Could i have been mis-diagnosed with autism?
It is possible that you’ve been misdiagnosed, but nobody can confirm that here. You’d need to be re-evaluated by a doctor who specializes in autism spectrum disorders to find out for sure whether you really have it or not. People cannot grow out of autism, but they can improve significantly. Sometimes though people are simply misdiagnosed. If people are diagnosed with autism at a very young age they are often re-evaluated later, to verify whether the original diagnosis was correct. The symptoms and severity of autism vary a lot between individuals and some individuals are more high functioning than others. If you have autism at all, then it’s probably mild and may not affect your life that much anymore. But to address your reasons for thinking you’re not autistic: 1) Not everyone with autism has difficulty understanding jokes, body language and things they’re told to do. This is one of the many symptoms of autism that only applies to some people with autism, not all. 2) Many people wit
