This week Tallulah Willis, daughter of well-known actors, announced that she was diagnosed at the age of 30 and shared the relief that this late diagnosis brought with it. In my eyes, her article has enormous importance for many adults and children who are introverted, or strange or those who stick to the routine and the familiar.<\/p>\n
These are often very functional, smart and charming people. Why diagnose them? Why fix what isn’t broken?<\/strong> It is important to understand that at a young age these children have no integration problems at all and therefore it is very difficult to locate them and start treatment in time. At an older age, when the problems worsen and become fixed – the treatment is less effective.<\/strong><\/p>\n So, this brave young woman stood up and gave them a voice and explained what mental health professionals know and many parents find out too late<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Some of the introverted or rigid children come to treatment at the age of 14 or 15<\/strong>, when social demands increase. They already suffer more and the results are nor as good. After the diagnosis and treatment at any age, the same people share the terrible feelings they \u00absuccessfully\u00bb hid – anxiety, shame, a feeling that they are strange, a constant vague feeling that they and the environment do not understand each other. Constant tension.<\/strong> Tallulah also describes these feelings in a typical way and states that she went through years of depression, low self-confidence, eating disorders, difficulty interpreting the environment which leads to detachment and loneliness.<\/p>\n