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Moving on from your past/ letting go of the pain

NAS85436

Hello, I am a new voice to the community. I have been reading through all the tragic stories from people who have been late-diagnosed. Their experiences have clearly left some very deep wounds which still remain unhealed; others seem to have found a way of moving on from their past. 

I would be really interested to hear about how people have discovered their way through it all. I am a parent of a late diagnosed daughter (with some Autistic traits myself). There are many celebrity stories out there of success despite their neurodiversity, but I think that peer experiences are so much more powerful and meaningful. Anyone in a position to shine some beacons of hope? 

Sue 

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  • There’s no going back, but we were right and we were not ‘defective’ or ‘weird’, it is a good reason to start moving forward.

    Maybe our diagnosis, with the new channels for our interest, can give us a means of paying it forward. 
    ‘Beacon of hope’ feels like such a strong phrase, if it seems right I’ll do my best to catch others, I’ll try my best to make the ground I can make.

    I think wounds are par-for-the-course where life is concerned, tragedy is life and overcoming tragedy is good, and there is work to be done and hard truths to be accommodated.  
    For those of us with a long-suffered path to diagnosis, there is work still to be done, we have not suffered-in-vain if we manifest our truth.

    We now have the knowledge to head-off the suffering of I others, our path was tragic, but it would be evil not to help the rest. We have the power to support the community, we have the power to help people make their mistakes quicker, I feel that we should push-on wisdom from our pain and not suffering.

    I don’t feel the need to recite a story for this one, so instead I’ll prophesy:    
    As time goes on more of us will be aware, as more of us have awareness more of us will be accepted, as more of us are accepted more of us will prosper. 

    The sooner we push the sooner we will prosper, but we will prosper as a community because the ball is now rolling, the moonshot report is a good indication of that.

  • in reply to DeSpereaux

    What beautiful words! thank you for putting it so well. 

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