How did you feel when you discovered that you were, or suspected you were, in the spectrum?

[Roisin]

I think it was like grief in a way, the loss of an unsustainable way of living.
It brought permission to start validating what my body and mind had told me for years.

Immense relief with self compassion, confusion and frustration, heartbreak and anger for the child me that was failed, fear and a new sense of vulnerability.

Freedom and acceptance came much later, like years later, after I processed the traumas intermingled with my real self.

 

[Rachie]

Through the ASD diagnosis, and the subsequent resurgence of symptoms (especially sensory and stimming), everything that happened in Hebrews 12 and Romans 6 have come to pass. Since this isn't the religion forum, I will leave you to infer the pieces after that.

This is not the religion forum as you said. It is only now that I have been able to open these passages to read and you know they spoke to me so much, so thank you. We are not changing the topic. I just wanted to thank you. I saw this though today and it touched me as well Romans 7:15 and I wanted to share it with you and it moved me, but let's end it there.