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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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  • Since I was a child, I knew that I was somehow different from my peers but neither myself or my family could figure out what it was. In fact I never knew a thing about Autism until I reached my early teens when I came across a documentary about. It intrigued me as I never taught about it in school or about what it meant but even then it never occurred to me that I was Autistic. It was only a couple of years later after that when I was in my late teens that I was officially diagnosed... and the irony is that I wasn't initially being tested for Autism it started off with me being tested for having something else. It came as a bit of a shock to my parents as it clearly never occurred to them that I was Autistic

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  • Since I was a child, I knew that I was somehow different from my peers but neither myself or my family could figure out what it was. In fact I never knew a thing about Autism until I reached my early teens when I came across a documentary about. It intrigued me as I never taught about it in school or about what it meant but even then it never occurred to me that I was Autistic. It was only a couple of years later after that when I was in my late teens that I was officially diagnosed... and the irony is that I wasn't initially being tested for Autism it started off with me being tested for having something else. It came as a bit of a shock to my parents as it clearly never occurred to them that I was Autistic

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