Cairns, Queensland... New discovery

[arithmetic]

Hi
I'm good at math, so someone asked me to teach his autistic daughter. "Autism?" I said - " I don't know anything about it."
Still, he needs the help, so I got into studying what her experience of life is.
Then I began to recognise a bit more than I had expected, and took an online test for autism. It came out positive to my surprise. I tried again using a different government sponsored test and got the same result.
So I'm autistic. I'll be 69 in a few weeks, and looking back it's been hell. Now I know why.
As for what I hope to find here, I don't know whether support groups exist around Cairns, nor whether a support group would help.

 

[TBRS1]

Welcome!

Uh, yeah.

I was 62, found out, and discovered why life had been hell.

For me, that was the first part of learning to deal with it.

The second part was discovering that it wasn't just me, and I wasn't alone.

Now I talk to other people who, in some sense, are like me. That's been the third part.

I don't know of support groups, though. Although Queensland is very close when I type, it's physically a very long way away .

 

[Judge]

I didn't begin to figure out who- and what I am neurologically speaking until I was 55.

I guess some of us are "late-bloomers". But better to know than go through life without understanding ourselves and all the social challenges that come with it.

Cairns....they have the most incredible armor museum. Best on the planet looking at their videos.