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Saddness after diagnosis

Ma.ra.

Dear All,

I wish for your support. I am a late diagnosed women,42, and yesterday I went to therapy and told everything I’ve learnt about autism/my autism very proudly and my therapist was very happy but also said I am going to deal with this during my whole life. I got shocked. I thought we figure out the neurotypical world and our autism and build some switch modes when we need. I thought it is like a Master degree and then you are good to go. But as the way I understood my therapist, it is gonna be a long thingy. Would you be so kind to write me positive things cause I got very very sad. Disappointed My friendships are very new and I don t wanna overwhelm them and also I tried to start to explain my wiring but they somehow invalidate this and the struggle and the sadness and it is not helping me. Thanks so much even for like an emoji now!

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  • Try not to feel too overwhelmed, think about how you were before your diagnosis, you were the same person then as you are now. You don’t need to explain anything to people irl if you don’t want to. I know exactly what you mean. I have been signposted to some organisations which offer a kind of cpd type networking for autistic people. I’m not really happy to pay hundreds of pounds to do one of these as I only feel this will benefit the company running it. There seems to be a neurotypical bias to the support systems which is equally hilarious and frightening. I’m also hearing a lot of things here which I (recently diagnosed) and feeling myself.

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  • Try not to feel too overwhelmed, think about how you were before your diagnosis, you were the same person then as you are now. You don’t need to explain anything to people irl if you don’t want to. I know exactly what you mean. I have been signposted to some organisations which offer a kind of cpd type networking for autistic people. I’m not really happy to pay hundreds of pounds to do one of these as I only feel this will benefit the company running it. There seems to be a neurotypical bias to the support systems which is equally hilarious and frightening. I’m also hearing a lot of things here which I (recently diagnosed) and feeling myself.

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