Late Life autism diagnosis

I have spent a lifetime trying to find balance between how I feel inside and how the world responds to me. All my life, I am a stand and support for others to find their good, their true path. I enjoy introducing people and sharing everything I learn so everyone has the opportunity to gain all they can, which eventually led to becoming a psychotherapist. Someone recently described this helper part of me as, “when you are up, others are up.” Granted, training as a therapist was centered in learning about me, while sharing what I learn clinically and personally creates gifts I share with others.

I always believed I wasn’t smart enough. I never felt I could fit in anywhere—I was and am socially awkward, never feeling as cool as others seemed to be no matter how I mimicked clothing, hair, styles, cars—never feeling I belonged. I experienced supporting others only to have them sideswipe me with harms.

I am now in my 60s and still seeking answers. I write memoir style, my dissertation researched memoir and creativity to process trauma. I am writing again and hoping to publish my process with clients in the next years, while the memoir is seeking my attention—this late autism diagnosis and the ways I was struggled in relationships and careers, how it was so hard to find myself over my lifetime.

I am building my writing privately and working to fix a messy Substack.

You can find me on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/dr.danielle_wise/#