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Stayathomemum
11 months ago

Hi,

So I haven’t been assessed, I just have this feeling that I am autistic. Everything I have read about autism makes sense for me. I have always felt different to other people. Like there has always been something ‘wrong’ with me or something wrong with my ‘brain’. I have been bullied, made fun of and I have never really understood myself, who i am as a person. My sister got assessed and got told she has ADHD and for some reason that made me think about me and if I have a special need/learning difficulty. 

i am just posting on here just to see if anyone else has felt the same way or if i am going completely crazy. How did you know you were autistic? Did it run in your family?

my anxiety has got really bad. It is affecting my eating habits and waiting 2 years is going to be super hard!

thank you so much in advance! 

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  • 11 months ago

    Hi and welcome, 

    You’re not faulty, neurodivergent brains are just wired differently, anxiety and autism unfortunately do seem to exist together, start looking at which situations cause you anxiety, I found the waiting time at first very hard to cope with, that wait in the end was how long I needed to process quite a few decades.

    If you live in England you can ask your GP for Right to Choose, the NHS will fund a private assessment, this could bring the wait down to months. I always thought I was the only person in the world who functions like me, to find  out there are many who are similar to me was actually amazing. I started to not feel so alone.

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  • 11 months ago

    Hi and welcome, 

    You’re not faulty, neurodivergent brains are just wired differently, anxiety and autism unfortunately do seem to exist together, start looking at which situations cause you anxiety, I found the waiting time at first very hard to cope with, that wait in the end was how long I needed to process quite a few decades.

    If you live in England you can ask your GP for Right to Choose, the NHS will fund a private assessment, this could bring the wait down to months. I always thought I was the only person in the world who functions like me, to find  out there are many who are similar to me was actually amazing. I started to not feel so alone.

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