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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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  • Hi Random,

    It is easy to forget how recently Aspergers was formerly recognised as a diagnosis. 1991 for ICD and 1994 for DSM. Unless there was a specialist with a keen interest in this new field it would have been unlikely that it would have been picked up. Prior to 1989 it is unlikely that anyone would have considered you autistic and then it would have been a significantly small number of specialists.

    Even today there are children and young people going undiagnosed into adulthood.

    We got the same reply for our daughter when she was young, fortunately someone else asked the right questions during her last year at primary school. It still took two years to get diagnosis.

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  • Hi Random,

    It is easy to forget how recently Aspergers was formerly recognised as a diagnosis. 1991 for ICD and 1994 for DSM. Unless there was a specialist with a keen interest in this new field it would have been unlikely that it would have been picked up. Prior to 1989 it is unlikely that anyone would have considered you autistic and then it would have been a significantly small number of specialists.

    Even today there are children and young people going undiagnosed into adulthood.

    We got the same reply for our daughter when she was young, fortunately someone else asked the right questions during her last year at primary school. It still took two years to get diagnosis.

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