I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …
- Posted on June 5, 2025
- By The Guardian
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I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …

I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I am still coming to terms with?