Autistic identity

Discover insights on being an autistic mum from a UK counsellor. Explore personal experiences and support for being an autistic mum.

When you first realise you are autistic, whether through self-identification or formal assessment, it can be an unsettling time.

This post is about identity , a concept in my opinion necessarily co-validated by the individual and the group, within or near which the individual exists. I had set out to write a balanced, rational short piece on national and ethnic identity but what came out was my truth. A bit misshapen, a bit raw and ultimately inconclusive. On a positive note, it’s congruent. The dialogue I think, throughout life we continuously renegotiate our individual rights in the context of social

It may have been done for you in a sense, diagnosed in childhood following suggestions from educational settings, where certain autistic traits of yours had been noticed. Or you may have made it all the way to your fourth decade without any idea that you are neurodivergent...and then something happened. What was that something? What made you explore the likelihood of being autistic thoroughly enough to seek a diagnosis? Here’s my story. In childhood and all the way up until