Possibly an imposter?

Hi: let's see if I understand.

Your fear is that of the exact diagnosis.

We call it imposter syndrome.

For now I write to you that:

a) You have a diagnosis and the people who determined it are prepared and have studied exactly to understand.

So be sure it's right.


b) You are not the first individual that I consider special, who has had a diagnosis at a late age.

There are various reasons and in any case you have been very good at adapting to neurotypicals.

I have professional diagnoses from both DSM 4à and DSM5°.

I am certain of my diagnosis because it is the result of scientific research.


Up until the first professional diagnosis, I didn't describe myself as autistic.

But many Aspergers also wrote me privately that I was like them.

Now I can say without any doubt that they were right.


*I re-entered the forum very late because I couldn't log in I had lost my password and the system didn't work to give me a different one.

I apologize very much to the people who have paid attention to me and replied.


Sorry I wrote about it here.


In any case: always to answer you I'm writing to a 74 year old who was diagnosed about 6 years ago!

He's American, and has a remarkable intelligence.

He too, like you, has adapted in his own way.

It's not simple at all.

You are special.

I have spent part of my life in understanding by myself, then having confirmations, and finally the first diagnosis.

I thought autistics had worse emblematic difficulties than mine.

But I say one thing: each person is an individual to himself.

I found that there was no difference in some things that maybe I will describe more carefully.

Have no doubts.

The diagnosis is right.

We are too honest not to think about it and have doubts about it.

But they are just fears.

Fears = we do not understand.

That's why we have this phase which, if anything, denotes a lot of intellectual honesty.

Hi: let's see if I understand.

Your fear is that of the exact diagnosis.

We call it imposter syndrome.

For now I write to you that:

a) You have a diagnosis and the people who determined it are prepared and have studied exactly to understand.

So be sure it's right.


b) You are not the first individual that I consider special, who has had a diagnosis at a late age.

There are various reasons and in any case you have been very good at adapting to neurotypicals.

I have professional diagnoses from both DSM 4à and DSM5°.

I am certain of my diagnosis because it is the result of scientific research.


Up until the first professional diagnosis, I didn't describe myself as autistic.

But many Aspergers also wrote me privately that I was like them.

Now I can say without any doubt that they were right.


*I re-entered the forum very late because I couldn't log in I had lost my password and the system didn't work to give me a different one.

I apologize very much to the people who have paid attention to me and replied.


Sorry I wrote about it here.


In any case: always to answer you I'm writing to a 74 year old who was diagnosed about 6 years ago!

He's American, and has a remarkable intelligence.

He too, like you, has adapted in his own way.

It's not simple at all.

You are special.

I have spent part of my life in understanding by myself, then having confirmations, and finally the first diagnosis.

I thought autistics had worse emblematic difficulties than mine.

But I say one thing: each person is an individual to himself.

I found that there was no difference in some things that maybe I will describe more carefully.

Have no doubts.

The diagnosis is right.

We are too honest not to think about it and have doubts about it.

But they are just fears.

Fears = we do not understand.

That's why we have this phase which, if anything, denotes a lot of intellectual honesty.

I have to disagree on trusting diagnoses.. it really depends where, and who. Clinical and medical error unfortunately actually has an incredibly high rate. Accuracy is not guaranteed at all, especially not these days.
As a former teacher, I am certain that the vast majority of those who gain a qualification, are not competent enough to work accurately in their field of study, and need two things to achieve this:
1. Extensive experience in the job. But some people are new to the job and doing it anyway (how else to get experience?)
2. Dedication to accuracy or high intelligence. A lot of people pass any kind of course but still aren't good problem-solvers, and go out into the world with a very rigid framework that's susceptible to error, and in fields that don't get feedback or evidence of their ability returning to them, this problem can be even more extensive.
As a technical problem solver, I think if I treated my customers computers they way most doctors treat medical analysis, they would be coming back 5x a week confused and pissed off and with the same problems they started with.
Some countries medical professionals are huge scammers, too, like Australia, where they fake vaccine reports for citizens just to get the medicare payout, and then patients are denied vaccines because they have too many on record lol. If that isn't low, I don't know what is (that literally happened to me, by two completely different doctors).
Hell, I have really bad arthititis that was being diagnosed as depression for 2 years!!! And some undiagnosed conditons that have me mostly paralysed, but instead of scans and proper diagnosis, the doctor (who doesn't even know what autism is), is offended by how different I am and wants me to get psychological help instead of assisting me with the physical injuries that it took huge efforts for me to find a way around to visit him for lol.
Some people got their medical license in a box of cereal, I'm afraid. This is why multiple diagnoss and second opinions is generally a good idea.