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ASD or Aspergers or Autism - what am I?

Andrew73

Hi people

I'm still coming to terms wirh my new diagnosis as a 47-year old dad! What I wanted to ask is how do people with ASD/Aspergers/Austism diagnosis label themselves and to others. I'm a bit confused and not sure which is the best description.

Thanks

Andrew

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  • ASC, autism , or  "on the spectrum" are the most inclusive  and accurate   --- it is really not important is it ?

    having said that I love the term used in USA for really good groups of autistic developers which is  "the Happy Aspies". 

    They are called this because they dont care about labels and diagnoses and talking about meltdowns, shutdowns, depression, anxiety, socialising, equity/equality  because they are too busy writing the new Apps/code for the next generation of software.

    There are no "happy aspies" here BTW they dont waste their time in fourns  Laughing they could have written some more code instead Slight smile

    I would love to meet/interview some of these very tight groups

  • in reply to aidie

    I could have been a grumpy aspie kid and a happy aspie adult, without even bothering to care to even find out, were it not for the phobias and consequent anxiety it's potentially left me with, necessitating the cost of finding out, LOL.  Maybe one day, I just get to go back to my Star Trek obsession and stop caring, Lol.

  • in reply to Dawn

    There's nothing wrong with a Star Trek obsession - it works for me.  Smiley

  • in reply to Plastic

    Indeed watching Enterprise Series 4 as I type this :) Never a fan of Deep Space 9 but love all  the other variants even the politically correct Startrek Discovery - really looking forward to "Strange New Worlds" and the next "Picard" series :)

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