This deeply resonates for me. I often wonder my ability to pick up explanations and drop them when I learn more or tweak them or accept both can be true and that there’s no need to know for sure anymore as it’s all helpful exploration, may seem to others as an insecurity or indecision or something I’m not sure. But that this for me is so fundamental to my being to be curious and wonder and dig deeper and be ok with what I find . So interesting , I’m finding your writing so helpful to dig deeper into my own autistic identity.
Thank you for your 'sharings'... i have found them so helpful and it has given me the strength to go forwards with my own assessment. I was diagnosed with ASC this week at the age of 50. Of the handful of people I have told, the majority have been surprised that I would 'want a label'. My mother especially feels I am pathologising my experiences. But for me knowing has made so many confusing things make sense. I did not seek a label but rather to gain a deeper understanding of myself.
Thanks Emma as always! I was particularly struck by that “expert” saying kids have adhd because they’re not running around in the fields. Well I was that kid in the fields, up a tree and on the water. I was outside more than I was in, regularly covered in mud! But I still had and have adhd! So nerr to that “expert”!
This deeply resonates for me. I often wonder my ability to pick up explanations and drop them when I learn more or tweak them or accept both can be true and that there’s no need to know for sure anymore as it’s all helpful exploration, may seem to others as an insecurity or indecision or something I’m not sure. But that this for me is so fundamental to my being to be curious and wonder and dig deeper and be ok with what I find . So interesting , I’m finding your writing so helpful to dig deeper into my own autistic identity.
Thank you for your 'sharings'... i have found them so helpful and it has given me the strength to go forwards with my own assessment. I was diagnosed with ASC this week at the age of 50. Of the handful of people I have told, the majority have been surprised that I would 'want a label'. My mother especially feels I am pathologising my experiences. But for me knowing has made so many confusing things make sense. I did not seek a label but rather to gain a deeper understanding of myself.
Thanks Emma as always! I was particularly struck by that “expert” saying kids have adhd because they’re not running around in the fields. Well I was that kid in the fields, up a tree and on the water. I was outside more than I was in, regularly covered in mud! But I still had and have adhd! So nerr to that “expert”!
Massive big nerrrrrr to her