SimplyWandering
Well-Known Member
As i eat my Birthday Cake today, i contemplate how many feel the need for a diagnosis to justify who they are as a person.
Those words from your doctor "you are AUTISTIC " somehow opens the doors to a world of understanding... and yet I can't accept my shortcomings. It's been many years since i realized I was different, but even now 10 years later I still feel like I have not truly accepted myself and that the diagnosis felt like "You are autistic, so what's next?"
So how does everyone else accept themselves, or does it require acceptance over time?
How am i supposed to accept myself when i feel that others cannot accept me?
Those words from your doctor "you are AUTISTIC " somehow opens the doors to a world of understanding... and yet I can't accept my shortcomings. It's been many years since i realized I was different, but even now 10 years later I still feel like I have not truly accepted myself and that the diagnosis felt like "You are autistic, so what's next?"
So how does everyone else accept themselves, or does it require acceptance over time?
How am i supposed to accept myself when i feel that others cannot accept me?