My diagnosis story
Hi, I'm Sara and I'm a 38 year old autistic woman. In 2016 or 2017 I reconnected with an old friend from CEGEP on Facebook. This friend regularly shared content about neurodiversity, autism and ADHD because they had just been diagnosed autistic themselves. As I had been diagnosed with ADHD in 2013 and already had an interest in neurodiversity since my first diagnosis, I read a lot of those posts and found them interesting. Then I started following the same neurodiversity and autism pages that those posts were shared from (most notably one page called Vellum and Vinyl ). I spent a few years reading about those topics and joined a few autistic Facebook groups (where self-diagnosis is widely regarded as valid!) and learned how much overlap there is in traits between autism and ADHD. I also had a coach who was autistic as well who I clicked with better than anyone else before, and I found a list of autistic traits in women that I identified with by 90%. S
