This!

This graphic is nice, but please follow thelink to the post that accompanied it on Facebook, especially if you really want to understand me at all. This describes my reasons for what I do daily spot on. I never recognised autism in myself until a friend was reading an article about Asperger's (not a thing in the DSM-V, but still), to understand a friend of ours better, and then he started to realise they applied to me, right down to trouble with proprioception and motion issues. He had me read it, asking me to keep an open mind, and I realised it, too. That's when I sought assessment, which was really hard in our area as an adult--it took a year to even find someone here. EKU had a five-year waiting list! But I was finally diagnosed, and I'm going forward with finding support and figuring out how it affects my life, what was missing all those years, and what can help now. I do wish I hadn't been missed for 57 years. It would have made such a difference. I wouldn't have spent all that effort and thought I was messing up for no good reason, when I was supposed to be 'gifted and talented'. I wouldn't have spent all those years spending such an effort masking that I actually lost myself for a long time and built up a huge amount of anxiety. But I'm hoping now that I can release some of the anxiety because I know the underlying issue finally.