Published on 12, July, 2020
I've been diagnosed 24 years now.Follow up question:Do you feel that you understand your own Autism?
Wow mate. You probably should have been diagnosed around the same time I was! Good on the county of Wiltshire for finally handing you your diagnosis.
Great answer Martin.It's definitely somewhat relieving for us to know why we are, the way we are.
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.
Since May 2019. It only happened because I moved from Essex to Wiltshire to be near my daughter. I first entertained the possibility there was more going on than SMI a few years after going online in 1996. Voiced my belief to the psych team a few years later. Was ignored. Persisted, and was regarded as a bad patient. Moved to Wiltshire in Sept 2017. Was assessed and diagnosed with Asperger's 7 months after my 1st psych appointment in Wiltshire.I understand my own autism more than how it fits in with other people who are autistic. I have great difficulty identifying with autistic 'personalities' on YouTube, and to a lesser degree autistic persons on X.
3 years diagnosed.
I think I understand it very well now and often pause what I'm doing to think how much my autism is affecting what I do in relation to others around me.
That's great to read.
Feel free to PM me ,if you want to ask any questions.
Neurotypicals may never fully understand it. They'd have to take an interest first.
It's very very complex. I still don't fully understand Autism.
me 3 months and yes I do but other people don't in answer to the 2 big questions
I've been diagnosed for 4 months, I don't feel like I understand my Autism yet, I'm still trying to come to terms with it,
About two months. I'm not good at time, but earlier this year.
I've learned some. There is much much more that I don't understand.
1. Zero years, as I decided not to go for formal diagnosis. I realised it about 7 or 8 years ago.
2. Yes. I know myself now and what makes me react the way I do to certain things.