I'm in my fifties and just realized I might be autistic, and now I'm looking back at my whole life wondering what was real struggle and what was just trying to fit into a neurotypical world.
More people experience this than they realize.
He's experiencing how new self-knowledge can retrospectively reorganize decades of experience and self-understanding.
“Where Are You with Self-concept and how it forms?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.