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Originally Posted by MiddayNap
I have been speaking to a counselor at university and, one day, something I said prompted her to suggest I look into Asperger's-or what is now referred to as "high-functioning autism". I suppose I'm conflicted. When first I read about autism (it's a very interesting topic) I found myself able to relate quite a lot with what I was reading. I was suspicious, but ultimately decided I must be oversimplifying. Time passed, and relatives showed concern that I may have Asperger's, but that was due to them misidentifying my tics as "stims". And then came the conversation with the counselor. There are certain things that make it difficult to brush the possibility aside, as I would be able to do with a suggestion of schizophrenia, for instance. The list is rather long and so I won't write them here. If asked, I will indeed.
To get to the point, my question is addressed to those who were diagnosed in teenhood or adulthood and is as follows:
What prompted the diagnosis and why did it come so late?
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I was diagnosed with Aspergers (then later switched to PDD-NOS) as an adult (sometime in my late 20's I think). I fell backwards into the whole thing. I went to see a therapist with my soon to be ex for relationship troubles and the woman got one good look at the two of us and suggested we get individual therapy first, so we did. She ended up being my t for awhile and she was the one who mentioned autism to me. She thought I was an aspie so she pushed for the evaluation.
My childhood was weird and dysfunctional, so even though all the adults in my life said there was something wrong with me, no one thought to take me to a doctor to get that checked out. I was also not really a behavior problem at school so none of my teachers ever complained and got me to talk to someone that way. I would have been dx'd as a child if my mom could have been bothered. But it did not work out that way for me.
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(dx list: DID/PTSD, ASD, GAD, OCD, LMNOP)