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A personal (very late diagonised) #ActuallyAutistic perspective on #change.
For me coming to understand myself better as a result of a very late #autism diagnosis led to some very gradual but significant changes.
Three and a half years on things are very different.
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A personal (very late diagonised) #ActuallyAutistic perspective on #change.
For me coming to understand myself better as a result of a very late #autism diagnosis led to some very gradual but significant changes.
Three and a half years on things are very different.
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This isn’t the result of a ‘throw everything up in the air and see where it lands’ kind of change, although I’ve done a fair bit of that in my time.
What has been happening is that I have been getting to know myself - the truly autistic ‘me’, not the people pleasing version.
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What has been happening is that I have been getting to know myself - the truly autistic ‘me’, not the people pleasing version.
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This takes time. There’s no rushing it. It has taken even longer to accept and appreciate essential autistic qualities and perspectives that the neurotypical world regards as defective or odd.
But very gradually, like the changing of the seasons, my life is being transformed.
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But very gradually, like the changing of the seasons, my life is being transformed.
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