How long have you been diagnosed?

I've been diagnosed 24 years now.

Follow up question:

Do you feel that you understand your own Autism?

Parents
  • Three years, and yes autism has answered the questions I had about my 'peculiarities'. I thought for the entirety of my life before realising that I was autistic, that my problems and quirks were purely personal. I was just strange in a particularistic sense and no-one else was at all like me. 

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  • Three years, and yes autism has answered the questions I had about my 'peculiarities'. I thought for the entirety of my life before realising that I was autistic, that my problems and quirks were purely personal. I was just strange in a particularistic sense and no-one else was at all like me. 

Children