Why am I here?

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Why am I here? Why are any of us here? I had a diagnosis late in life that made a certain sense of the way I am and why I never have fitted into what passes as 'normal' in our world. Especially as a woman, and for me this is an especially big deal. 'Normal' female company scares the holy s**t out of me, and it's nice to have a reason to be able to legitimately disengage from that. But on what basis? My diagnosis confuses me in that I don't quite know how to take it as either 'validation', or as proof all along that I was extremely atypically eccentric. I would love to know what others think, and perhaps especially women, because women are still rare on the spectrum, and thus somewhat unaccounted for.

Hey Perdido welcome.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Thanks, guys! I am still finding my feet, and still confused about my diagnosis. Well, not the diagnosis as such, but rather its implications for my identity. I imagine people do struggle with this if they have a diagnosis in their 30s or 40s. I'm reading a good book called 'Very Late Diagnosis of Asperger's Syndorme' by Philip Wylie. It's extremely informative and useful.