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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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  • I was recently diagnosed at age 62. I have spent my life studying people and trying to fit into an acceptable mould. So much so that I have lost touch with who I am.  
    Anger issues which I couldn’t seem to get a handle on and fierce frustration which has dogged me my entire life led me to wonder if autism was a possibility. I have always been a little rigid and dogmatic too which I have never liked and am always trying to work on. 
    Ive lived my life feeling lonely and weird and boring and annoying.

    My diagnosis made me cry. I grieved my past self. I am now slowly understanding myself, forgiving some of my negative traits although still doing my best to iron them out. I am beginning to live my life a little more comfortably and I give myself permission to do what I need to do to make things more comfortable for me.

    We all need to grieve but we all need to move on too. I hope you get things figured out and are able to live your life as comfortably as you possibly can.

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  • I was recently diagnosed at age 62. I have spent my life studying people and trying to fit into an acceptable mould. So much so that I have lost touch with who I am.  
    Anger issues which I couldn’t seem to get a handle on and fierce frustration which has dogged me my entire life led me to wonder if autism was a possibility. I have always been a little rigid and dogmatic too which I have never liked and am always trying to work on. 
    Ive lived my life feeling lonely and weird and boring and annoying.

    My diagnosis made me cry. I grieved my past self. I am now slowly understanding myself, forgiving some of my negative traits although still doing my best to iron them out. I am beginning to live my life a little more comfortably and I give myself permission to do what I need to do to make things more comfortable for me.

    We all need to grieve but we all need to move on too. I hope you get things figured out and are able to live your life as comfortably as you possibly can.

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