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When did / What made you realise?

AutisticBeaut2025

Firstly, I would like to thank you all for your help with my autism research as you have been a big part of my autism journey that I’ve been on since I’ve fallen out with my best friend and you have also made me see realise that the NeuroDiversity World is beautiful as well as complicated but I have loved every second of it.

In the meantime, I have one last challenging question for you, which is when did you realise that you were autistic and what made you go for an assessment?  If you can’t remember exactly then that’s fine but if you know roughly then that would be great.

Im just curious and intrigued

Time to get your thinking caps on!!xx

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  • It was brought up before I was 10. And then many times since then from parents of autistic friends and the autistic friends, and my viola teacher who used to work as a music therapist for autistic people and had an autistic son.

    It took me until I was 17 to seek a diagnosis because I (and my parents) fundamentally felt I wasn't 'struggling enough' for it to be 'real autism' 

    Eventually I was on a walk sobbing down the phone to a friend (who was autistic) and she went "This isn't fine, this isn't coping, this is struggling"

    I went to the school nurse who helped me call the GP the same week to ask for an assessment. It then took 4 years to actually get diagnosed but that's a different story. Sweat smile

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  • It was brought up before I was 10. And then many times since then from parents of autistic friends and the autistic friends, and my viola teacher who used to work as a music therapist for autistic people and had an autistic son.

    It took me until I was 17 to seek a diagnosis because I (and my parents) fundamentally felt I wasn't 'struggling enough' for it to be 'real autism' 

    Eventually I was on a walk sobbing down the phone to a friend (who was autistic) and she went "This isn't fine, this isn't coping, this is struggling"

    I went to the school nurse who helped me call the GP the same week to ask for an assessment. It then took 4 years to actually get diagnosed but that's a different story. Sweat smile

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