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Beginning Adult Diagnosis Odyssey at 44 - interested to hear other's experiences navigating this winding path in middle-life.

Quietdude

Burnout and depression led to therapy, leading to the beginning of a possible adult diagnosis at 44. Profound sense of a weight being lifted, but also anger, doubts, confusion. Interested to hear other people's experiences and words of advice travelling this path in mid-life. 

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  • Huh, interesting. I can see that there are two replies for this thread, but neither of them are showing up when I open the thread. Oh well, if you can read this:

    Welcome to the community! Yes, mixed emotions after finding out you have Autism is very common. You’ll find that a lot of people on here have gone through the same rollercoaster of emotions that come with having that realization so late in life.

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  • Huh, interesting. I can see that there are two replies for this thread, but neither of them are showing up when I open the thread. Oh well, if you can read this:

    Welcome to the community! Yes, mixed emotions after finding out you have Autism is very common. You’ll find that a lot of people on here have gone through the same rollercoaster of emotions that come with having that realization so late in life.

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    Hi. yes, I'm not sure what's going on with the replies. I replied to an early reply, both of which have disappeared! 

    Thanks for the welcome. As I said in the previous now invisible reply, I'm still processing. Still guarded about who I talk to (hence the appeal of this forum as a welcoming space), and still unsure what any of this will mean in the longer-term. It's helped to see lots of folks approaching or having passed through a diagnostic phase. I'm right at the start of that. I was in therapy for a while, which led to the suspicion of autism, the theory being that my depression was driven by burnout after a lifetime of moderately successful "masking" started to fail in the face of, well, adult human existence and that comes packaged with that, plus grief. So far it's been liberating to a point, insofar that my the difficulties of my past (and present) look very different when viewed through the AU lens. Also upsetting, maddening.