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I'm a 32 year old man, and I have been recently suspecting that I have undiagnosed autism. If I am in fact autistic then it would explain a lot about why I am the way that I am, but part of me does not want to be diagnosed with it because I feel that I would use it as an excuse for not doing well in life; that I would start saying to people "oh that's just my autism" or "the reason I can't function is because my brain is broken, please don't expect too much of me." I don't know what can be done to help a person with autism, would there be any benefit to being diagnosed? If you were in my situation, would you want to know if you had autism or not?