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FrankStein
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04 Apr 2017, 2:00 pm

This is a major, high visibility article from the CNN site:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/02/healt ... index.html



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04 Apr 2017, 4:10 pm

Thanks for posting the link, I related to these quotes in particular:

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I distinctly remember as a child feeling different and behaving differently to other girls. I simply remember thinking that everybody else seemed to kind of get it. Everyone else seemed to know what to do and how to do it, like there was an instruction manual that I'd lost and they all had.


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I think getting a late diagnosis is like that. Suddenly, you think, that's why I did that, or that's why that happened ... I felt different and I didn't know why. Now I know why and it's very reassuring.



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07 Apr 2017, 8:55 pm

I love the analogy to the end of "The Sixth Sense" as it's really how I felt when I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was 28. I finally knew why I was different. Throughout my childhood, only those who were low functioning were diagnosed, and it was mostly thought of as a male thing. I had been misdiagnosed as well, with learning disabilities and eventually depression. The first misdiagnosis was mental ret***ation.(I won't use the actual word because it's become a slur) Even as late as 1994 when I was a senior in high school, a speech therapist said that "if there were such a thing as a little bit autistic," that would fit me.