Coping with an autism diagnosis at an older age

Coping with an autism diagnosis at an older age can be challenging for several reasons:
- Personal Perspective
- Perception by the Environment
- Self-Image and Identity
About living with autism
About living with autism

Coping with an autism diagnosis at an older age can be challenging for several reasons:
- Personal Perspective
- Perception by the Environment
- Self-Image and Identity

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…

Ego Death ...never heard of it
...but it happens to me a lot, no doubt about that
Seems like a nice title for a dark poem, maybe something for a metal song, doesn't it?