Published on 12, July, 2020
Quick introduction.
I’m a 51 year old female (creak) who was diagnosed just over a year ago, and who needs friends.
Maybe I’m not allowed to say that? I don’t know!!! Not sure I know anything any more...
While my diagnosis explained a lot, it also opened the doors to loads of questions. I’d masked all my life, had a “good” job, been in relationships, helped people, had a child....yet I suddenly felt I wasn’t the person I thought I was.
How do you get your head round that?
Anyway...here I am, wondering - after a lifetime of blips - if I’m even worth knowing, while realising it would make the most sense to make friends in the neurodiverse world.
Can you sense my confusion?
I hate the term “high functioning” as I believe it hides so many enormous struggles, but I have to admit I am it...or I appear to be just that.
There you have it. It’d be nice to get to know some new people, so please say hi....
x
Yes, of course you're allowed to say that and you sound well worth knowing :-) I'm 56 and going through the process now. X
Phew, thank goodness it’s not just me. When were you diagnosed? And thanks x
Still waiting. About 4 months to go, I think. The brain won't sit in limbo until then though and I'm busy reading and looking for the self-help strategies now. Even if I come out a bit under the bar, so much of this fits, it's going to help regardless. I am diagnosed dyslexic, so not exactly NT to start with.