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Another one diagnosed!

SpiderBaby
over 4 years ago

Following on from my thread last week, I have now been diagnosed with Asperger's. 

I thought I'd feel really happy but I'm still at the confused/denial stage. I do have aftercare available to me but im going to give it a few months to let the diagnosis settle in first. 

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  • over 4 years ago

    I'm glad that you know now. Knowing is better than uncertainty. That's good that you've got aftercare available. 

  • over 4 years ago in reply to Kitsune

    Yes, knowing has to be better than not knowing. Try and keep positive. it is not that you are now condemned to having the issues for life, it is that now you know why and you need to manage the issues to suit you, and you have a world of knowledge and experience to help you do that, and you can focus on taking advantage of everything that is special about you. Hugs. Look forward to a brighter future.

    Having said all that and trying to be positive to everyone about everything on the forums, and I know it is the right thing to do, and I am pretty much telling myself the same thing when I tell others, I think I have hit a down day today after being diagnosed a few weeks ago. I think there has been a little bit of "oh dear" in me today, thinking I am always going to have to work at it. I know I can do it, and I know in a few days I will feel better, but I guess we all hit that down trend here and there.

    I'll say it again, if only to say it out loud for me to listen to myself, stay positive, look to the future, get stuck into positive things, and all the best.

    Oh, and a spider baby is better than a baby spider. A baby spider will get eaten by other spiders, whereas a spider baby is a figment of Father Dougal's imagination based on a comedy line around a spider being treated like a baby, thereby bringing a smile to people's faces. Better being something based on imagination and bringing happiness than being something likely to be eaten. Stay being a SpiderBaby and don't become the BabySpider...

  • over 4 years ago in reply to I Am Who I Am
    I Am Who I Am said:
    Yes, knowing has to be better than not knowing. Try and keep positive. it is not that you are now condemned to having the issues for life, it is that now you know why and you need to manage the issues to suit you, and you have a world of knowledge and experience to help you do that, and you can focus on taking advantage of everything that is special about you. Hugs. Look forward to a brighter future.

    , being short on spoons and imagination, I just repeat the words of @IamwhoIam. Because it says it all really. you are the same person, you have all the same plans, dreams, projects and you are now better equipped to achieve them, armed with the knowledge and support in here.

    Just take it a day at a time. 

  • over 4 years ago in reply to I Am Who I Am
    I Am Who I Am said:
    Spoons? What is this talk of spoons I have seen here and there?

    It's the spoon theory  Slight smile

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory

  • over 4 years ago in reply to Tinyexplorer

    Spoons? What is this talk of spoons I have seen here and there?

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