Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello!
my name is Danny, people call me Gumball I’m 27, turning 28 in March. I got my diagnosis a few days ago. Feeling both relieved and anxious.
A little about me, I’m a programmer I work with my older brother on Websites for a company we founded a few years back. I also work on some game development in my spare time, when I’m not gaming myself.
before my diagnosis I had tried everything to “fit in”. After an attempt at suicide I feel deeper into the monster grasp and started to drink, heavily along with over eating. My family found the scars on my arms and it was anti-depressants for me. Of course that did not work.
i finally got an assessment and here I am. The apparent next step in evolution. Feeling better and now the cost of finding out why I was always different has cost me my teens and my twenties at least I’m still alive!
i have a strong close family along with a new sense of life. I’ve still dig myself into a hole but now that I know, I think I’m ready to live a life and not just exist!
Ive also got dyslexia too, so, ya!
I can relate, didn't get diagnosed until I was 38. The time before was pretty chaotic.
Gumball said:Feeling better and now the cost of finding out why I was always different has cost me my teens and my twenties at least I’m still alive!
I too tried to kill myself at one point, outright, but I put myself on some paths of self-destruction that could have killed me, or got me killed. I like your outlook, that's how I see it too. Now I have something that I understand, and can work with. Not just a ball of confusion!
Hello and welcome!