I'm realizing that a lifelong collection of behaviors and an opinion of a medical professional should be enough to tell me I'm likely autistic which should be like, a bit of a duh moment. But give me a break here
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Oh! Well congratulations on starting your journey- if I can, I totally recommend the autism in women subreddit, the ladies with 'tism in my life have found it really affirming and helpful!
To be fair as you said about women/afab people— but anecdotally I am a living example of the same phenomenon 😅 I uh, was the last to know (my parents knew, friends knew, psychiatrist knew…)
i’m a 32 y/o afab and I randomly decided to take an online self-assessment a few months ago that basically was like “uh, YEAH.” but interestingly it told me a lot about HOW my autism manifests, which is exactly none of the ways people look for in young children (social behavior for example)
The sheer amount of characters I have had affectations for that are kind of "stereotypes" of the spectrum community's favorites has given me pause many times, but I think in these dire times, it's probably best to just ... leave that discussion where it is.
That's the thing, I don't fit much of the "stereotypes" I was exposed to but as I grew up and became a little more observant of why I did things/had people make observations that I realized there's other ways it presents. But also yes, now does not feel like the time to get an official diagnosis
I got diagnosed at 17 and 9 months. This is after I had to drop out of highschool because they couldn’t (or rather, wouldn’t) accommodate my needs. I try not to ruminate in my anger about how easily I was denied, but it’s hard. Having my diagnosis was a breath of fresh air. Finally I was understood.
not a woman but yes, for a long time this stuff gets chalked up to a personal problem solved by just working harder to be a better more normal girl lol. which is why a lot of terfs, many parents of trans men, accuse transness of simply being an autistic trait, and autism of being curable. genius
yeah! everyone who's not a cis man gets ingrained in them from a very young age about how we're supposed to behave and how to be nice and agreeable and polite in society that those things get naturally masked as "I need to behave and fit in"
I think it's more that we have only had the option to have that diagnosis very recently, instead of something like bipolar or borderline. Autism used to be for special little boys exclusively, because you needed a special interest in trains, specifically, or something like that.
AFAB here, got diagnosed last year with ADHD with signs of autism has well. It’s a weird experience finding out as an adult. I see it as a new chapter to understand myself more throughly but it’s also just..weird. I wish you good vibes on your journey
Don't worry, I was also the last person to figure out I was autistic
Apparently it was so obvious to my therapist that she thought I already knew but didn't want to talk about it so she didn't bring it up.
Apparently making a PowerPoint for your first session is really autistic.
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It’s par for the course
Huge giveaway
Apparently it was so obvious to my therapist that she thought I already knew but didn't want to talk about it so she didn't bring it up.
Apparently making a PowerPoint for your first session is really autistic.