Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me 9pm BBC 2 12/10/2017

Still makes me cry when I read it! X

kindly posted this on one of the other Chris Packham threads, I wanted it to appear here too so I hope my copying and pasting works for once.

Chris Packham has just posted a thank you which is worth reading:
http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/news/aspergers-and-me-thank-you

Red Bull (joke) and alot of nervous energy! (not a joke) !! - hyper functioning on all levels......and then.....CRASH! - lol

I agree, where does she get her energy from? 

Gosh Ellie, how exciting! Wonder what they'll say...

(Where do you get your energy)?

I haven't been able to get on here for a few days and it's good to see how people are doing - nice to be able to' talk' without stressing about it.

BTW my gut feeling is that  my OH is not really all that NT either, maybe that makes a difference

Some people will just say "well that's the non-surprise of the century" and some will want not to believe it because it makes them uncomfortable. I did wonder whether my OH would be in the latter camp, but when I told him he just shrugged and said "well, you're still you", which was nice. 

I wonder what my dad will say. He doesn't know yet.

Funny that you are a programmer too! There aren't so many of us lady programmers about (bet >half of us are aspies though - Lol)

We have a young contributor on board who wants to put together a publication on special interests, Laura James et al, this forums members and hopefully nas on  board to help with message distribution? !

Would you be “in” if we gave it a punt? 

I tried twitter and couldn't get my bearings, it was my idea of communication hell. I wish I could do it. 

Do you think we can get NAS aware...Aspie (I.e ASD and aspirational) women’s day? Dream big...what is the worse that can happen! Hope you’re listening moderators! 

If you pardon the pun...Aspie women need balls and have balls! Lol x

You just tweet her that’s all....shes’s Aspie...and no one like s a busy inbox., 

Yay, well done Ellie, that's very impressive! xxx

Hey....us strange folk stick together right! 

WOW! Both for sending it and the reply!

Just heard back from Laura James (Odd girl out)

Scratch that I HAVE been telling him! Lol

Got ny nt other half to watch it..”that’s like you” he said......i’ve Been trying to tell him about my ASD since the start of summer...

i totally get your frustration...haven’t told any of my family.....yet

i’m 42 and your message so eloquently expressses my recent journey! X

I am a recently self-diagnosed 46-year-old woman (with professional assessment coming up soon - I decided to bite the bullet and go for a diagnosis) and totally agree, Elephant. If there was more about Aspie women in the mainstream press, I would have twigged a LOT sooner. As it was I read an article on BBC I think about a lady diagnosed in her 40s and though it could have been written about me. Then followed obsessive internet research on female Aspergers ..... another "oh" and a lot of lightbulb moments. Basically it explains what I thought was a whole tangled heap of weirdness, with a single answer. Then I asked my mother about my early years and she knew right away why I was asking. My grandad had Aspergers and she said yes, she thought it very likely that I do too.

What is interesting is that she watched the Chris Packham program, and has now  a) decided that I can't have Asperger's because I don't live on my own in the middle of the woods (I would love to live in his house btw, but no way I could ever afford to!) and b) come out with "you do know it's autism, right?"

So she clearly doesnt get that it's different in different people. And I think she has fallen victim to the Aspie = Sherlock Holmes, Autistic = Rain Man school of thought.

I don't actually mind finding out that I am autistic if it explains to me who I am!