How did you feel when you were diagnosed?

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I don't think I would have got diagnosed if it weren't for my sudden behaviour when I started school. I was a very typical baby and toddler, and I reached all the milestones at the very average ages, and I was never behind nor ahead of the other toddlers at nursery. My social interaction with other children was even just ordinary for a 2 to 4 year old. But I think it was the shock of the sudden ''Autistic'' behaviour when I started school which was why the teachers and my parents were really worried. I had to be took to the doctors, took to therapists, took to special meetings, ect, from the age of 4, right up until I finally got diagnosed at 8 (so it took 4 years to figure out what was wrong). They didn't just want to diagnose me as a very little child under the age of 5 because sometimes children go through phases then grow out of them and turn out as NT. But it was still a bit of a shock, being I was a typical baby and toddler, then on to a massive eruption of personality changes from the last day of August to the first day of September 1994. Maybe I did have an NT brain, then it suddenly scrambled itself to an Autistic brain overnight, just to make me and my parents unhappy.