Intro - Late Diagnosis, Interests, etc.

[Jonn]

Thank you, you are kind! I love the font btw! I love writing in new fonts sometimes whenever I'm notating, so I may try this one!

Welcome.

I was diagnosed in my 20's.
I have AuDHD, executive dysfunction, partial face-blindness, and dyslexia.
Dyslexia makes complicated fonts difficult to read.
That is relatively common with those on the spectrum.

BTW:
I'm a compulsive jokester.
You have been warned.

 

[Jenisautistic]

Hello! Thank you for your warm welcome.
That's great to hear that the diagnosis helped you navigate the world better.
I'm still reading up on autism and trying to understand myself and my son better.

Thank you for your friendly welcome!
How was it like being diagnose early?
My son was diagnosed at 4 y.o. for level 2 ASD, he's 6 and will be 7 this year. I haven't really talked to him about it.
But if he ever has questions on his diagnosis, I would be happy to talk to him about it if he wanted to.
I feel that writing stories about the trauma can be very helpful. I used to journal a lot, and it helped me process how I was feeling.
IRL, I don't really have friends to talk to about past trauma nor PTSD/C-PTSD-related topics.
I hope that writing these stories brings you relief.

When you were in your early 20s, what made you realize that you have autism? For me, it was after taking the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) and the Girls Questionnaire for Autism Spectrum Condition (GQ-ASC) and scored really high.

Thank you everyone for your kind and thoughtful responses.

Well, I had epilepsy when I was little and some other symptoms that we weren’t sure of.

So I was definitely deemed disabled in someway, but I don’t know if it was actually defined as autism at the time

I started to live with my grandmother at about age one and she was very helpful in getting programs and therapy for me.

 

[Something05]

How was it like being diagnosed at a young age? Did you parents tell you about it?

I don't know if my parents told me about it at first, actually, the earliest I remember hearing about it was from my kindergarten teacher, she was having trouble with me or something, she started with "listen, I know you have Aspergers" and I had no idea what that she was talking about. By the time I was about 7 or 8 I was aware I had it and understood it to a basic extent. By my teens I understood it even more, though that didn't help much and I ended up making a fool of myself anyway.