Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello all,
I have been recently diagnosed after my assessment last week. I am 31 and always struggled my whole life and feel like I don’t fit in. It seemed certain I would get a diagnosis based on the difficulties I have and from my experiences of working with students with ASD; however even though this was expected I am still struggling with the diagnosis and getting upset, trying to accept it, push it away etc.
How long did it take you all to accept the diagnosis? I know it is a good thing in the sense that it gives me answers to my difficulties.
Nice to meet you all and it would be helpful to get to know some of you and get some advice on the difficulties I face as I feel very isolated with this currently.
Yeah, sometimes it feels like I've been obliviously skating past all my problems all my life, and at other times it feels like I've crashed through the ice and am sinking. I'm 3 weeks in (although had an autism diagnosis at 3 that my parents opted not to tell me about). It is like putting glasses on for the first time and realising you were looking through a fog but never knew. Reading loads of books has helped me. Sometimes I think this explains everything, othertimes I'm confused what to make of it, other times I push it away. Already though I feel it will help me change behaviour and thinking patterns so that life will improve. A friend who got a late diagnosis told me the first 3-4 months were hard, but that it settles in time. For the moment it's just a bit surreal.