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Why late disability diagnosis brings complicated emotions

I finally got my autism diagnosis at 35 and I keep going back and forth between relief and grief for all the years I spent thinking I was just broken.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're processing how a new understanding of yourself reframes decades of self-perception and missed support.

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