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Newly diagnosed and now feel more lost!

DanFee

Hi all, 

Not sure if this is the right place to post, the psychiatrist recommended I join here. I am 34 and newly diagnosed with Autism level 1 (new being lunchtime today!) I am sat at work and cannot focus, I felt this would give me some clarify and some relief, but feeling more lost than I was trying to find answers. 

I keep getting a feeling that, maybe they got it wrong and I don't really have it, it fits, in so many ways it explains a lot but cannot help my brain telling me that maybe I answered wrong and got the diagnosis, even though I just answered truthfully. 

But my question is, what happens after? they have diagnosed me and will write a report and that is it, so although I now have an answer as to why I feel and think in a certain way, but no way to help myself lol

anyone felt the same after diagnosis? I mask a lot and it is exhausting, I just want to be able to be myself and I don't know how 

thank you for reading! :) 

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  • I think you have to conciously choose to look at your life through a lens of autism, things will become clearer, I think its quite common for people to feel as as you do. I think you just have to sit with it for a bit and get used to it, so much of how you previously thought about yourself now seems up in the air, but you're still you, the same person you were before diagnosis.

    For myself I just felt relief then enjoyment as I told the few people I'd known for a while and who had remarked on my "weirdness" in a negative way, that I really couldn't help it, SO THERE!

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Being at home, I feel ok i can always be the true me, it's outside of that, at work I really struggle and I try to hide my "weirdness" it is me, but my husband instead gets the full hurricane of itwhen I get home lol

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