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Being me

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In my head the narrative was there to keep me 'fitting in' 'you need to be ' ' you need to do ' . You should do this or that. You shouldn't do that or not one will like you. Mostly from my wonderful mum who adopted me. She did it she got me so I could be and do all that and because of these wonderful brains we have I've achieved done and contributed loads, still do still work 2 days. Have great kids and grand kids.

But great joy I don't have to be anything but me now and that's happened since I semi retired probably why I finally got autistic spectrum diagnosis at 70 which fitted the jigsaw puzzle in  such a relief really

Does anyone else feel freed by finally knowing its autism that makes u unique?

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  • Freed in a way, but also not, as I still have to live in and engage with the neurotypical world, being as I am married to a neurotypical person, have kids at school and am still working. I have dreamed about retirement pretty much since the day I started working! That would definitely free me up to do more of what interests me.

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    McFrost said:
    I have dreamed about retirement pretty much since the day I started working! That would definitely free me up to do more of what interests me

    I did this about 2 years ago (in my mid 50s) and wow - what an improvement.

    I've never felt happier in my life and find I can now do all the things I have been longing to do for decades but wasn't able to do because of work / partner / location / money etc.

    Most of what I love to do is inexpensive or actually ends up making me money so that helps.

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    McFrost said:
    I have dreamed about retirement pretty much since the day I started working! That would definitely free me up to do more of what interests me

    I did this about 2 years ago (in my mid 50s) and wow - what an improvement.

    I've never felt happier in my life and find I can now do all the things I have been longing to do for decades but wasn't able to do because of work / partner / location / money etc.

    Most of what I love to do is inexpensive or actually ends up making me money so that helps.

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