The TV presenter Melanie Sykes has announced she has been diagnosed as autistic at the age of 51. She has described it as a “life-changing” diagnosis and talked of her relief that things in her life now finally “make sense”.
“This week has been truly life-changing, or rather, life-affirming,” she wrote. She said her diagnosis had come as a huge relief and was one she would be celebrating. “I now have a deeper understanding of myself, my life, and the things I have endured.”
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