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Just shy of 34 years, was a little bit disappointed to find out that when I finally decided to get tested and shared it with my mom, she told me she's quietly assumed my whole life and just never told me or did anything about it. I certainly could have used the resources, framework, and self understanding when I was younger instead of just thinking there was something wrong with me.
Something a bit like this happened with me. Apparently we did get an autism diagnosis sometime when I was a younger child, but we didn't ultimately do much with that. I ended up in a social group or two in school for a little while, but they sucked and I eventually left them and we kind of just forgot about it. Fast forward to grad school when I burned out and got diagnosed with pretty severe depression and it came up again that I was autistic and that at least some of the depression probably came from the frustration that comes from the friction between my differences and society. It got so bad that I dropped out of grad school mere months before graduating and I've been moping around at home bouncing from one ineffective psych treatment to another.
Not the first time I hear this from parents! It infuriates me! Let’s pretend Jimmy’s leg is not broken, it’s going to be fine… sure mum/dad, sure…