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Feeling Like I’m From Mars: Late Autism Diagnosis, with Gary Hawkins
What happens when you grow up feeling like you don’t quite fit, and you spend decades assuming the problem is you?
In this episode, I speak with Gary Hawkins, a long-serving NHS clinician who was diagnosed as autistic later in life. Gary’s story is not neat or linear. It includes childhood chaos, being labelled “unteachable,” boarding school, the traumatic loss of his father in the Falklands, years of masking in professional environments, severe burnout, misdiagnosis, medication that didn’t help, and eventually, a diagnosis that brought clarity rather than cure.
This is not a conversation…
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