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Just diagnosed yesterday.

Morganna Le Faye

Hi,

Yesterday I was diagnosed with level 1 autism spectum.  I'm 45. Female.  And although the diagnosis doesn't suprise me - I had figured it out, and took myself for testing.   I find myself sad for my younger self, and frankly angry at all those folks who could, and perhaps should, have spotted something when I was a child. I have just one life, and I've spent 45 years feeling that I was somehow failing, when all I needed was someone to recognise neurodivergence. 

Anyone else feel this way?

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  • OMG! Absolutely! I'm 61 but it never occured to me that I might be autistic until I watched the chris Packham documentary. I've always thought I was super organised, structured, and couldn't see why other people didn't live like me where everything is planned, preventing unexpeced things happening.

    Having read and researched massively (and yes, probably obsessively) since then, it is SO clear to me, from scratching a nail with a nail, to rocking, to being hypermobile, to being able to run a small country on my own (so long as people aren't involved!), that I am a high functioning autistic woman. When I asked the people that matter to me what they thought, they all agreed that I was and was surprised that it had NEVER occured to me.

    I could be distressed that I have wasted 61 years of my life trying to fit in (and failing miserably), or I could shout it from the rooftops, and anyone who isn't supportive and doesn't make allowances can swivel. I feel that for the first time in my life, that everything makes complete, total and utter sense!

    Embrace it Morganna you have an other 40 hears to live your life as YOU!

  • in reply to friendoffelines

      Hats off to you for such a great attitude!  Love it! 

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