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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 saw someone I worked with at a previous company put up a video about autism for disability awareness month on LinkedIn last July. My son was on the pathway, but I didn't actually know anything about it or knew anyone who was autisitc, so I thought I should watch and find out more to help my son. 

    I was shocked as to how many of the problems and issues he (the person on the video) faced were the same as mine, as I didn't know anyone else had them. I fell down the rabbit hole of research as I was off work at the time due quitting my job from exhaustion. I decided to seek a private diagnosis (no NHS ones for adults in my area), as I felt if I was going to get back into work, I had to find out why it had gone wrong for me before, and I was a bit scared it would happen again.  It explained so much, and that I'm not alone with it.

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  • I saw someone I worked with at a previous company put up a video about autism for disability awareness month on LinkedIn last July. My son was on the pathway, but I didn't actually know anything about it or knew anyone who was autisitc, so I thought I should watch and find out more to help my son. 

    I was shocked as to how many of the problems and issues he (the person on the video) faced were the same as mine, as I didn't know anyone else had them. I fell down the rabbit hole of research as I was off work at the time due quitting my job from exhaustion. I decided to seek a private diagnosis (no NHS ones for adults in my area), as I felt if I was going to get back into work, I had to find out why it had gone wrong for me before, and I was a bit scared it would happen again.  It explained so much, and that I'm not alone with it.

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