SomeOddChap wrote:
Relief? Anger? Disbelief? Elation?
Very, very offended.
Like -- "I know I'm different since age 8, but not like
THAT!".
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And why?
I was an ignorant 10 year old.
It was 2005, and there were no concept such as 'high functioning autism' or autism without intellectual disability.
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1) Who first brought it up to you? (A parent, doctor, classmate - or did you read about it yourself?)
I honestly cannot remember.
Likely a teacher or a professional.
And likely someone who do not know what to do with me -- because they've never seen an autistic without intellectual disability either...
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2) Had you heard of it before?
That time all I know then was that there's only classic autism; nonverbal, intellectually disabled, dependent, cannot keep up in mainstream -- which then, I clearly am not.
I've only learned what autism without intellectual disability is at age of 14; over 4 years after my 'first diagnosis', during my 'official (final) diagnosis'.
That's when my feelings changed.
... Afterwards, that's also when I first had internet at home... And lead me in this very forum a year after.
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