I also have a peter-pan complex...and fear growing up or growing older. I feel like time is already running out and I'm 23.
Anyway, at 5 I wanted to be a baker, at 10 I wanted to be a veternarian, at 17 I wanted to be a writer, and now I'd like to finish up my degree and work as an autism consultant.
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Given a “tentative” diagnosis as a child as I needed services at school for what was later correctly discovered to be a major anxiety disorder.
This misdiagnosis caused me significant stress, which lessened upon finding out the truth about myself from my current and past long-term therapists - that I am an anxious and highly sensitive person but do not have an autism spectrum disorder.
My diagnoses - social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I’m no longer involved with the ASD world.
10 Aug 2011, 12:14 am
