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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 kinda always felt like that I didn't belong, it really isn't something that I can easily explain. It wasn't until I was 50 that someone finally asked the question during a mediation review for my TRD.

    It should obviously really if you join the dots but since I was just me and I didn't have a different perspective how was I suppose to know.I have an autistic kid and a trans kid, so the writing was already on the wall. 

    When I was assessed I was told that with my history I really should have been picked up earlier. It actually says on my diagnosis report that I actually have atypical autism or PDD-NOS which I've been told is just autism "lite" and it used to be classed as a sub autism diagnosis until the revised the last DSM.

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  • I kinda always felt like that I didn't belong, it really isn't something that I can easily explain. It wasn't until I was 50 that someone finally asked the question during a mediation review for my TRD.

    It should obviously really if you join the dots but since I was just me and I didn't have a different perspective how was I suppose to know.I have an autistic kid and a trans kid, so the writing was already on the wall. 

    When I was assessed I was told that with my history I really should have been picked up earlier. It actually says on my diagnosis report that I actually have atypical autism or PDD-NOS which I've been told is just autism "lite" and it used to be classed as a sub autism diagnosis until the revised the last DSM.

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