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25 Apr 2013, 4:53 pm

I'm recently diagnosed. Weird, isn't it, having to readjust one's self-identity? Believing all your life you're one thing when really you're another?

Anyway, I'm female and in my thirties. Howdy :)



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25 Apr 2013, 5:11 pm

Howdy to you, too.


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25 Apr 2013, 5:18 pm

:D



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25 Apr 2013, 5:25 pm

Welcome! :)



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25 Apr 2013, 7:06 pm

Why would you have to re-adjust your identity? It is not as though you weren't autistic before. The label doesn't change who you are, it just gives an explanation for why you are that way.


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25 Apr 2013, 7:10 pm

PsychoSarah wrote:
Why would you have to re-adjust your identity? It is not as though you weren't autistic before. The label doesn't change who you are, it just gives an explanation for why you are that way.


I agree. It does explain things. But just because you are told you have it does not mean that you are any different. You are who you are. The diagnosis just provides you with an understanding of why you are you (or at least elaborates on it).


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25 Apr 2013, 7:21 pm

Welcome! :)


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26 Apr 2013, 12:04 pm

PsychoSarah wrote:
Why would you have to re-adjust your identity? It is not as though you weren't autistic before. The label doesn't change who you are, it just gives an explanation for why you are that way.


I thought I wasn't autistic, now I know I am. It isn't me that's changed, but my whole perception of myself, including retrospectively, now has a different filter. I haven't changed, but my self-identity - the way I understand myself - inevitably has.



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26 Apr 2013, 12:07 pm

TenPencePiece wrote:
Welcome! :)


Thanks :D .

Do you appreciate all things cone-shaped, or is it traffic cones which are your particular interest? Just wondered...



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26 Apr 2013, 2:26 pm

Welcome to Wrong Planet! :D


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26 Apr 2013, 2:40 pm

zaneaspie wrote:
TenPencePiece wrote:
Welcome! :)

Thanks :D .
Do you appreciate all things cone-shaped, or is it traffic cones which are your particular interest? Just wondered...

lol well it's a fading interest, but traffic cones it is. There was a big cone appreciation thread in the random discussion forum!


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26 Apr 2013, 3:15 pm

TenPencePiece wrote:
lol well it's a fading interest, but traffic cones it is. There was a big cone appreciation thread in the random discussion forum!


Quite right. Traffic cones are rarely given the credit they're due.