Late diagnosis

It misses the point that you don't know you are acting at being NT. You didn't forget. It started so young you've never known anything different.

It misses the point that you don't know you are acting at being NT. You didn't forget. It started so young you've never known anything different.

I was assessed at 53 and up until then I just thought that I was a little different in some ways, I felt that I didn't really fit in.

Was I masking, probably, was it a conscious decision, I don't think it was.

True. At four years of age, you just do what you have to do to stop people giving out to you and correcting you. It is not a conscious choice, it is a learned response. You're not thinking, "Oh, I should really try out some masking." You just do what you have to do.