Still unsure about my Autism, realised the possibility last week and so i'm here to find out more, positive and negative, to understand myself better.

Hi there,

I guess you could say I'm newly autistic was diagnosed a few weeks ago, however my story is that I have always struggled my whole life with lots of things mainly social and interpersonal interactions it's just confusing I've gotten better as a result masking and studying people through my life in and still do.

I came to the realisation because a few months ago I was really struggling with my mental health and I was looking into why I felt the way I felt and I happened to come a across a video explaining autistic traits in adults and I was hooked for lack of a better word, I researched day and night for about 2 months straight and that's all that occupied my mind (which turned out to be a autistic trait in it's self becoming obsessed with things) but the bottom line is research, research, research.

Eventually you'll find your answer to whether or not you think your autistic as the days went by during my research I just related more and more to what I was reading and watching.

Here's some YouTube channels I used to help me incase you haven't seen them or are still looking into it.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-FpBZR7DbpvNj5UrFN8qUA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOKKRcJey93Ms-dL630UNIQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk5aCrQAppGZ8atiOpgYZ1A

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFd9e6W-saUSwje3-B2lCVg

There are lots and lots of free online test you can take too that were super helpful for me as they are something you can use to in a way confirm your suspicions. I've linked a couple here but try and do as many as you can don't just stick to one as they're not all accurate, and look up the official DSM 5 autism requirements it can be quite difficult to understand as it's worded with a bit of medical jargon but there are also videos online that help with that too.

https://rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

https://www.clinical-partners.co.uk/for-adults/autism-and-aspergers/adult-autism-test

Hope this helps you.

O

Hi there,

I guess you could say I'm newly autistic was diagnosed a few weeks ago, however my story is that I have always struggled my whole life with lots of things mainly social and interpersonal interactions it's just confusing I've gotten better as a result masking and studying people through my life in and still do.

I came to the realisation because a few months ago I was really struggling with my mental health and I was looking into why I felt the way I felt and I happened to come a across a video explaining autistic traits in adults and I was hooked for lack of a better word, I researched day and night for about 2 months straight and that's all that occupied my mind (which turned out to be a autistic trait in it's self becoming obsessed with things) but the bottom line is research, research, research.

Eventually you'll find your answer to whether or not you think your autistic as the days went by during my research I just related more and more to what I was reading and watching.

Here's some YouTube channels I used to help me incase you haven't seen them or are still looking into it.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-FpBZR7DbpvNj5UrFN8qUA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOKKRcJey93Ms-dL630UNIQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk5aCrQAppGZ8atiOpgYZ1A

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFd9e6W-saUSwje3-B2lCVg

There are lots and lots of free online test you can take too that were super helpful for me as they are something you can use to in a way confirm your suspicions. I've linked a couple here but try and do as many as you can don't just stick to one as they're not all accurate, and look up the official DSM 5 autism requirements it can be quite difficult to understand as it's worded with a bit of medical jargon but there are also videos online that help with that too.

https://rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

https://www.clinical-partners.co.uk/for-adults/autism-and-aspergers/adult-autism-test

Hope this helps you.

O

Yes, me too.  Once over the shock, I became totally obsessed - hyper focused, I might even say.  Research was all I could do for weeks...

I found so many answers to all sorts of stuff about me that I thought were just bizarre personality quirks, because of my dyslexia or the result of some other adverse childhood event.  As a linguist, I've always wondered why my mother's descriptions of my speech development don't fit what I know to be the 'text book' stages, for instance, and why I don't have an accent local to where I was born and raised, or to anywhere in fact. Or why my podiatrist ex-boyfriend said my gait was slightly strange...the answers were all down that rabbit hole.  

I mustn't prejudge the assessment, but my hunch is that minimum they'll tell me I have traits and those traits are what's getting in the way of medical care.