Just over a year ago my husband self identified as autistic and we realized our kids were. We got them officially diagnosed in Nov/Feb. Hubs has felt I'm autistic too and I've gradually started to be willing to consider it, and now am at the point of really facing it. In the last few weeks I've compiled a 14 page document of my autistic symptoms (categorized to match the dsm for ease and with examples stories for things). I just had the courage to bring up the subject with my therapist in my last call with her and sent her the document this evening. Now I'm anxiously waiting until my appointment Tuesday to see what she thinks of it. 😬 Eep! I have such huge imposter syndrome I'll definitely be seeking an official diagnosis rather than self identifying, but this first step of seeing what my therapist even thinks feels big. We don't have much history (only 5 or so appointments already and lots of those were more focused on my kids as she's supposed to be our family counselor via our kids autism funding), so she didn't really give me an indication either way when I first asked what she thought, and now I've just dumped this on her.

Anyway, ummm hi. This is my first post here. Or in reddit at all. I've replied to others posts a bit and love reading the autism groups as I can identify with a lot of what's said. Thanks for being such a wonderful group of humans. I hope to join in more.