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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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  • For me it was picked up at the start of school though they more leaned towards anxiety at first, then ADHD and then in my final year at school I was diagnosed with ASD.

    But looking back the signs were there when I was little too

    *Struggling to socialise 

    *Never able to make friends 

    *Always wearing the same things 

    *Being hyper sensitive to some things like noise, touch, light, smells..

    *Not being able to speak a lot of the time - 90% the time I'm non verbal can never find the right words so I just say nothing most of the time.

    Even mums agreed the signs were there when I was growing up but it wasn't really noticed until I got to secondary school. I really struggled then so maybe it made these things worse and more noticeable?

    Glad it's been found though, it's comforting to know why I'm different Blush

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  • For me it was picked up at the start of school though they more leaned towards anxiety at first, then ADHD and then in my final year at school I was diagnosed with ASD.

    But looking back the signs were there when I was little too

    *Struggling to socialise 

    *Never able to make friends 

    *Always wearing the same things 

    *Being hyper sensitive to some things like noise, touch, light, smells..

    *Not being able to speak a lot of the time - 90% the time I'm non verbal can never find the right words so I just say nothing most of the time.

    Even mums agreed the signs were there when I was growing up but it wasn't really noticed until I got to secondary school. I really struggled then so maybe it made these things worse and more noticeable?

    Glad it's been found though, it's comforting to know why I'm different Blush

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