Feeling so alone with late diagnosis

I understand there is a lot to cope with when receiving a diagnosis. A lot of people report denial or grief knowing their lives might not be the way they planned, but if you embrace it, people will love you for the real you. Neurodiversity is being talked about more and more, people are coming to understand, accept and make accommodations in places like work and events.

I spent so many years in denial about mine, ten years to be exact, yet now I've come to embrace it my life has changed for the better. I look back now and wish I'd been honest with people, told them about my diagnosis instead of tried to hide it, because now I'm faced with a load of people who don't know the real me. 

My advice would be to research, find out as much as you can about autism and try to relate it to yourself. The more you find out, the more it makes sense the reason why things might happen the way they do. For example, I was trying to pay for food today and three people were talking to me at once. I asked them to stop because it was too much information, to which they did. Before I would've tried to battle through that situation because I never understood why it was so difficult to process it all. Once you understand yourself, you can advocate for yourself.

I understand there is a lot to cope with when receiving a diagnosis. A lot of people report denial or grief knowing their lives might not be the way they planned, but if you embrace it, people will love you for the real you. Neurodiversity is being talked about more and more, people are coming to understand, accept and make accommodations in places like work and events.

I spent so many years in denial about mine, ten years to be exact, yet now I've come to embrace it my life has changed for the better. I look back now and wish I'd been honest with people, told them about my diagnosis instead of tried to hide it, because now I'm faced with a load of people who don't know the real me. 

My advice would be to research, find out as much as you can about autism and try to relate it to yourself. The more you find out, the more it makes sense the reason why things might happen the way they do. For example, I was trying to pay for food today and three people were talking to me at once. I asked them to stop because it was too much information, to which they did. Before I would've tried to battle through that situation because I never understood why it was so difficult to process it all. Once you understand yourself, you can advocate for yourself.