pcgoblin wrote:
How do you feel about being diagnosed relatively late in life?
I think the label would've been a problem when I was young...up to and including when I was a young
ish adult. In many ways I've been very fortunate in life. A number of good things happened for me over the years. But I think having the label "Autistic" would've made some of those lucky strokes unavailable to me. My life would not have been,
could not have been as good.
Note that I'm saying it is the
label that I think would've been a problem. Whether I knew it or not I
was Autistic but I did reasonably well for myself anyways. Autism may have actually helped me in some ways but I think the label could've hurt me.
Yet it was nice to finally find out that I was Autistic. It explained so much.
I could've stood learning about the Autism a decade or so sooner, though. Another couple of years delay and I might not have found out at all.
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When diagnosed I bought champagne!
I finally knew why people were strange.