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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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  • I didn’t even know I was autistic at first. I just thought people might dislike me for other reasons like I wanted to be on my own and that I didn’t like small talk or celebrity gossip from the media but now I realise that I am just different internally and this cannot be changed. Like you I see people around believing autism is an extreme condition with physical movement outside of our mind and this is not helped by movies such as Rainman and the impression that kids in special schools are the only people with autism. Every time I talk to somebody outside the autistic groups about autism it’s a more extreme physical condition than mine (mine is mostly to do do with no desire to be around people, noises, headspace) physically I am fully functioning. People like to believe that if you are ok on the outside then you are ok on the inside because they cannot believe what they cannot see. 

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  • I didn’t even know I was autistic at first. I just thought people might dislike me for other reasons like I wanted to be on my own and that I didn’t like small talk or celebrity gossip from the media but now I realise that I am just different internally and this cannot be changed. Like you I see people around believing autism is an extreme condition with physical movement outside of our mind and this is not helped by movies such as Rainman and the impression that kids in special schools are the only people with autism. Every time I talk to somebody outside the autistic groups about autism it’s a more extreme physical condition than mine (mine is mostly to do do with no desire to be around people, noises, headspace) physically I am fully functioning. People like to believe that if you are ok on the outside then you are ok on the inside because they cannot believe what they cannot see. 

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