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Life whilst I didn't have an #autism diagnosis. A thread of my own experiences. Please share this. /1
I never would have communicated with anyone. I was always quiet and I preferred being on my own away from other people. /2
The amount I socialised during the time I didn't have an autism diagnosis was next to nothing. I never wanted to socialise with anyone. /3
I had my own interests and I would have spent hours on my own engaging in my own interests and doing not much else. /4
I hidden my feelings. Even at difficult times, I wouldn't have said how I feel. /5
I would have either done schoolwork, engaged in my own interests or slept. Nothing else. All this mostly on my own. /6
I got on with life but I never felt like enjoying it. /7
It was hard to cope with noisy environments and it still is. /8
It was hard to cope with crowded environments and it still is. /9
Today, I am slightly more social with platforms like Twitter. I had no social life during the time I didn't have an autism diagnosis. I wouldn't have even wanted to socialise. I was never motivated. /10
I hid all my struggles so it wasn't obvious that I was struggling so no one would have been able to tell that I was #autistic. /11
It only became obvious that I was #autistic when I really started to struggle with my #mentalhealth and really started to feel so overwhelmed that I could no longer hide my struggles and my feelings. /12
Life really wasn't that bad when I hidden my struggles for many years. It was when things became so overwhelming and my #mentalhealth really started to struggle and then things became much worse. Masking. I did it; no one even thought I was autistic when I did it. /13
Yes, I really do say life wasn't that bad. I didn't enjoy it much but it wasn't so bad because I didn't run into any problems. Things became problematic later in life. /14
And things got better after I got an #autism diagnosis! I wrote a thread earlier this week on how an #autism diagnosis benefited me. A happy ending to this thread after all! /15
Here is the thread to how an #autism diagnosis benefited me. /16 https://twitter.com/AutisticPb/status/1285883400373571585?s=20
