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Self Discovery?

CanadianGirl

Hi there. For those of you who have been officially diagnosed, how long did you spend in the "self discovery / research phase" before approaching your doctor?

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  • I spent just over 2 months doing proper research into autism in adults my friend that I see from time to time from college has always said that she though I'm autistic she has an autistic brother, she always said I'm just like him and to her it's obvious that I am. By chance they day after I saw her I had a video on my recommended page on YouTube something like "5 signs your undiagnosed autistic" so I watched it and I related to all 5 things on there and then spent most of my days for 2 months just reading, listening and watching and then said to my mum that I think im autistic and want to get assessed.

    Then I did and I was right :)

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  • I spent just over 2 months doing proper research into autism in adults my friend that I see from time to time from college has always said that she though I'm autistic she has an autistic brother, she always said I'm just like him and to her it's obvious that I am. By chance they day after I saw her I had a video on my recommended page on YouTube something like "5 signs your undiagnosed autistic" so I watched it and I related to all 5 things on there and then spent most of my days for 2 months just reading, listening and watching and then said to my mum that I think im autistic and want to get assessed.

    Then I did and I was right :)

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