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When late diagnosis brings relief and grief simultaneously

I finally understand why I have always felt like an alien and got my diagnosis at thirty-seven but now I am grieving the person I thought I was supposed to be.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Understanding the truth of one's nature requires mourning the false self that was constructed for survival.

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