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Reading posts about a late diagnosis - Intended to be a light-hearted post for those aged 30+

Sporadic Sparkly

I do not wish to offend anyone below the age of thirty, but I'm aware that there are a good many members who didn't receive a diagnosis until they were middle-aged or older. It causes me some amusement when I see posts from members that I consider to be relatively young (compared to me, that is), stating that they have received a late diagnosis.

Please tell me I'm not the only person who sits there thinking, "But you are still quite young!" 

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  • Obviously younger people being diagnosed is a really good thing. A quite normal age now is 3-4 years old. I first had the fire lit under me by listening to a radio interview about late diagnosis of autism, the two people being interviewed were 18 years old when diagnosed. I didn’t then realise that 18 was late by today’s standards. I remember listening and it was as if they were telling my life story and then the penny dropped. I do sometimes think to myself that those sort of ages aren’t late, but then again they had to struggle through school as well with little help.

    I think that we most probably feel a bit angry and hurt that the system never noticed us. Basically there was no system.  I still wouldn’t have been noticed as I did such a good job of concealing my real self. From the outside I was normal, it was inside that I was on fire. We most probably hear of more late diagnosis as there is an entire generation who slipped through the net.

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