I’m late diagnosed autistic and adhd through the HSE and I can’t even begin to explain the trauma of being undiagnosed for so long, I started out doing a group for skills and it was through that the psychologist picked up on my behaviour (I never went seeking a diagnosis). In my assessment (which took the guts of over a year and a half with meetings every single week), they weren’t allowed to say anything until it was reviewed by a specialist, they weren’t even allowed to hint at it because autism and adhd have similar symptoms to other conditions, I had to have a IQ test, my partner and family members brought in for them to speak to my psychologist face to face and hear about what I was like as a child/at home etc. It genuinely feels like a slap in the face to see niamh saying she’s autistic after basically paying for a diagnosis and only had her second assessment. Not to mention the fake stimming she done for the FIRST TIME EVER on her first TikTok about it. It’s disgusting.