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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 had occasionally wondered, when I read things about autism, but I think that subconsciously it seemed a bit like a convenient excuse to explain my problems. I felt so different that something like autism couldn't be the answer. It was too simple.

    Then my brother, quite a few years ago, told me that he thought he was autistic and wondered if I was too. I gave it a little bit of thought, did some tests, which said I was and then decided, again, nah, that probably isn't it. No idea why!

    A few more years went by, I read Pierre Novellie's book, did a load more online tests which confirmed it again and the penny finally dropped. It all seems so blindingly obvious now that I can't understand why it took me so long. It has enabled me to see it in my son also.

  • in reply to McFrost
    McFrost said:
    It all seems so blindingly obvious now that I can't understand why it took me so long

    I think it was the lack of availability of first-hand accounts by Autistic people (or at least my lack of awareness that such accounts existed) that was the reason for my late "coming out". I was like Martin with the whole Rain Man or kid-in-a-corner understanding of Autism. I simply didn't relate until I found the voices of people to whom I could relate and then it all just clicked.

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  • in reply to McFrost
    McFrost said:
    It all seems so blindingly obvious now that I can't understand why it took me so long

    I think it was the lack of availability of first-hand accounts by Autistic people (or at least my lack of awareness that such accounts existed) that was the reason for my late "coming out". I was like Martin with the whole Rain Man or kid-in-a-corner understanding of Autism. I simply didn't relate until I found the voices of people to whom I could relate and then it all just clicked.

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