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Fohristiwhirl

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Hi,

I was diagnosed with AS aged 12 after having a mental breakdown and being hospitalised for 6 months. It was triggered by excessive stress with being at a demanding private school in UK combined with working hours of being a chorister. I am very glad to have been diagnosed earlyish as my strain of AS would typically go undiagnosed for many years.

I am now 26 and although life hasn't always been easy I try to get by somehow. I have had the opportunity to meet and get to know a lot of different people with ASDs via hospitals and currently a social self help group for "aspies". Most of the people I meet are suprised to discover my condition even though it affects my life profoundly just not in the ways they might expect. When I make new NT friends I tend to tell them pretty soon into the relationship once I have had a chance to get to know them and established some trust. I find most people benefit from knowing and it can reduce pent up resentment from people who may get annoyed by any idiosyncrasies I may have.

Anyway don't want to ramble on too much. Thanks :)
 
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Welcome! I hope this site works for you.
It’s awful that you suffered a mental breakdown at twelve, no kid should go through that.
 
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Fohristiwhirl said:
Hi,

I was diagnosed with AS aged 12 after having a mental breakdown and being hospitalised for 6 months. It was triggered by excessive stress with being at a demanding private school in UK combined with working hours of being a chorister. I am very glad to have been diagnosed earlyish as my strain of AS would typically go undiagnosed for many years.

I am now 26 and although life hasn't always been easy I try to get by somehow. I have had the opportunity to meet and get to know a lot of different people with ASDs via hospitals and currently a social self help group for "aspies". Most of the people I meet are suprised to discover my condition even though it affects my life profoundly just not in the ways they might expect. When I make new NT friends I tend to tell them pretty soon into the relationship once I have had a chance to get to know them and established some trust. I find most people benefit from knowing and it can reduce pent up resentment from people who may get annoyed by any idiosyncrasies I may have.

Anyway don't want to ramble on too much. Thanks :)
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Sabrina said:
Welcome! I hope this site works for you.
It’s awful that you suffered a mental breakdown at twelve, no kid should go through that.
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I attended a private school in the UK and if you're autistic That makes it worse, mine was a Day school -which has a small number of pupils ,that made it worse .
 
I am glad you were at least diagnosed early.
I think it will help you understand even when it seems
very hard to grow or change.
I lived through a harrowing time in school by age 12 which was very hard to hide and keep to myself.
Somehow I did. Then I was home tutored for highschool.
Don't think I could have kept it hidden then.

I didn't have a mental breakdown until I was 37 that hospitalised me. I also had GAD, panic disorder and agoraphobia then. But, I made it through.
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