I told people I suspected it was ASD and I got lots of raised eyebrows and ‘she’s not because she gives eye contact/her language is great/she doesn’t flap or rock etc.’
The adult women I questioned, none of whom had any learning disability, mentioned finding certain movements and behaviours either enjoyable or increasing at times of stress. By far the most common was finger picking.
I think that I’ve managed to struggle by in employment for so long because I became so good at faking it. In fact, over the past few years this has caused me a lot of anguish because it had got to the stage where even I no longer knew who was behind the mask and I began to fear I was going mad because I just didn’t seem to know who I was anymore.
WOMAN WITH AUTISM
bence fakirlermiş :D
We had a set routine and saw few new people. We didn’t go on holidays or visit new places and did not have birthday parties. I did not have to cope with much change […] I think my parents were both on the spectrum and liked what was familiar. (Woman with autism)
Around 25 per cent of the women questioned had experienced bullying as children.
Otizm üzerne master ypıp kendsinn de öyle oldğunu fark etmemş
I had completed a Master's degree in autism, written five books on autism, spoken at many conferences, trained several thousand practitioners in autism and worked with well over a hundred individuals with autism. It seems ludicrous even to me that someone so immersed in both the theory and practice of autism could not ‘spot’ it in herself.