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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 must admit I didn’t think I was. I always assumed autism was a severe mental or even physical disability or illness. But when the psychiatrist I saw when I was 16 had diagnosed me with GAD but then he suspected autism but I didn’t get along with him and thought he was just using me and my parents for money as we went private. It’s only as the years past I started showing more autism traits and I realised there were different levels of autism so I was lucky to get a diagnosis with psych uk on nhs but had to wait a little while. I have level 1 autism but apparently only just made the spectrum. I am ok with eye contact and I can have conversations with people if they are chatty with me, I also think I can tell when someone is bored or off in anyway as well, but I seem to be good at masking, I also won’t have certain foods due to textures or appearance etc and I am very easily triggered which can send me into meltdowns, especially if I’m making more. I find that I can look calm but I feel so irritated inside. That could be to do with other conditions I have though. 

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  • I must admit I didn’t think I was. I always assumed autism was a severe mental or even physical disability or illness. But when the psychiatrist I saw when I was 16 had diagnosed me with GAD but then he suspected autism but I didn’t get along with him and thought he was just using me and my parents for money as we went private. It’s only as the years past I started showing more autism traits and I realised there were different levels of autism so I was lucky to get a diagnosis with psych uk on nhs but had to wait a little while. I have level 1 autism but apparently only just made the spectrum. I am ok with eye contact and I can have conversations with people if they are chatty with me, I also think I can tell when someone is bored or off in anyway as well, but I seem to be good at masking, I also won’t have certain foods due to textures or appearance etc and I am very easily triggered which can send me into meltdowns, especially if I’m making more. I find that I can look calm but I feel so irritated inside. That could be to do with other conditions I have though. 

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