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Did you receive a very late autism diagnosis/realisation?

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I thought a thread just to discuss this subject might be quite pertinent as quite a few of us on the forum are very late diagnosed/realised.

I was diagnosed at 60.

I read this article today in the BBC news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy87542l14ro

How has your diagnosis/realisation affected you?

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  • I thought I was late diagnosed at 37 but perhaps not as late as others!

    For me it helped me with accepting myself. I spent my whole life depressed and hating myself (severe hatred and self-loathing). When I look back now I realise that there wasn't anything "wrong" with me, I was doing the best I could and actually doing a pretty good job within my limitations. Over the last few months I have been learning to be less hard on myself.

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  • I thought I was late diagnosed at 37 but perhaps not as late as others!

    For me it helped me with accepting myself. I spent my whole life depressed and hating myself (severe hatred and self-loathing). When I look back now I realise that there wasn't anything "wrong" with me, I was doing the best I could and actually doing a pretty good job within my limitations. Over the last few months I have been learning to be less hard on myself.

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