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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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  • I have failed to be formally diagnosed but I consider myself autistic, as do my family.

    I first realised when my siblings brought it up with me, it was a conversation where I was wrapped in cotton wool, but I came out of it with everything making sense.

    Since then I have looked at what information I can find and it confirms everything about my existence.

    The biggest most obvious thing, is that I am almost universally rejected by people.  I am very frequently misinterpreted.  I am also easily manipulated as I cant understand people's intent.

    As a child I was ridiculed, bullied, laughed at, but I was also naive so didnt realise early on, and when I started realising I didnt fit the experience by then was quite nasty.

    Also of interest is observations made of me which I learnt about when my sibling filled in the autism assessment form.

    Things I not really picked up on my self such as I am only comfortable talking about a few specific things, bad at eye contact, fixated on certain things, and that I can get quite stroppy if a routine I want or am expecting is broken.  So it was my siblings that woke me up to it. 

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  • I have failed to be formally diagnosed but I consider myself autistic, as do my family.

    I first realised when my siblings brought it up with me, it was a conversation where I was wrapped in cotton wool, but I came out of it with everything making sense.

    Since then I have looked at what information I can find and it confirms everything about my existence.

    The biggest most obvious thing, is that I am almost universally rejected by people.  I am very frequently misinterpreted.  I am also easily manipulated as I cant understand people's intent.

    As a child I was ridiculed, bullied, laughed at, but I was also naive so didnt realise early on, and when I started realising I didnt fit the experience by then was quite nasty.

    Also of interest is observations made of me which I learnt about when my sibling filled in the autism assessment form.

    Things I not really picked up on my self such as I am only comfortable talking about a few specific things, bad at eye contact, fixated on certain things, and that I can get quite stroppy if a routine I want or am expecting is broken.  So it was my siblings that woke me up to it. 

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