It's ok to ask for help

So, not posted or checked the forum in a bit.  Seen a few posts today from late diagnosed or people struggling at work, so maybe this post is relevant maybe not, I don't know.  For those who don't know, I'm late diagnosed in January (early 50s) and last week I had an occupational health assessment, which wasn't brilliant but basically agreed to most of what I was asking. 

Today feels like a good day for two reasons:

1) After the assessment, I felt with a bit of encouragement from my manager, able to order a noise cancelling headset to use when I'm in the office, I took a bit of convincing that the expense was justified.  It arrived this morning.  I already feel like it's a game changer, there weren't too many people in but it cut out all the background noise of people talking about cricket or whatever, I could focus on the call I was on and what I wanted to do.  Next step is for them to give me a fixed desk so I don't have to hot desk.

2) On a personal level, having put off re-arranging tickets for something I want to see for the past week as it involved needing to ring someone up, I let a friend who offered a second time to do it,  actually do it and within 15 mins, they had sorted the whole thing for me.

So, sounds daft as I've never liked to ask for help, thinking I was being demanding, high maintenance or awkward and I needed to be totally independent.  However, today after asking for help with my work environment and a friend offering to help which I accepted, I think I need to not struggle with a whole bunch of stuff when there are people out there who can and will help.