Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello everyone!
My name's Caroline, I'm 17 and I just got my official autism diagnosis so even though I've been on this forum for a little while, I thought I'd properly introduce myself now. I'm relieved to finally get my diagnosis as it makes a lot of things make sense but I also feel a bit weird about it as there are lots of things I do that I feel aren't very autistic. Has anyone else had similar doubts after being diagnosed?
Hello
Welcome to the forum. can I ask, what is it that you do that doesn’t feel very autistic?
I guess mainly that I don't have many obvious stims, I feel I can understand emotions pretty well and I have friends currently who I like to meet up with. I know those are stereotypes and you can be autistic and do those things it's just with the media's terrible portrayals of autism I feel like a fake if I don't tick every box.