Hi everyone
I have just joined the NAS. I am 61 years old and I am on the waiting list to be screened for autism. My great-nephew was diagnosed a few years ago, then my niece (his mother), my nephew and my brother, all scored highly on the test. The tests that I did showed that I may be borderline autistic or one test suggested high-functioning autism.
I had never thought about autism before but I am an alcoholic. I've been sober for 20 years now. It took me a long time to get to know the real me. In hindsight, I realise that I masked the whole time I was in high school. I have traits that I believe to be autistic. I have been single the whole time I've been sober. Now someone has come into my life but I have a true fear of intimacy (which would normally take place with alcohol). I wondered if anyone else had experience of this, and what they did to try and overcome it.