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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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  • Ive always known im different and never fitted in. As a teacher I had training on ASD and recognised that I had traits but thought no more of it. I was told its a spectrum that everyone is on and that everyone has traits. I just assumed that I was somewhere on it but not autistic enough.

    A few years ago I read a newspaper article about a woman who had just been diagnosed age 40. It felt like she was describing my life - always the outsider, felt like everyone else had been given a rule book, watched TV to try and learn how to behave etc. 

    It took me a while to let it sit in my brain and take roots before I really started researching and then finally 12 months ago I went to my GP and started the ball rolling. I got diagnosed a few weeks ago. 

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  • Ive always known im different and never fitted in. As a teacher I had training on ASD and recognised that I had traits but thought no more of it. I was told its a spectrum that everyone is on and that everyone has traits. I just assumed that I was somewhere on it but not autistic enough.

    A few years ago I read a newspaper article about a woman who had just been diagnosed age 40. It felt like she was describing my life - always the outsider, felt like everyone else had been given a rule book, watched TV to try and learn how to behave etc. 

    It took me a while to let it sit in my brain and take roots before I really started researching and then finally 12 months ago I went to my GP and started the ball rolling. I got diagnosed a few weeks ago. 

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