BeachLife
40's woman newly diagnosed
Hi, where to start? 
I'm recently diagnosed and am currently in the processing and acceptance stage. It's quite incredible this snowball effect of the more women who are diagnosed late in life, the more accurate info circulates about female presentation (hence me putting g pieces together) leading to this mega increase in later in life diagnosis!
In some ways , well in many ways it's been an amazing beautiful gift to finally understanding myself, to let go of guilt and wondering what's the matter with me. In other ways, I was surprised by the presence of some grief, I guess it's just part of acceptance.
The grief I think is mostly around me accepting that I probably haven't "passed" as neuro-typical as much as I thought I did! I simply put myself in social situations with other eccentric, unusual, creatively individual people mostly.. and it was when I tried to function in the mainstream culture World that I stuck out like a sore thumb. Lol.
Well, my first post, my first year knowing I am an autistic woman. I hope to make friends here and offer mutual support.
I'm recently diagnosed and am currently in the processing and acceptance stage. It's quite incredible this snowball effect of the more women who are diagnosed late in life, the more accurate info circulates about female presentation (hence me putting g pieces together) leading to this mega increase in later in life diagnosis!
In some ways , well in many ways it's been an amazing beautiful gift to finally understanding myself, to let go of guilt and wondering what's the matter with me. In other ways, I was surprised by the presence of some grief, I guess it's just part of acceptance.
The grief I think is mostly around me accepting that I probably haven't "passed" as neuro-typical as much as I thought I did! I simply put myself in social situations with other eccentric, unusual, creatively individual people mostly.. and it was when I tried to function in the mainstream culture World that I stuck out like a sore thumb. Lol.
Well, my first post, my first year knowing I am an autistic woman. I hope to make friends here and offer mutual support.
