What was the straw that broke the camels back?

Hey, I wanted to know peoples personal stories of their Autism emerging and what caused the sudden on set of the autism awareness within yourselves? I think I split when my mum died and I found her, I couldn’t cope with that and I’ve tried to burry it impossibly. 

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  • 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. 

  • 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

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