Autism and Age

There is no noticeable correlation between my age and my autistic traits. However there has been a huge increase in my presenting as autistic since my diagnosis in 2023. This isn’t all good as I now have no restrictions to speaking my mind, taking people at their word then debating with them when it turns out their word wasn’t what they actually meant, and being outspoken about things which annoy me. All this has caused tension in our family, lost me my volunteer role with a large animal charity and nearly got me thumped (or worse) by the ignorant and arrogant. 

What I find very much is that people and organisations will say all the right things, sign up to inclusivity, claim to be inclusive - but when they actually get a full on autist in their family or organisation suddenly they clamp down and revert to narrow mindedness and traditional discriminatiory beliefs. I have many friends in the LGBTQ community and they find the same sort of thing. People are for example, cool about LGBTQ people until they discover their child is gay or trans or questioning. 

This is just my personal experience and opinion, I have no intention of generalising or ever imposing my views on anyone else. 

I know what you are saying. No generalisation but this can appear the way. 

Also, taking what people say literally then discovering that maybe thats not what they meant, or it was a 'shocking' strategy is all too confusing.

I know what you are saying. No generalisation but this can appear the way. 

Also, taking what people say literally then discovering that maybe thats not what they meant, or it was a 'shocking' strategy is all too confusing.