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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  • I am also nearly 50. I had my ASD assessment three weeks ago and am waiting for the results. I always felt different at school. Other children said I was weird.

    I started masking heavily as a teenager (although I didn't have that term for it then) and have done so ever since. Although recently it has got harder to keep it up and I'm now signed off sick from work with stress.

    My whole life is starting to make sense now in retrospect. I'm anxious that I won't get the diagnosis as then I still won't have ay explanation for the way I am.

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  • I am also nearly 50. I had my ASD assessment three weeks ago and am waiting for the results. I always felt different at school. Other children said I was weird.

    I started masking heavily as a teenager (although I didn't have that term for it then) and have done so ever since. Although recently it has got harder to keep it up and I'm now signed off sick from work with stress.

    My whole life is starting to make sense now in retrospect. I'm anxious that I won't get the diagnosis as then I still won't have ay explanation for the way I am.

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