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I feel isolated and depressed after my diagnosis. What to do?

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I'm 35 years old, and I've only been diagnosed in July, despite the fact that I've always known.

However, I have the impression that I am having difficulties. However, I'm prone to laziness when it comes to keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances. As an autistic person, I've found that I've developed a strong desire to be the most important person in the lives of the people I care about the most.Since I don't know anyone else who has Asperger's or other forms of autism, I feel isolated and isolated.

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  • Hi, welcome.

    Autism, where the wonderful and difficult collide.  Diagnosis affects autistics in different ways, it can be liberating or it can be painful, or both.  Its a journey, and can take time to adjust, just flow with it.

    Is it really laziness that means you don't keep in touch with people, or is that you just don't think to engage?  There is a difference.

    It can be difficult for autistic people to remember, and difficult to get their brain started on something (run out of spoons).

    That affects engagement with people, and even if you wanted to engage with people all the time that may be difficult to do.

    People will back off if we don't engage, that's usually how it works, so isolation happens.

    You could tell people you need them to contact you now and then, if you haven't been in touch.  It may not work, but worth a try.

    You could set up reminders.

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  • Hi, welcome.

    Autism, where the wonderful and difficult collide.  Diagnosis affects autistics in different ways, it can be liberating or it can be painful, or both.  Its a journey, and can take time to adjust, just flow with it.

    Is it really laziness that means you don't keep in touch with people, or is that you just don't think to engage?  There is a difference.

    It can be difficult for autistic people to remember, and difficult to get their brain started on something (run out of spoons).

    That affects engagement with people, and even if you wanted to engage with people all the time that may be difficult to do.

    People will back off if we don't engage, that's usually how it works, so isolation happens.

    You could tell people you need them to contact you now and then, if you haven't been in touch.  It may not work, but worth a try.

    You could set up reminders.

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