Treated differently my whole life. Like a step less severe than the patronizing way people treat the visibly disabled kids in school

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i always felt different, people started making jokes about the possibility of autism, being called an airhead, space cadet, i started to research and take assessments on my own until i recognized what patterns/symptoms i wanted to bring to my doctors

5

I read the DSM-5 entry many times and took the RAADs R test many times and did another autism spectrum test multiple times and had friends tell me so

4

I was always told that I was different. My family joked about me being on the spectrum. Then as an adult, I had a realization, what if I was??? That would explain everything! Lo and behold😂

3

Also high functioning autistic here! Figured it out when I was in a psych class in college; realized I had most of the traits and experienced a ton of sensory overload when I was in high school and that I was prone to burnout

1

always felt like i was different from everyone else. i have always had social problems. when i was younger teachers just assumed i couldn’t speak english bcs i never spoke 😭 i’ve always struggled to make friends and never felt like a normal person. socializing and the bright lights at school gave me extremely bad headaches. people always treated me like a kid and infantilized me and i never understood why. i started to read up on autism in women and realized i related to almost everything

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