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Hello, just diagnosed, and how to connect with other older autistic adults?

Martin H

Hi everyone, I just got diagnosed (last month) with ASD after 66 years. It is a bit of a shock. I’d appreciate any help about making connections with other autistic adults, preferably in my area (north of Leeds). I haven’t  had brilliant times with (non autistic) forums in the past and don’t do social media but I don’t want to rule anything out too quickly . I keep watching you tube videos and finding podcasts, looking at websites which seem relevant, to an extent, but there isn’t that much that I feel I can join in with so far.  I think it may be easier if I could find an autism group for older people who have been (very) late diagnosed, perhaps where people meet face to face?  I haven’t done that much reading of previous posts here so I apologise if there is something utterly appropriate and obvious that I have missed, mentioned already on this forum.

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  • I wish I knew. I was diagnosed last year and I'm now 61. The only autistic person I have met since diagnosis is my daughter and she was diagnosed the day after me. On investigation, I found that there was a social 'club' for autistic adults in my area limited to 30 places. Considering that my town has a population of 100,000 and that a conservative estimate of the prevalence autism is around 1%, there is a shortfall of at least 600 places (if we exclude autistic children).

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  • I wish I knew. I was diagnosed last year and I'm now 61. The only autistic person I have met since diagnosis is my daughter and she was diagnosed the day after me. On investigation, I found that there was a social 'club' for autistic adults in my area limited to 30 places. Considering that my town has a population of 100,000 and that a conservative estimate of the prevalence autism is around 1%, there is a shortfall of at least 600 places (if we exclude autistic children).

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