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Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 23 September 2025

Thing is, apart from the granddaughter we were all very late diagnosed. As in “in our 40’s”. And like these things tend to do, it tobogganed, I found out first, His Lordship always suspected he was ADHD, but not enough to cause issues until we exceeded his abilities and some Bad Things happened and I told him he was gonna get tested or he’d be a single man wearing his own bum as a hat (paraphrased). Then SIL realised from observance that hey you can be ND and …not be “disabled” (lotta internalised abelism in that family which is also why His Lordship took so long to get diagnosed) and WHOOPS, there we are. Which also allowed her and her husband to identify a lot of things in one of their daughters and get her to a psychiatrist and learning how to teach her emotional regulation and stimulus control before she turned into the betrayed-feeling anger ball the rest of us are.

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anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I so relate to this (particularly the ‘betrayed-feeling anger ball’ bit, lol). My kid got diagnosed in his early teens, which meant I did a heap of research to help him and to learn more about it, and also discovered how it presents differently in girls. Which explains a lot about my experiences as a child. Also in hindsight, my dad very clearly had asbergers (again undiagnosed - he was just ‘smart and eccentric’, as autism wasn’t a thing when he was young).

But maybe it was all just too much tylenol

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- Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  there is no tylenol in Australia
  
  how does the trump admin explain autism in countries where tylenol is not sold
  
  the corrupt trump admin are relying on the experts and other people to debunk the lies, this will help the share prices rebound
  
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  - anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah, I know, was just being funny
    
    Trump is continuing to create drama after drama, probably to keep everyone distracted from the Epstein files or play the market or something
    
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    Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    no, the Epstein files are the distraction from all the corruption and violence
    
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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’d be hells surprised, everyone agrees in hindsight my grandfather was autistic af, and he was born 30 years before paracetamol was available in Australia
  
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melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Or (regardless of diagnosis) it was just being difficult and bad 🙃

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