Navigating Late Diagnosis of Autistic Adults

A late diagnosis can have a significant impact on your mental health. For kids it can be psychologists who, in general terms, aren't doctors. And that's how I undertook the assessment period and received the diagnosis. So it is very different. Every country is different. From my point of view, it was with a psychiatrist, so a doctor. You know, with for kids the parents are there the whole time. And the parents provide most of the input. For adults sometimes, you know, your parents aren't around or they don't have the insight or they don’t want to or you don't want them to be... It's very tricky.