Originally Posted by
CharlotteCD
I've always showed autistic signs, and attention deficit disorder. I struggle with really strong fixations, and that's manifested itself positively (work projects) and negatively (cross-dressing, eating disorder, not doing my work) and so on.
It was my late 20's that this was actually first brought up as something that I ought to look at, and my early 30's when this was actually confirmed. Does it make a difference to have been professionally diagnosed? Sometimes. It doesn't excuse me doing none of my work because I want to do other work from a team I work with, and put my efforts in there, but it's helpful to know when I have said something or need my feelings confirmed.