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Hi,

I was diagnosed with Asperger's last yeat at 49, my initial reaction to my diagnosis was anger because in my early adlulthood, I had a break down and reached out for help with depression and anxiety, but was given minimal support.

Around that time, I was off work sick with stress. To help me recover I looked at volunteering. I was put in touch with an organisation with part of a local hospital that specialised in autism, to introduce and teach patients to learn computer skills.

I was excited by it, when I turned up for the first day, I was frightened because the building had windows that were all "blacked out". I felt they were like this, because they didn't want people looking in to the building, I didn't know what they wanted to hide. I was suffering from stress, and it may have well been an exagerated reaction. It was a very tough time.

I had been thinking about it Today, and have been wondering, if I made it in to the building, would they have noticed that I had autistic traits.

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  • I feel a diagnosis or recognition at that time would have made a big difference in my life. I am more at peace of being on my own now, but then was totally different, establishing a relationship meant the whole world to me. Just understanding my aspergers would have given me insight to the problems and feelings I was experiencing. It could have been enough to enable me to grow one of the three very brief relationships I was just able to start. It would have made a difference for my mother, explaining problems in my childhood, and why I was struggling in adulthood. I felt I was different, but whenever I reached out for help, I was told I was normal, and things will just happen given time. I needed to break through that barrier.

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  • I feel a diagnosis or recognition at that time would have made a big difference in my life. I am more at peace of being on my own now, but then was totally different, establishing a relationship meant the whole world to me. Just understanding my aspergers would have given me insight to the problems and feelings I was experiencing. It could have been enough to enable me to grow one of the three very brief relationships I was just able to start. It would have made a difference for my mother, explaining problems in my childhood, and why I was struggling in adulthood. I felt I was different, but whenever I reached out for help, I was told I was normal, and things will just happen given time. I needed to break through that barrier.

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