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Its_Me_Jackie

Its_Me_Jackie

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Hi everyone!
My name is Jackie and i was officially diagnosed with PDD-NOS at the early age of just 2 years old!

I do live a fairly normal life though at the moment i'm studying programming and have so far passed all my exams!

Anyways, i plan on staying here for as long as possible & hopefully along the way i can make a friend or two.

p.s
I found that when typing out "i've" it leaves a red underscore indicating that it's misspelled yet when i type out "iv'e" it leaves it be with it indicating that it's a valid word.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the website or just me...
 
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Nice to have you here @Its_Me_Jackie.
I lived my life before I was diagnosed at age 58.
Wish I had known sooner also.

I've never gotten the red-line spell checker here.
Guess it isn't turned on?
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Its_Me_Jackie said:
How come it took you guys so long to get diagnosed?
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There's different reasons. For people currently in middle or late adulthood, it's because when they were children, the criteria for autism was much stricter and recognised only the more severe cases, if it even existed at all.

The past criteria (it's missing the current DSM 5): Unstrange Minds :: Diagnostic Criteria for Autistic Disorder through the years

You can see that up until 1980, there was only schizophrenia. Up until 1987, you needed speech and language impairments (and this is when PDD-NOS first became a diagnosis). Asperger's only became a diagnosis in 1994.

(I'm aware of the ICD since that's what I was diagnosed with, but I can't find information on the past criteria for that. I imagine it's similar to the DSM past listed above)

For younger adults, it's because those around them when they were children had low awareness of autism. I am young enough that, theoretically, I could have been diagnosed as a child. But I wasn't diagnosed until young adulthood. The symptoms I've always had were overlooked because my speech and language milestones were met, I never had emotional/behavioural problems, and I did well academically. Despite always meeting the diagnostic criteria, I was never assessed therefore not diagnosed. It's only more recently that people (potentially) have awareness that someone like that could be on the autism spectrum and get them assessed for it.
 
Its_Me_Jackie said:
How come it took you guys so long to get diagnosed?
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Because Asperger Syndrome wasn't an official condition until 1994, I was born in the mid 80's and grew up in a poor area that didnt give me access to professionals that would have had the ability to diagnose that. I never even heardbof the condition until 4-5 years ago.
 
Its_Me_Jackie said:
I found that when typing out "i've" it leaves a red underscore indicating that it's misspelled yet when i type out "iv'e" it leaves it be with it indicating that it's a valid word.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the website or just me...
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Attention to detail and curiosity about how things work. It's a sign that you'll make a good programmer.

Welcome, by the way.
 
Its_Me_Jackie said:
Hi everyone!
My name is Jackie and i was officially diagnosed with PDD-NOS at the early age of just 2 years old!

I do live a fairly normal life though at the moment i'm studying programming and have so far passed all my exams!

Anyways, i plan on staying here for as long as possible & hopefully along the way i can make a friend or two.

p.s
I found that when typing out "i've" it leaves a red underscore indicating that it's misspelled yet when i type out "iv'e" it leaves it be with it indicating that it's a valid word.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the website or just me...
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Hello, I am pretty new here too :) welcome!
 
I absolutely love finding out how things are made!

I'll sometimes even take apart stuff and then try to figure out what each little piece does, and then i'll go and try and put it all back together.

It's almost like doing a puzzle the bigger the item you have the harder it becomes, but the smaller item that you have the easier it's to do.(At least for me anyways)

Nervous Rex said:
Attention to detail and curiosity about how things work. It's a sign that you'll make a good programmer.

Welcome, by the way.
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