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I finally looked up the actual number of autistic adults in the US
I was reading a report from the CDC website last night and saw that over 5.4 million adults in the US are on the spectrum. I always thought the numbers were mostly about kids, so that really surprised me. How many of you found out about your autism later in life?
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casey9099d ago
Got my diagnosis at 38. Spent decades just thinking I was bad at being a person, missing social cues everyone else got. Seeing that number makes sense, a lot of us slipped through the cracks. It's a weird mix of relief and grief figuring it out so late.
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the_ruby9d ago
That relief and grief thing hits hard. Finally having a real reason for all those confusing years is huge. But it also hurts to think about all the time lost, all the needless struggle. Makes you wonder how school or work could have been different with the right help back then. So many of us were just told to try harder when our brains were wired different.
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