Did you think you were autistic before someone suggested it?

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 absolutely no clue. I always knew I was different and later I got diagnosed with all kinds of mental health conditions none of which really seemed to fit and noone really seemed to get me but I never suspected. Even when it was first suggested I was very skeptical as I didn’t know anything about autism except some stereotypes and I was tired of diagnoses at this point and it just felt like it would be the next useless label in a long list of labels that I had acquired. But when I started researching autism and connecting to other autistic individuals it started to make so so much sense and I am extremely grateful to the person who first pointed out that I might be autistic 

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  • I had absolutely no clue. I always knew I was different and later I got diagnosed with all kinds of mental health conditions none of which really seemed to fit and noone really seemed to get me but I never suspected. Even when it was first suggested I was very skeptical as I didn’t know anything about autism except some stereotypes and I was tired of diagnoses at this point and it just felt like it would be the next useless label in a long list of labels that I had acquired. But when I started researching autism and connecting to other autistic individuals it started to make so so much sense and I am extremely grateful to the person who first pointed out that I might be autistic 

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