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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MadCatLady" data-source="post: 13599" data-attributes="member: 7960">I'm glad finding a neurodivergent community where you feel accepted for your authentic self has helped.  I'm finding acceptance amongst a wider circle then just those who identify as neurodivergent, and don't get me started on the current discourse that late diagnosed women have a different/less serious form of autism then those diagnosed in childhood.  Women are often dismissed or diagnosed as bipolar or borderline rather than autistic.  And as all diagnosis is based on observed behaviour girls learn at a very early age to hide unacceptable behaviours and try and blend in.  I look forward to the next government report on autism over diagnosis coming to the same conclusions as the ADHD review, that it's under diagnosed and under supported.  It's outrageous you can give such a diagnosis to an adult with a suggestion you look at the NAS website, which seems mainly focused on parents and children!I'm still in what my counsellor says is grief as it's all been such a shock.  I'm looking back at years of putting up with friendships that are not always validating and where they think it's okay to correct my behaviour.  I will be distancing myself from such people and possibly pruning out such relationships.  I'm now questioning the value of any relationship dependent on me pretending to be something I'm not.  Given I'm in burnout and only seeing a very limited group of safe people this may just happen without any effort from me.  The NHS rotas for junior doctors were brutal and as nurses we often dealt with newly qualified doctors so exhausted and overwhelmed they were in tears.  This is without adding neurodiversity into the mix.  I often wonder what happened to some of these longer term as back in the 80s and 90s relatively few left medicine altogether once qualified.  I also remember doing 8-10 day stretches as a student nurse and being so tired by day 7 onwards, but I was thankfully in my early 20s with much more energy.Is medical retirement an option?  And then finding things to do that don't cause regular burnout?</blockquote>

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