I think I'm backwards. I wasn't diagnosed with anything as a child, only an anxiety disorder when I was 14 and that wasn't even like, a REAL diagnosis, just a therapist saying Yes when I asked. (Same sort of thing happened with Bipolar, Depression, and ADD).
But the older I get and the more signs and symptoms I see getting talked about, the more I think...I may be autistic as well. If I am, then I'm pretty high functioning, hence laying under the radar for so long, but like. I just learned that feeling fabric with your lips, as a child and as an adult, is an autism thing. Disliking mint to the point I still use kids toothpaste at 20, obsessing over even numbers so much I ran into things as a kid bc I didn't want to make certain footsteps that would go against the 'code.' Looking back and still not being able to pinpoint WHY I never fit in, or WHY I couldn't ever do anything 'right' with other kids.
Like dude. I'm not opposed to being autistic, just probably woulda been nice to have answers sooner