How is autism actually treated? You hear people saying the diagnosis changed their kids life or it’s important to be diagnosed early, but how?
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Finding out you’re autistic in your mid 20s or beyond is helpful but rough. “Ooooh…” to pretty much your entire life. Higher functioning autistic people who go undiagnosed are square pegs trying to fit into a round hole in a sense that’s really hard to understand unless you go through it.
You hopefully learn some coping mechanisms, you play the part, but the thought of being diagnosed different, especially in your *brain* of all things, is terrifying.
An early diagnosis means a few things. It’s not a surprise or huge deal to the kid later on in life. Your brain works differently, that’s how it is, here’s how you make it work in this world built for people whose brains work this way. Think lefty in a right handed world. Ideally, all the coping mechanisms one would need are taught to them young, rather than self learned over a lifetime. They aren’t shocked to find out at the age of 30 that many of the things they’d struggled with their entire life were just a difference in how the brain works rather than some fault of their own- they’re just told young that they’re wired differently.
Sorry, haven’t spoken much about treatment as that’s not really my place to, but that’s why an earlier diagnose is important.
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