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Did you think you were autistic before someone suggested it?

Stuart333

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 really didn’t see it in myself in any serious way, I figured that for reasons unknown it was just how I functioned. Sure I felt different and couldn’t fit into groups but I always made excuses like I’m tired or just not feeling it today or I’m an introvert and nothing more. I wouldn’t even suspect autism when I felt uncomfortable and possibly even angry that someone was trying to interfere or change the plans I’d made for myself. I had a lot of signs but never linked them to anything other than a habitual way of being. I still have imposter syndrome that comes in waves, I am not what I believed autism to be. Perhaps I really am still under educated about it. 

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  • I really didn’t see it in myself in any serious way, I figured that for reasons unknown it was just how I functioned. Sure I felt different and couldn’t fit into groups but I always made excuses like I’m tired or just not feeling it today or I’m an introvert and nothing more. I wouldn’t even suspect autism when I felt uncomfortable and possibly even angry that someone was trying to interfere or change the plans I’d made for myself. I had a lot of signs but never linked them to anything other than a habitual way of being. I still have imposter syndrome that comes in waves, I am not what I believed autism to be. Perhaps I really am still under educated about it. 

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