Theme
11:24pm
February 5, 2013
remembering being 5
How was I not diagnosed when I was 5?
The times, likely. I’d have been diagnosed by two or earlier, these days. Knowledge of autism didn’t propagate instantly and still hasn’t.
Notes:
ladygreyheart reblogged this from autistic-mom and added:Being thought of as a disease took my childhood and made me very cynical and actually accelerated my mental illness on...
adelened reblogged this from feliscorvus and added:Another datapoint: I was diagnosed as ADD when I was 7, in 1989ish. (I was born in November of ‘81.) And a lot of the...
autistic-mom reblogged this from feliscorvus and added:The times, the location, being a little girl … What did I do so “wrong” to get caught where most could have hidden? I’ve...
feliscorvus reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:Yeah. The times and if you’re phenotypically female. I was born in 1978 and apparently identified as having “social and...
mttheww likes this
withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:The times, likely. I’d have been diagnosed by two or earlier, these days. Knowledge of autism didn’t propagate instantly...
aratingas likes this
murderboyfriend likes this
lindsayface47 likes this
witchyautisticweirdo said: I ask myself the same question, looking back.
chavisory said: It’s a real good question in my case, too.
madeofpatterns posted this
27 notes