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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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  • Hi, Welcome!! I was diagnosed at 25, just over 3 years ago and I still have moments where I am questioning my diagnosis and I’m still figuring out what it means to be autistic. I think questioning things and feelings of imposter syndrome post diagnosis are very common amongst autistic individuals (maybe you can think of you questioning the diagnosis being a manifestation of one of your autistic traits). It helped me a lot to connect to others on this forum. I also realised that a lot of my friends are neurodivergent- I just hadn’t known previously but they shared this when I told them about being autistic myself. It takes time to figure things out. I am still trying to figure out how to function and be happy in this world without being trapped in an endless cycle of burnout and overwhelm. It’s not always easy. I think that knowing I am autistic will help in the long term though- I hope so at least. I hope this helps! 

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  • Hi, Welcome!! I was diagnosed at 25, just over 3 years ago and I still have moments where I am questioning my diagnosis and I’m still figuring out what it means to be autistic. I think questioning things and feelings of imposter syndrome post diagnosis are very common amongst autistic individuals (maybe you can think of you questioning the diagnosis being a manifestation of one of your autistic traits). It helped me a lot to connect to others on this forum. I also realised that a lot of my friends are neurodivergent- I just hadn’t known previously but they shared this when I told them about being autistic myself. It takes time to figure things out. I am still trying to figure out how to function and be happy in this world without being trapped in an endless cycle of burnout and overwhelm. It’s not always easy. I think that knowing I am autistic will help in the long term though- I hope so at least. I hope this helps! 

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