I got diagnosed young and didn’t get a lot of the support you’re talking about. It was more like they threw ritalin at me and expected me to be normal now. Also, Ritalin was terrible.
I think it has less to do with the early diagnosis and more with the public perception when the diagnosis was made. There’s more understanding now than before.
Yeah sorry when I said support a lot of what I meant was the understanding part. Simply having a diagnosis changes a person’s perception. That’s what I was lacking growing up as I’m sure many like me can attest.
Simply having the acknowledgement I’m different and maybe I’m loud in class for a reason that I’m not to blame could have helped with my at times crippling self awareness and internal criticism.
I’d argue a lot of my negative perceptions of myself and the world around me stem from having to grow up alone and struggling in silence for all those things neurotypical people take for granted.
I got diagnosed young and didn’t get a lot of the support you’re talking about. It was more like they threw ritalin at me and expected me to be normal now. Also, Ritalin was terrible.
I think it has less to do with the early diagnosis and more with the public perception when the diagnosis was made. There’s more understanding now than before.
Yeah sorry when I said support a lot of what I meant was the understanding part. Simply having a diagnosis changes a person’s perception. That’s what I was lacking growing up as I’m sure many like me can attest.
Simply having the acknowledgement I’m different and maybe I’m loud in class for a reason that I’m not to blame could have helped with my at times crippling self awareness and internal criticism.
I’d argue a lot of my negative perceptions of myself and the world around me stem from having to grow up alone and struggling in silence for all those things neurotypical people take for granted.
Sometimes a simple label is support enough.