Mum opens up about living with undiagnosed autism after years of ‘uncontrollable panic’ and not understanding why she didn’t fit in.

Throughout her life, Louise Tuley, a special needs coordinator from Rainham, Kent, knew that she was different from everyone else – she just didn’t know why – until she was finally diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome.

WATCHING my 12-year-old daughter Ruby talk to her friends, I felt a pang. Staring at the ground and fidgeting, she was clearly struggling to interact – and I knew from bitter experience just how hard that was.

I’d always had a feeling that I was different. As a child I never had a best friend, instead flitting from group to group. I found it easier to hang around with boys, who didn’t like to chat endlessly. On the outside I may have seemed outgoing, but I felt as if I had a wall around me.

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