After late Autism Diagnosis …Now What?

How people with a late autism diagnosis are perceived (and misundertood) in society.

Having a late diagnosis doesn’t mean that you are ‘healed’,
nor that the problems you’re having – but always tried to hide by masking – aren’t real problems or ‘solved’.
To most neurotypicals, masking autism seems like the most ideal thing you can do for making a ‘perfectly normal’ life possible, as if then there isn’t any problem about that anymore.

But to someone on the spectrum, masking can take so much energy that it causes heavy fatigue and in the long run even burn-out and chronic depression, making it much more a burden than a solution.  Besides, masking also means always hiding your true authentic self, causing very low self-esteem and even a feeling of total worthlessness, sometimes misdiagnosed as a personality disorder.

And no, autism is NOT a personality disorder,
although someone with autism can have a personality disorder.
You can read more about this HERE

What is important is that change should not be about adapting to the norm, but about greater well-being and fewer complaints.

 

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