have personally come to terms with having autism. turning 40 and that's fucking with me because my life is at a standstill, but at least i don't live with parents. realizing that things are just going to take me longer and that if i push too hard i burn out. anxiety, depression, ptsd symptoms are all there but untreatable with therapy because talk therapists don't understand asd1, and won't believe you when you explain your experiences to them, are always looking for emotional subtext when it's not there. the only help offered to autistic people is to children with profound autism. so presently realizing my life is going to be long and weird if i'd like to do anything i actually want to do.
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