I actually know a lot of autistic people what were diagnosed at 50+. So don't worry. It is possible.
I can't say what it will mean for you but I can tell you what it meant for me in hindsight: I am still reframing my life before the diagnosis. So I go through all incidents again and view them with the diagnosis in mind. That changed my picture about myself maybe not 180 degrees but definitely 90 :) It also led to me coming up with healthier strategies to cope and to go through life. I have better friends now, sleep better and have a better outlook on life.
I can relate: The routines and comping strategies were how I got here. I had some that were good but a lot were less than stellar. Since I know, I have revised them to make sure I don't hurt myself every day of the week. I don't burn out as easily since I know what actually happens.
I believe that this is your opinion based on experience and accounts of people you know. Feel free to offer further insight if you wish.
Also, I don’t know much about apple computers, except they are a lot more expensive than the hardware they’re made of. Which I happen to know a little bit about.
Apple hardware
Although, after watching a lot of apple macbooks being disassembled and repaired (or attempted) by louis rossman, I believe him that apple is doing all they can in making their products unrepairable and don’t care about their customers enough to make louis‘ job obsolete.
They have been sued and paid millions in damages for anti consumer and anti competitive measures, btw.
If you could provide me with contrary evidence, I‘d be happy to believe you instead since this is part of „support“ imo.
What I do know a bit about are apple handhelds. Iphones, ipads and ipods.
And no, my ipad is not still useful. It is a massive pain in the ass to even start up and a constant security risk while apple makes it near impossible to even jailbreak the stupid thing although it would run insanely good with a small linux installation. The same goes for iphones btw.
Apple software
I do agree that linux is a lot tougher to understand than apple OSs. Even ubuntu which I‘m currently using is a lot of work if you‘re doing a complex setup while apple is mostly plug and play.
But there lies a more philosophical question. Do we need an OS that is so polished and perfect because it and the hardware is so locked down that apple can make it e waste with the push of a button?
Also, the support window of windows is comparable to apple. Windows 10 still receives updates until 2025 and works on machines as early as mid 2000s. That is 20 years of machines and 8 yrs of lifetime (2015 released).
So I‘d say both windows and linux are the better choice, while linux is the most consumer friendly (no ads, privacy friendly, free, open source, highly configurable) but a little more complicated than windows and a lot more complicated than mac os.
And yes, if you need the newest and best (statistically, you dont), dont care about cost or the environment and want it for your grandma to use, apple is your choice. Everyone else just does it for image reasons imo.
Btw. getting support for my iphone while still new has been a lot harder than getting support for ubuntu. And please dont forget that apple was sued to give support on their batteries. They are not our friends.
Better alternatives at the moment seem to be: Fairphone for phones and Framework for Laptops. They are environmentally friendly, fairphone is also fairly traded and both are highly repairable.
Very much so. But dumping on people who are not well is easy. So much so that it seems like an international competition. Glad to see some people still have empathy.
I didnt say that. But as someone else pointed out: I did make a mistake saying that windows in general does. But the other two do which still proves my point especially since unix is the base for mac os. Linux is the absolute craziest of the bunch since it pretty much rund on anything.
Sure. But the point was that apple is not unfairly but correctly being targeted with massive criticism for anti competitive and anti consumer behavior.
As someone who has years of therapy experience for things I shouldn’t talk unsolicited about: therapists absolutely help most of the time. But one big problem is pathologizing things.
A lot of people fit the criteria for mental disorders in their adolescence. Thats why certain disorders are not diagnosed until they are 18 (probably country specific as well).
That is why, while you are correct that it’s a possibility, it is not the only one and depends on many factors we as non professionals can not see.
Not sure op should directly be advised to seek help. We don’t even know (or I overlooked) who they are talking about.
People fall in love with their friends, have a crush on classmates (and misjudge that). Depending on age the person just needs to learn. I actually had that situation at the age of 14. Didn’t go anywhere.
Apple perpetuates this about apple. I have a 10 yr old ipad that is stuck on ios (not ipad os) 9 while unix, linux and windows manage to work on 20 yr old machine.
Exactly. Most importantly, „it is unclear if the autopilot was active“ is an admission of guilt in my book. A system that is highly critical (impacting steering, accelerating and decelerating a 2+ ton vehicle with multiple people on board) is unclear if active means they are completely clueless of their own products status and should be fully liable. You can not sell something like this at all. I feel like they (people in charge) should go to jail for negligent manslaughter.
Seeing you frothing at the mouth does give me some satisfaction, not gonna lie.
You‘re still oblivious to the fact that we may very well have misunderstood each other in the beginning and could have very well just discussed this in a meaningful way. You chose violence instead and I chose to let you hit a wall with me.
I suggest you think long and hard about the way you approach people. Just because someone is wrong does not mean you have the right to condescend on them and neither do you have the right to fault them for it. You started this by not being able to discuss in a healthy matter. This is on you and you alone.
The one and only db0 being awesome again! I would love to help. Sadly, mobile lemmy is not working for mod duties afaik. Both memmy and voyager dont help at all with that. Otherwise I‘m down. :)
I actually know a lot of autistic people what were diagnosed at 50+. So don't worry. It is possible.
I can't say what it will mean for you but I can tell you what it meant for me in hindsight: I am still reframing my life before the diagnosis. So I go through all incidents again and view them with the diagnosis in mind. That changed my picture about myself maybe not 180 degrees but definitely 90 :) It also led to me coming up with healthier strategies to cope and to go through life. I have better friends now, sleep better and have a better outlook on life.
I can relate: The routines and comping strategies were how I got here. I had some that were good but a lot were less than stellar. Since I know, I have revised them to make sure I don't hurt myself every day of the week. I don't burn out as easily since I know what actually happens.
I hope this helps you. Wish you all the luck. :)