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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 didn't think about it until my fifties when a few work colleagues said they are autistic and there were a couple of talks about autism at work, so I became aware of the thing. Nobody suggested it to me; people seemed to assume that since I'm Finnish it's natural that I don't speak a lot (in reality Finns tend to speak as much as Brits if not more). I started suspecting that I might be autistic and took a few online tests which all gave me high scores. So I strongly suspected it before the assessment.

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  • I didn't think about it until my fifties when a few work colleagues said they are autistic and there were a couple of talks about autism at work, so I became aware of the thing. Nobody suggested it to me; people seemed to assume that since I'm Finnish it's natural that I don't speak a lot (in reality Finns tend to speak as much as Brits if not more). I started suspecting that I might be autistic and took a few online tests which all gave me high scores. So I strongly suspected it before the assessment.

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  • in reply to mavu

    This is interesting I did not suspect it myself. It was my friend (also recently diagnosed) said to me something along we were very similar or our brain work similar or something which made me stop for a minute. I always like the initial writer thought I was normal just with a bit of a quirk but that what I was experience everyone experience or so I thought. But I also was deemed a bit different in the UK coming originally from Germany a bit more frank and to the point I got away with it and again fitted the steroetype of the 'normal German'. No I am diagnosed I feed like they got it wrong yet the more I read about the more I am slowly untangling this mess which is my head right now.