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Identity crisis

Michaelcangelo

Hi all, this is my first post but I've been struggling recently.

I've been diagnosed with autism for around 6 months, at age 30, after several years living as self-diagnosed. One of the biggest issues I've had since is a feeling that I have no idea what my identity is or who I am any more. 

I know a lot of this is tied to masking and I've been thinking a lot about how I've changed myself and my interests to manage in certain situations and to make an identity for myself and this has gone back to when I was a teen.

I was just wondering if/how anyone else has managed this, and got through it? It causes me a lot of stress, sadness, and inability to trust myself as I'm not sure I know who I am anymore.

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  • I did experience this, but I can’t say for how long. I didn’t think about it while I was self diagnosed for a year or so, but I did after I got my diagnosis. I wondered which bits were me, which were autism. How much if my personality was just autism? And then it disappeared. I just concluded I was me, the same person I’ve been as long as I can remember. 

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  • I did experience this, but I can’t say for how long. I didn’t think about it while I was self diagnosed for a year or so, but I did after I got my diagnosis. I wondered which bits were me, which were autism. How much if my personality was just autism? And then it disappeared. I just concluded I was me, the same person I’ve been as long as I can remember. 

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