Dr. Alex George

She said, why will this be any different?

So I've started it.

It's a big process.

You've got the questionnaires, endless questionnaires that you fill in that take a long time.

And then you do your interview processes.

So developmental interview, which is two hours with one clinician and a different clinician does your assessment where they test you doing all these different things, which is crazy.

I didn't look into a talk because I wanted to go in blind and not understand what was going to happen.

But you're constantly thinking like, is this a double bluff?

What's going on?

A fascinating process, and it's been really unmasking.

I'm now just at the stage, as we speak, where my family are going to be doing the assessments.

They talk to them to look at what you're like throughout your life.

And so I don't actually know the answer.

If you were to ask me right now, do I think that I'm likely to be told I'm autistic, I'd say probably yes.

The more that I've done the assessment, the more that I've myself been unmasked.

I walked out of a developmental conversation, and I said to my mum, I don't think I've ever felt...

So unmasked in my life, but not necessarily positive or negative way, but almost a sense of like things that I thought were my personality might actually be autism.

Things I thought were my own quirks might actually be autism.

And I don't know how I feel about that really.

Like, who is me then?