mid-life diagnosis make you feel cheated?

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To some extended I felt cheated, but then I regret many things I've said and done as well as those things I've never said or done.

If after my diagnosis, I really didn't understand.

Having a better understand my have me working today, instead of being told I was no longer welcome.

I agree with this statement as well. On one hand, I have seen how people who have "diagnoses" of various kinds get defined by their diagnosis and sometimes they use their diagnosis as a crutch, a fallback or an excuse. I did not have a fallback. I just had myself.

Also, I had to learn coping skills which I am not sure I would have learned if I had a diagnosis before.

Life would have been easier in many ways (such as getting school accomodations and such) but in other ways I feel that a diagnosis would have hindered me (getting into relationships and reaching a point where I would have to explain that I have this syndrome would have made things really awkward IMO).

So, I am just like live and let live. I know now. I can now move forward.