Published on 12, July, 2020
I am 57 female and have been diagnosed with autism level 1, my psychiatrist also practically told me I have adhd too but need to have a separate assessment to fully diagnose adhd. I have an awful lot of traits. This is all come as a shock because all my life I've been struggling to get by in general, and feeling different from everyone else. Has anyone else been diagnosed late in life too?
For those of us diagnosed later in life with autism there does need to be specialist support and/or intervention, like what used to happen with the priests and the nuns years ago - many believe that people with autism should not be allowed to live alone without a live-in carer or support, but this needs to be established via a post-diagnostic assessment - maybe religious organisations could be contacted with a view to be trained by autism experts in how best to conduct these post-diagnostic assessments and later, to provide that support after further training - if we don’t have post diagnostic assessment , how on earth are we supposed to know what our support needs are?