Hi, everyone.

Welcome Nebula.

There are so many of us late diagnosed, or late self-identified / self-realised, here within our community that you will even sometimes notice people refer to themselves as a member of the "latelings".

Sorry to hear that you are feeling rather lost right now - hopefully, before long, you will begin to feel comfortable here.

Many of us have rejected our personal participation in mainstream social media platforms (least said, soonest mended!). 

Our community here is intended to be a peer support group (not aiming to be a traditional social media platform).

Although we reflect upon and knowledge-share based upon our respective lived experiences - in the best interests of everyone's safeguarding we take care to keep things anonymised (with support from our moderation team if the need were to arise).

Guardrails:

If you are a bit unsure about a situation you either observe, or experience, or find confusing - there are two offline routes to get something further checked out by independent consideration:

1) on a post / reply / private message / profile: under "More" you can select "Flag To Moderator", or

2) you can email the Community Manager: 

CommunityManager@nas.org.uk

As a new member; I would encourage you to also periodically have another look through you profile setting options - e.g. you can decide / amend things to suit yourself such as whether you wish to accept friend requests, engage in private messages and which notifications you receive.  (You can update those types of settings to suit yourself as you experience your engagement with our community here).

It is also completely up to you to what degree, to which frequency of participation and with whom you choose to engage - you can suit yourself / available energy / time constraints - without any expectations or pressure from fellow community members.

Generally speaking, we "get it" - as Autistic people: none of us can be like the automaton bunny on a well known battery brand TV advert all of the time!

Welcome Nebula.

There are so many of us late diagnosed, or late self-identified / self-realised, here within our community that you will even sometimes notice people refer to themselves as a member of the "latelings".

Sorry to hear that you are feeling rather lost right now - hopefully, before long, you will begin to feel comfortable here.

Many of us have rejected our personal participation in mainstream social media platforms (least said, soonest mended!). 

Our community here is intended to be a peer support group (not aiming to be a traditional social media platform).

Although we reflect upon and knowledge-share based upon our respective lived experiences - in the best interests of everyone's safeguarding we take care to keep things anonymised (with support from our moderation team if the need were to arise).

Guardrails:

If you are a bit unsure about a situation you either observe, or experience, or find confusing - there are two offline routes to get something further checked out by independent consideration:

1) on a post / reply / private message / profile: under "More" you can select "Flag To Moderator", or

2) you can email the Community Manager: 

CommunityManager@nas.org.uk

As a new member; I would encourage you to also periodically have another look through you profile setting options - e.g. you can decide / amend things to suit yourself such as whether you wish to accept friend requests, engage in private messages and which notifications you receive.  (You can update those types of settings to suit yourself as you experience your engagement with our community here).

It is also completely up to you to what degree, to which frequency of participation and with whom you choose to engage - you can suit yourself / available energy / time constraints - without any expectations or pressure from fellow community members.

Generally speaking, we "get it" - as Autistic people: none of us can be like the automaton bunny on a well known battery brand TV advert all of the time!