Did you think you were autistic before someone suggested it?

I'm curious whether you can see it in yourself. I thought I was right and everyone else was wrong.

I suspected I was different, but squashed it, I was just extra normal. I couldn't figure out why I was confused and had bouts of depression,

I just wanted to know what was holding me back, why I had some atypical depression, and whether there was something up with how I communicated.

But there was no need for an autism test. I wasn't autistic surely.

Except the psychologists thought otherwise, 3 of them. I even argued with them, a sign in itself probably.

So did you guess, before someone suggested a screening test? Maybe the internet makes it more likely these days, but you need a reason to go looking.

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  • I figured out I was probably ADHD when I was 30. I went for a diagnosis. The result: ADHD + Autism. That surprised me enough that I didn't believe the Autism bit for another 20+ years. I wasn't Rain Man, after all, and that was about all I knew about Autism. It makes a lot of sense to me now, though. I just wish all the information available today was available back then, too.

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  • I figured out I was probably ADHD when I was 30. I went for a diagnosis. The result: ADHD + Autism. That surprised me enough that I didn't believe the Autism bit for another 20+ years. I wasn't Rain Man, after all, and that was about all I knew about Autism. It makes a lot of sense to me now, though. I just wish all the information available today was available back then, too.

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