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Newly diagnosed and looking to make neurodivergent friends

chloem

Hello! My name's Chloe, and I've recently been diagnosed with autism at the age of 32. I'm a high masking autistic female.

I've always felt different, but it's only over the last few years that I've learned more about autism in women, specifically high-masking women, and discovered that I was autistic myself. 

I've always struggled to make and maintain friendships, due to working from home and not having the opportunity to meet people, but also due to feeling very different to neurotypicals and unable to relate to them. I don't have anyone else around me who is neurodivergent. 

I'd really like to make like-minded friends and find a community. 

I live in the North West of England with my husband and our cat and I work in marketing.

My interests include gaming, reading, writing, music, crafts, collecting handbags and astrology. I'm also currently learning to speak Mandarin Chinese! 

I hope to hear from you soon! Slight smile

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  • Hi Chloe, im Heather.

    Im 41 and married and have 3 children. I live in northwest too im from Greater Manchester, what part of the northwest are you from if you dont mind me asking?

    I'm newly self identified as being autistic not sure if im going to go down the assessment route yet. My nearly 12 year daughter is non verbal autistic though goes to special needs school and is actually starting a high school for special needs next month which is scary thought the change.

    What music do you like? I mainly like rock music/indie rock and bit of older soul music, i think best eras for music are 60s,90s and beginning of 00s

    Reading i like psychological thrillers/crime, historical fiction/historical saga and a bit of romance only if its got a good back story/good author I wouldn't say i was a lovely dovey type of person.

    I like quiz games, word games, im not really into the console game playing like yourself but my eldest daughter, my son and my husband are. My eldest likes games like fifa, gta, life is strange, my son is 10 at the end of year always playing fortnight.

    Be nice to to chat.

    Slight smile

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  • Hi Chloe, im Heather.

    Im 41 and married and have 3 children. I live in northwest too im from Greater Manchester, what part of the northwest are you from if you dont mind me asking?

    I'm newly self identified as being autistic not sure if im going to go down the assessment route yet. My nearly 12 year daughter is non verbal autistic though goes to special needs school and is actually starting a high school for special needs next month which is scary thought the change.

    What music do you like? I mainly like rock music/indie rock and bit of older soul music, i think best eras for music are 60s,90s and beginning of 00s

    Reading i like psychological thrillers/crime, historical fiction/historical saga and a bit of romance only if its got a good back story/good author I wouldn't say i was a lovely dovey type of person.

    I like quiz games, word games, im not really into the console game playing like yourself but my eldest daughter, my son and my husband are. My eldest likes games like fifa, gta, life is strange, my son is 10 at the end of year always playing fortnight.

    Be nice to to chat.

    Slight smile

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