I was encouraged to go for assessment for autism. I did and now they have said I'm autistic. This has made me very upset. I feel that now I have been diagnosed I will only ever be seen as autistic and I think I feel hopeless or lost.
Does anyone understand this?
Hi. How people see you will depend on how you see yourself. Take your time to find out. I know it's a shock, 'cos when I got my diagnosis I was in a really strange place for ages. I didn't know where I was, what I was supposed to do next, and I'm still trying to find out how it works. It changed just about everything I had ever thought about me and the world. In ways, it was like being hit by a massive lump of blinding insight, and boy was I dazzled!
It helped me a lot to come on here and talk to other people. The best bits are that I finally found a community of people like me, so I stopped feeling so alone, and that I found out where the confusing difference between me and other people was. It's in the AS, I wish I'd known sooner.
You're not just a person with ASD, you are an ASD person. We're different to most people, but that's it. we're not better or worse, we have problems and difficulties just like anyone else, but for me, the best bit was getting started on my new journey by realising that it's OK to be me.
I hope that you come to see the benefits of having the diagnosis. Now you can find other people who yes, DO know how you feel.
Take care 
Hi. How people see you will depend on how you see yourself. Take your time to find out. I know it's a shock, 'cos when I got my diagnosis I was in a really strange place for ages. I didn't know where I was, what I was supposed to do next, and I'm still trying to find out how it works. It changed just about everything I had ever thought about me and the world. In ways, it was like being hit by a massive lump of blinding insight, and boy was I dazzled!
It helped me a lot to come on here and talk to other people. The best bits are that I finally found a community of people like me, so I stopped feeling so alone, and that I found out where the confusing difference between me and other people was. It's in the AS, I wish I'd known sooner.
You're not just a person with ASD, you are an ASD person. We're different to most people, but that's it. we're not better or worse, we have problems and difficulties just like anyone else, but for me, the best bit was getting started on my new journey by realising that it's OK to be me.
I hope that you come to see the benefits of having the diagnosis. Now you can find other people who yes, DO know how you feel.
Take care
