Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi all,
I'm a 33 year old male diagnosed with autism and ADHD last year. It was recommended I seek a diagnosis after years of very severe mental health issues and, lo and behold, turns out I am indeed on the spectrum. I still don't know what to make of it but as time goes on I realise I can attribute more and more of my challenges and eccentricities to this, and it might help to reach out to others like myself. I've always been friends with autistic people but I'm not yet ready to tell people I know about my diagnosis (with a couple of exceptions).
Take it all in your own time. No one has to know unless you want to tell them.
But yes, minority we may be but there are more of us out there than we think and when you meet another...communication problem? What communication problem? I've had couple of professional and social relationships with people on the spectrum. Others found them odd. I struggled to see it. They were just nice ordinary people to me, hmmm....looking back, I wonder why that was.