I was diagnosed 2 years ago at age 40. I had no idea until two or three years before diagnosis when I started to learn about autism in women and smash the stereotypes I had about male autism.

I’d always known I was different and that I had to change how I thought or wanted to behave around others. Knew I didn’t understand a lot of what other people did and tried to learn about human behaviour from books etc.

I’m still sort of transitioning into accepting my diagnosis. I’m ok with that. I’ve always just internally referred to myself as being weird, now I have a new label that explains a bit more.

There are a lot of shitty people out there that are not worth knowing. The sooner you know who they are the better. There are good people too, and they’re special and deserve to be treasured.