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Why sm i so angry that i was diagnosed as an adult and not when i was younger

fernminion95

i was diagnosed at 29 with autism, i have reached the anger stage of acceptance, i am not sure why i am so angry i think it is because if i was diagnosed earlier i may of received the help i needed at school and people would of treated me differently instead of bullying me, i went my whole life being bullied for being different, i also have fibromyalgia now so that doesn't help, i struggle to make friends i just keep myself to myself and do my work, does anyone have any advice, how did you feel when you were diagnosed later on in life. 

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  • I felt relieved, so many things just fell into place, I couldn't have been diagnosed in childhood as Autism wasn't recognised and even then was thought to be very rare and it only happened to boys, something I think that still plagues women today.

    I have fibromyalgia too.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    xx when i was first diagnosed i felt relieved but then angry all at once, im struggling to make friends and go out for coffee with people that want to spend time with me, im in allot of pain all the time and i just feel if i was diagnosed 10 years ago i would be a different person but io guess all these years of masking didnt help either  

  • in reply to fernminion95

    Like Cat Woman, I also couldn't have been diagnosed as a child as I didn't realise I was on the spectrum until I was in my fifties and there is no help for us older people who have managed to get by all our lives.

    It may be that the pain you are suffering is causing anger too, sometimes life just doesn't seem fair. Is there anything the medical profession can do to help with that?

    Just try to be yourself, you may have to work out what that is, but you'll get there.

    Take care of yourself.

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  • in reply to fernminion95

    Like Cat Woman, I also couldn't have been diagnosed as a child as I didn't realise I was on the spectrum until I was in my fifties and there is no help for us older people who have managed to get by all our lives.

    It may be that the pain you are suffering is causing anger too, sometimes life just doesn't seem fair. Is there anything the medical profession can do to help with that?

    Just try to be yourself, you may have to work out what that is, but you'll get there.

    Take care of yourself.

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