How to embrace your own neurodiversity

Welcome to the community. Connecting with other autistic adults on here is a great way to embrace your autistic identity.

I am on a similar journey after being diagnosed much later in life. Is your diagnosis recent?

Masking behaviours that have started in childhood can be harder to identify and 'unmask'. They may have become automatic responses that are ingrained. Discovering the real self underneath is actually quite difficult. It can result in a sort of identity crisis, whereby you don't know who you are anymore.

Post diagnosis I found that my anxiety around talking to people actually increased, which was the opposite to what I was expecting. My theory is that I had become more self aware and was starting to notice and think more, in a conscious effort to identify where and how I was masking. 

In my experience it is a gradual process and will take time.

This is the part killing me as it seems my truth is relyung on others and just being a waster

What do mean being a water?

Waster I mean, sorry

Waster I mean, sorry