Being a lateling

I wonder how different our experiences of ND are to those who were diagnosed young and have grown up knowing they're ND?

I don't just mean the problems we've had and the negative stuff, but how we are in the world, how we look at our pasts through the ND lens we now have, do things make more sense?

How much has a diagnosis made a difference to how you live, has it given you permission to do/be how you want rather than how society expects us to be?

What lessons from your past as an undiagnosed apparently NT person have you brought forward with you that still hold value to you?

For myself, a lot more things make sense now I'm diagnosed and I do feel less pressure to be how others wish me to be, rather than how I want be. I feel there's a lot of stuff in my past that has shaped me and that I've brought with me as a ND person, I'm no way do I feel that a line has been drawn under the past and the now, ND is just another string to my bow,

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  • I'm very much like you. Knowing that I'm ND (even though I'm not formally diagnosed) has enabled me to learn that I actually don't like living like an NT, as I tried to do for decades. I can now see how I made mistakes by doing things considered "normal" and if I had the chance to live my life over again I'd certainly do things differently. 

    And Yes, it has given me permission to live my life how I want and not care about what others think.

  • Since my diagnosis of Aspire Syndrome, I feel stronger and braver. I am proud because I know what and who I am, now. Even though people still try to confront me, I am learning to fight back more, but in my world I am still quiet and timidScream

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