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Diagnosed as an adult

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Hi 

My name is Shaun and I recently  got diagnosed  at the age of 31 years of age. 

I not long turned 32 and had been diagnosed a few days before my birthday 

I am struggling to process it but I ve been doing some YouTube stuff to talk about my issues. I am more in shock that its taken this long to get a diagnosis   even though I was seen quite quickly  by doctors.

It's explains alot of thing over 3 decades why I am the way I am.

I was wondering if there is any support for adults I just feel like I ve been left to fend for my self with no numbers to call for just a chat 

I don't like to be around People and don't have friends and I like that  some days I just need a chat 

Has any one else been diagnosed  as an adult 

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  • Support in most parts of the UK is for children who are Autistic. Adults are never thought about. I fought for over a decade and in my sixties I had a diagnosis. In Birmingham and Coventry there was no support but apparently there is now I've moved to Telford. So I am looking forward to seeing what that's like. Just never give up, keep asking, keep up the pressure. Just because you are an adult doesn't mean that you don't need some support. I'm lucky, I know some people I can talk about being Autistic with, but some family members refuse to see me as autistic as I don't sit on the floor rocking, and can speak. My life has changed since I know who am, I am not crazy, I am not incompetent, I am me, and part of being me is being wired differently to 'normal' people. I don't feel any compulsion to fit in any more, people can accept me as me or not, that's their choice.

  • in reply to Nick Squiggler

    aye my parents just see me as a lazy unsociable scrounger. they think that people with autism have to be like people with downs syndrome and have to be rubbing their poo all over the walls... which yes they said that, thats what they think autism is....

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