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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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  • No it didn't occur to me until it was mentioned. I grew up and spent most of adult life not understanding why things would go so wrong for me. One example I am educated to doctoral level but could not seem to handle the 20 odd interviews I had for jobs over my career. Now the most important one will be coming in the ET tribunal. I do not know how I am going to cope.

    I just thought I was overtly shy that covered my social inadequacies. Now I understand myself a bit better (not completely) after 2 years post diagnosis and can see I was wrongly being judged and judging myself. Guess that what happens to us 'Latelings'. 

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  • No it didn't occur to me until it was mentioned. I grew up and spent most of adult life not understanding why things would go so wrong for me. One example I am educated to doctoral level but could not seem to handle the 20 odd interviews I had for jobs over my career. Now the most important one will be coming in the ET tribunal. I do not know how I am going to cope.

    I just thought I was overtly shy that covered my social inadequacies. Now I understand myself a bit better (not completely) after 2 years post diagnosis and can see I was wrongly being judged and judging myself. Guess that what happens to us 'Latelings'. 

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