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

AnnMarilena

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 late diagnosed and born in the 1970s. I was in the class year  above during first school and then had to be with my age group and do an extra year there. I was always different but worked hard to fit in. I cried a lot, felt injustice very strongly and hated criticism of any kind, I would cry and cry and actually it still makes me cry quite uncontrollably. I loved being on my own playing g although I also felt lonely when I was in the playground. When I did have a friend for a short time, it always ended and I never knew why. 
    I also was a tomboy and loved animals and my grandparents, who taught me quite complicated card games when I was little. 
    looking back my childhood was hard but there were kind people around too. 

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  • I am late diagnosed and born in the 1970s. I was in the class year  above during first school and then had to be with my age group and do an extra year there. I was always different but worked hard to fit in. I cried a lot, felt injustice very strongly and hated criticism of any kind, I would cry and cry and actually it still makes me cry quite uncontrollably. I loved being on my own playing g although I also felt lonely when I was in the playground. When I did have a friend for a short time, it always ended and I never knew why. 
    I also was a tomboy and loved animals and my grandparents, who taught me quite complicated card games when I was little. 
    looking back my childhood was hard but there were kind people around too. 

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