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Putting a name: pda autism

Nora mcgregor

Hello

ive just managed to pût à name on m'y pathology

its difficult to réalise after years spending 

several psychiatry internements and heavy

medication. Im relieved and furious at the same Time ....

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  • Hi, it may be partly an age thing.  I'm guessing you are older as you have been 'through the system' a few times. When I was a kid only the more obvious forms of autism were known about. I think Aspergers only became known about and diagnosed 20-30 years ago. I don't know when, but I think PDA is only quite recently recognised. Plus many autistic girls develop better coping strategies than boys, and so are harder to diagnose. Our symptoms aren't so obvious.

    So it might be that if you were growing up now, you'd get diagnosed.  But when we were kids we were just seen as a 'bit strange' or 'excentric'. And maybe we were diagnosed for other problems we had, as a result of being undiagnosed autistic, such as depression.

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  • Hi, it may be partly an age thing.  I'm guessing you are older as you have been 'through the system' a few times. When I was a kid only the more obvious forms of autism were known about. I think Aspergers only became known about and diagnosed 20-30 years ago. I don't know when, but I think PDA is only quite recently recognised. Plus many autistic girls develop better coping strategies than boys, and so are harder to diagnose. Our symptoms aren't so obvious.

    So it might be that if you were growing up now, you'd get diagnosed.  But when we were kids we were just seen as a 'bit strange' or 'excentric'. And maybe we were diagnosed for other problems we had, as a result of being undiagnosed autistic, such as depression.

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