Published on 12, July, 2020
People call me something. Although I call me me hence my choice of username. I am not sure what one writes in an introduction. I was diagnosed with ASD Asperger syndrome 84 days ago after 36 years and 84 days of not knowing and I am still getting used to that. Its funny (in the odd meaning rather than the laughing meaning) because afterwards it made sense in a way that other diagnoses or suspected diagnoses did not, even though one could tick a lot of boxes on symptom lists. For a long time I believed that I had avoidant, schizoid, dependent, schizotypal and obsessive personality disorders. Only the first two were penciled in as diagnoses for me. I understand that there are some overlap in criteria. I also experience dissociative disorder which I believe to be how my brain adapted to being autistic (and not knowing) to allow me to get through difficult situations by myself.
So I am about to click post, but I thought I would just add that I often I plan to write in the comment sections of newspapers I subscribe to online and I must have written 100s of comments but never clicked post. here goes.
Welcome.
Many of us here either have these problems or deal with people who exhibit challenging behaviour.
Hope you fit in and join in some of our discussions.