I went my whole childhood without a diagnosis cause all the adults in my life kept kicking the can down the road saying I'd grow out of it. Didn't get diagnosed till this year, and I am about to be in my mid twenties. It was very validating to get the diagnosis. Gonna get checked for autism too
Can you elaborate on the validation part please? I'm about twice your age, and my assessment comes from comics and memes like this. And it's scary how close some of these hit.
I'm almost 30 and had basically every school counselor and social worker begging my parents to get me a diagnosis and they never did. I want to do it myself now, but I'm afraid that at my age it will just look like trying to get a prescription, what was the process like for you?