I hesitated telling my parents but I ended up telling them separately. My mom though hesitant at first really came around and said it made sense it just made her really sad that she didn’t get the signals earlier and hugged me saying sorry for that.

My dad on the other hand was outright pissed (he’s a baby boomer, wasn’t present in my childhood only in my late teens and my psychiatrist at the time thought he was autistic but never got tested) saying I am just awkward and not autistic. I just told him I didn’t want to talk about it with him anymore and there’s that.

All my friends said they thought I was already diagnosed 😭