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Recently diagnosed at 67 looking to make friends

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Hi there this is my first time posting on here.My name is Gary and I am 67 years old feeling quite isolated and looking for new connections friends

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  • Hi Gary, I accepted my diagnosis around 70.  I was diagnosed when I went to university at age 30. I got rid of that label - I will have to compete in the job market later. I was lucky.  I spent most of my working life in foreign countries, mainly Asia, where I was not expected to fit in. I studied at Imperial College London where the emphasis (then) was working day and night to get the degree and not socialising or joining things. Then aged 70, exhausted, OK, I don't pretend any more, I have autism, I am not able to have free conversations etc.  I announced this to the people I meet almost daily in the doggy park. I was amazed, they said they knew and so what?  Probably for the first time in my life I was relaxed and at ease with myself.

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  • Hi Gary, I accepted my diagnosis around 70.  I was diagnosed when I went to university at age 30. I got rid of that label - I will have to compete in the job market later. I was lucky.  I spent most of my working life in foreign countries, mainly Asia, where I was not expected to fit in. I studied at Imperial College London where the emphasis (then) was working day and night to get the degree and not socialising or joining things. Then aged 70, exhausted, OK, I don't pretend any more, I have autism, I am not able to have free conversations etc.  I announced this to the people I meet almost daily in the doggy park. I was amazed, they said they knew and so what?  Probably for the first time in my life I was relaxed and at ease with myself.

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