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Badgers
over 5 years ago

Hi Everyone, 

I'm not entirely sure why it's taken me so long to get round to posting in here. 

I'm Dan, I'm 43 and I was diagnosed 2 years ago after a big episode of severe depression. I regard finding out I was Autistic as probably the most liberating thing to have happened to me. I made a conscious decision to stop masking and just be me. Since then my life with my family, wife, children, work and colleagues has got so my better.

I still have my bad days,but nowhere near what they used to be like simply because I've stopped trying to be something I wasn't meant to be.

Parents
  • over 5 years ago

    Hi Badgers - and welcome!

    You felt the same sense of liberation that I did, then.  People often talk about 'behaving more autistically' after diagnosis.  I think that a lot of that is simply about being more our true selves than being what the rest of the world wants and expects.

    Good for you.

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  • over 5 years ago

    Hi Badgers - and welcome!

    You felt the same sense of liberation that I did, then.  People often talk about 'behaving more autistically' after diagnosis.  I think that a lot of that is simply about being more our true selves than being what the rest of the world wants and expects.

    Good for you.

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