What was the straw that broke the camels back?

We knew from when I was a child that it was possible/probable that I was autistic, but my parents didn't see an advantage to getting me assessed. The tipping point for getting assessed came when I was firmly in a mental health crisis after returning to school after covid after loosing all my coping skills from lack of practice. 

We had accepted I was autistic long before then, the difficult thing to accept was that it was sufficiently disabling to warrant diagnosis. 

We knew from when I was a child that it was possible/probable that I was autistic, but my parents didn't see an advantage to getting me assessed. The tipping point for getting assessed came when I was firmly in a mental health crisis after returning to school after covid after loosing all my coping skills from lack of practice. 

We had accepted I was autistic long before then, the difficult thing to accept was that it was sufficiently disabling to warrant diagnosis. 

I feel god awful for people suffering from any type of breakdown or lose of function, its heartbreaking and I wish only more knew how hard that hits people.  

Actually the true tipping point was when I was on a walk on a phone call to an autistic friend sobbing and she said 'This isn't coping'

That was the moment I realised I needed to seek more support