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@DrSafariBoob hey I just got diagnosed with Austism spectrum and HSP at age 40... This was an eye opening experience and filled in a lot of blanks for me.

@lacybarry thankyou for introducing yourself, gosh it's a lot to find out about so late isn't it? My nuerodivergent journey started at 34 and I'm 37 now but really only began understanding my autistic self in the last year. So much from the past began to make more sense for me.

@DrSafariBoob oh my goodness yes! It's reassuring to know my ticks and sensitivities were not just being 'difficult' or 'weird' but apart of how I was responding and understanding myself and my environment. But I can definitely say , now that I know this about me, I would not change a thing about myself ... I feel the world around me is such a deep way that can be insanely beautiful and clear but also overwhelming and confusing... Haha but better a diagnosis late than never ! How has your journey been so far ? I'm learning to talk about it openly and not hide behind a pusaude of Nuero typicality.

@lacybarry well.. my journey here has been very rocky and via the diagnosis BPD. Which I'm fairly certain is just traumatised autism. I've done so much work on my self at this point in a bit sick of it. Now I'm paying more attention to my needs things are easier but there are still days where my brain just can't seem to put everything in order and just do what I need. It's very nice having understanding around why, it used to be extra confusing, now it's just confusing

I very much love having words for things and being able to connect with other people experiencing similar things. I often find nuerodivergent people expressing experiences and relating to them.

@DrSafariBoob thank you so much for sharing haha sometimes my brain just wants to take time to slowly feel everything around me fully, especially the subtle things often overlooked by a Nuero typical world that seems to be just about go go go. For the most part, if I indulge, my autism/ HSP can be a pleasure filled daily experience, getting nothing done but living in the moments ....when I think about it, maybe it's not me trying to fit into a Nuero typical world that doesn't understand but rather it is a world that has yet to embrace and understand a slower, de-stressed, calm life filled with many subtleties and cute nuances, where sound, smells and so much intrusive stimuli of a over productive world can be avoided for the sake of care and continplation.

@lacybarry I like this perspective