CockneyRebel wrote:
I'm on the spectrum. I was diagnosed at the age of 5 and a half.
Early! Take your age. Add a year or three and that was when I was diagnosed because even at a very young age I learned how to mask.
The downside of going through most of ones life without knowing is that I could have avoided so much stress had I known and I would have totally avoided severe mental burnouts which took years to revover from.
The plus side of not knowing was that I got to work on the railway for nine years, which is the longest lasting job that I ever had!