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more or less 2 months since my late diagnosis.  is it wrong to wonder why i bothered, yes now i have a formal diagnosis but  has it has changed much.  im still struggling to manage, still not getting the support i need and still feeling like im on the wrong planet.  i dont know what i expected if anything but i guess i was hoping things would feel easier.  knowing im autistic doesnt change the world around me and how i struggle with it and its making me feel low.   anyone else felt the same after late diagnosis

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  • It is a sad state of affairs that there is little or no meaningful support after a late diagnosis. You now have on one hand the information of who you are and why *** happened in your life. On the other hand it is almost as if you now are teleported to different world knowing you are different but that society as a whole does not care. Hence the tag of being a 'Lateling'

    I was relieved to find out I was not broken but the post diagnosis events have almost broke me. I ask for help at work, was refused effectively ending my career in my fifties. I am now in the process of an employment tribunal claim against my employers.

    Sometimes I wish for the ignorance of not knowing and be back to doing the career that I always wanted to do since I left school, which now has been so cruelly taken from me because I am autistic and dared to ask for reasonable adjustments.

    It is such a heavy burden to carry on especially in todays' economic climate.

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  • It is a sad state of affairs that there is little or no meaningful support after a late diagnosis. You now have on one hand the information of who you are and why *** happened in your life. On the other hand it is almost as if you now are teleported to different world knowing you are different but that society as a whole does not care. Hence the tag of being a 'Lateling'

    I was relieved to find out I was not broken but the post diagnosis events have almost broke me. I ask for help at work, was refused effectively ending my career in my fifties. I am now in the process of an employment tribunal claim against my employers.

    Sometimes I wish for the ignorance of not knowing and be back to doing the career that I always wanted to do since I left school, which now has been so cruelly taken from me because I am autistic and dared to ask for reasonable adjustments.

    It is such a heavy burden to carry on especially in todays' economic climate.

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