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Do you ever feel ashamed of being autistic?

LivAgain

Hi,

I know it sounds like an awful thing to say and I'm sure it will spark controversy but this is just a question I have never felt able to ask other autistic people and tonight I just thought, "Why not? People are welcome to disagree with me if that's how they feel."

Anyway, I've been having a rough time lately and feel very ashamed of a lot of things. One thing I'm certainly ashamed of is being autistic. Everything about it feels like a threat - a threat to my femininity, to my appearance, to how others will perceive me. It's hard to put into words but it's almost as though the symptoms don't worry me (I don't actually have a great deal of symptoms, really; not nowadays anyway) but the label itself is damaging me more and more every day.

I feel so guilty for feeling like this but I don't want to wonder anymore. Does anyone else feel like this?

Thank you,

LivAgain 

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  • I haven't been able to do too much because of where I live there hasn't been services for some time.  It's only in the past year or so that I've been able to do anything.  NAS opened up their first One Stop Shop in the area last year, but it was in a small, temporary space, so I did fundraising with the help of my employer and we raised £400 together to help get them into the more permanent building they have now.  The grand opening was a couple of months ago, and it now has a sensory room and everything!  I'm sure over time, when I meet more people who help out at the one stop shop, and doing more classes, I'll get more involved.

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  • I haven't been able to do too much because of where I live there hasn't been services for some time.  It's only in the past year or so that I've been able to do anything.  NAS opened up their first One Stop Shop in the area last year, but it was in a small, temporary space, so I did fundraising with the help of my employer and we raised £400 together to help get them into the more permanent building they have now.  The grand opening was a couple of months ago, and it now has a sensory room and everything!  I'm sure over time, when I meet more people who help out at the one stop shop, and doing more classes, I'll get more involved.

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