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post - diagnosis with ASD Aspergers as older adult

kittythehare

 I am 53 years old, married,have a good job, a degree and professional qualification, and live in a quiet corner of SW Scotland. Last summer I was diagnosed with Aspergers. The diagnosis came as a relief and has really helped me to understand why I am as I am!

I have found the NAS very helpful. However, I now feel that I am left kind of high and dry. There are no support networks in my area, nowhere that I can go to meet other Aspies socially. My husband is wonderful, of course, and my family but sometimes I could do with a chat with someone who's not a close relative. I get rather depressed at times because I feel very isolated.

I am also trying to cope with peri-menopausal symptoms but don't want to go to my GP because I don't want to take drugs/HRT etc.

All in all, I really feel like I'm climbing the walls some days. I shut down and feel totally alone.

Is there anyone else out there who is in a similar situation or who has any helpful suggestions? Thanks for reading.

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  • Hi there,

    I am also a woman with Aspergers diagnosed in my fifties and was living in Dumfries and Galloway for a while.  There are other aspies out there, the problem is finding them and connecting with them.  Further north there is a very good self help group ARGH - autistic rights group highlands (great name don't you think?) http://www.arghighland.co.uk/ . I know someone who has set up self help groups in the south east of England, simply by contacting doctors and psychologists who might have contact with people with ASC to advertise the group http://www.gaspergers.com/.  Women from another planet is edited by Jean Kearns Miller.  You also might find useful a booklet published by ASK - autistic spectrum kiwis, which details adults responses to diagnosis, it is available via their website http://www.asknz.net/.

    There is also a relatively inexpensive annual conference/retreat run in the UK by and for autistic adults, some people come from Scotland to this (and from as far afield as New Zealand and Israel) http://www.autscape.org/

    Good luck on your journey - I for one have found the diagnosis helpful, and have met many people due to it.

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  • Hi there,

    I am also a woman with Aspergers diagnosed in my fifties and was living in Dumfries and Galloway for a while.  There are other aspies out there, the problem is finding them and connecting with them.  Further north there is a very good self help group ARGH - autistic rights group highlands (great name don't you think?) http://www.arghighland.co.uk/ . I know someone who has set up self help groups in the south east of England, simply by contacting doctors and psychologists who might have contact with people with ASC to advertise the group http://www.gaspergers.com/.  Women from another planet is edited by Jean Kearns Miller.  You also might find useful a booklet published by ASK - autistic spectrum kiwis, which details adults responses to diagnosis, it is available via their website http://www.asknz.net/.

    There is also a relatively inexpensive annual conference/retreat run in the UK by and for autistic adults, some people come from Scotland to this (and from as far afield as New Zealand and Israel) http://www.autscape.org/

    Good luck on your journey - I for one have found the diagnosis helpful, and have met many people due to it.

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