There are some friendships and friends I've lost and I haven't been able to repair, but I've realized that many of them have nothing to do with me, but simply personality differences and us changing life paths. I've realized that growing apart is a fact of life, especially as I grow older and people become more selective about their friends in general. I have a good sense of who really with worth keeping and who really values me as a person.
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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.
07 Jun 2013, 3:07 am
