This confirmation has been validating, even if the fact I can’t get an official diagnosis because doing so as an adult is difficult as hell, which occasionally makes me feel like a fraud. But it’s still been conflicting feelings. The validation is, very nice, I have to admit. But, as I’ve processed other feelings have come up. Including a sense of injustice that I’ve had to mask/normalize all my life just to “fit in” or mesh with normal society instead of just being me, fully and authentically