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Is it normal to want to be normal?

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I'm newly diagnosed as autistic and part of me still wants to be "normal".......whatever normal is. Is this normal? Any advice from anyone feeling a similar way?

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  • Yes I think that is perfectly normal. I am in my 50's and ASD was not diagnoseable when I was a kid. I desperatly spent all my life masking and trying to be normal, its exhausting.  I have a half and half brain with half of it trying to fight the autistic side and be normal. It doesn't always get right what normal should be and is oftern not taking into account that normal people, unlike me, can have empathy and emotions. I think you need to find out who you are, I still don't know, and work with that.

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  • Yes I think that is perfectly normal. I am in my 50's and ASD was not diagnoseable when I was a kid. I desperatly spent all my life masking and trying to be normal, its exhausting.  I have a half and half brain with half of it trying to fight the autistic side and be normal. It doesn't always get right what normal should be and is oftern not taking into account that normal people, unlike me, can have empathy and emotions. I think you need to find out who you are, I still don't know, and work with that.

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