• 73ʞk13
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    A long time I experienced myself as “normal”. It didn’t occur to me, that “all the others are weird” can’t be right. While reading about ADHD a friend of mine also read about Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. He often said (both teasingly and matter-of-factly) “You most certainly are autistic”. Eventually I had enough of it and looked it up. The Wikipidia article convinced me blazingly fast (“wrong planet syndrome”) and I got diagnosed within half a year by the age of 34 (i.e. 8 years ago by the time of writing).

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      It didn’t occur to me, that “all the others are weird” can’t be right.

      It hadn’t occurred to me until right now when I read that 🤦

      a friend of mine also read about Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. He often said (both teasingly and matter-of-factly) “You most certainly are autistic”.

      Did you ever discussed it with him after you got your diagnosis? What do you think was up with his confidently wrong assessment?

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        There was nothing wrong with his assessment and I’m still grateful that he nudged me in the right direction.