outfit choice!

    But I definitely take on your point about not making a huge deal out of things. My close family and friends already know me, so it just adds to their understanding of me. The question that is left is then to do with people I’m less close to, so that’s where the idea of being low key or somewhat selective potentially comes in.

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  • in reply to Peter

    I admire your daring outfit choice!

    But I definitely take on your point about not making a huge deal out of things. My close family and friends already know me, so it just adds to their understanding of me. The question that is left is then to do with people I’m less close to, so that’s where the idea of being low key or somewhat selective potentially comes in.

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