Hello. Are there any people here who were born in the 70s and 80s, always different, now diagnosed with high-functioning autism? Like me?

I'm almost 50 years old, and I've always felt I was different. Even in preschool, at the age of three, I felt it clearly. But it wasn't a problem for me. I functioned very well. I asked my mother why the children at preschool were different from me. She didn't understand my questions. So I decided she was different too. As if it were natural that most people are different from me, although I don't know why. But I never wanted to be like those others, even at three or four years old. In a sense, I felt they were a separate species, even though they looked the same. To simplify a bit – like a dog and a cat. Both species, in a simplified description, have the same physical characteristics: fur, four legs, a tail, ears... But they're different species. And that's normal. That's how I felt in preschool. After that, it was different.

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  • Hi, I was born in the 1960’s, I knew I wasn’t the same as the other children, labelled as shy and a loner. Pre school was my first introduction to other children, I felt like ‘The Ugly Duckling,’ it takes professionals a long time to decide you are different, the other children decide almost immediately.
    It wasn’t until my fifties that I realised I’m autistic and eventually diagnosed as so.

    I view the world now knowing I’m different and am able to make adjustments that make my world a bit easier. The world thinks there has been an explosion of autism diagnosis, in truth we know our generations had no understanding of autism or access to help.

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  • Hi, I was born in the 1960’s, I knew I wasn’t the same as the other children, labelled as shy and a loner. Pre school was my first introduction to other children, I felt like ‘The Ugly Duckling,’ it takes professionals a long time to decide you are different, the other children decide almost immediately.
    It wasn’t until my fifties that I realised I’m autistic and eventually diagnosed as so.

    I view the world now knowing I’m different and am able to make adjustments that make my world a bit easier. The world thinks there has been an explosion of autism diagnosis, in truth we know our generations had no understanding of autism or access to help.

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