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Diagnosis!

Technophobe23

To my great surprise, I received a letter today informing me that: "...I would agreee that you do present with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder and I can coinfirm that as a diagnosis."

The assessment process was very stressful and I felt as if I was on trial for falsely claiming to have Asperger's traits.  But apparently I needn't have worried.

Maybe they make the experience deliberately stressful to observe one's reactions? If so, it seems a bit harsh.   I had been feeling very depressed, as I felt certain that I'd get a negative.  Now, I'm feeling very relieved!

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  • I suppose it is almost a matter of logic that unless a person has a problem, they can't be helped - if they have no problem, they don;t need help!  I suppose this applies to 'impairment' too. I'm not personally looking for help in the form of active intervention - to me, knowing the reason why I have struggled in life from an early age, and still continue to find many things difficult (I'm talking about social things more than anything else - I have plenty of other traits but they are assets more than problems, to me) is help in itself.

    I have actually found that I've learned a lot in just the oast couple of years. Once I started accepting myself as a person with AS, I felt less bad about finding social interaction hard work. And that led to it actually becoming easier, at least some of the time.  I've even become surprisingly proficient at meaningless banter! I'm still acting and I know I'm acting, but I no longer give myself a hard time for acting - which I used to do. I used to feel bad for being insincere or false. Now, I see that kind of acting as simply something I've learned as a way of coping.

    This is just an example - best not to get mired in it, but I hope it helps explain why a diagnosis was important to me, and how it has helped me so far.

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  • I suppose it is almost a matter of logic that unless a person has a problem, they can't be helped - if they have no problem, they don;t need help!  I suppose this applies to 'impairment' too. I'm not personally looking for help in the form of active intervention - to me, knowing the reason why I have struggled in life from an early age, and still continue to find many things difficult (I'm talking about social things more than anything else - I have plenty of other traits but they are assets more than problems, to me) is help in itself.

    I have actually found that I've learned a lot in just the oast couple of years. Once I started accepting myself as a person with AS, I felt less bad about finding social interaction hard work. And that led to it actually becoming easier, at least some of the time.  I've even become surprisingly proficient at meaningless banter! I'm still acting and I know I'm acting, but I no longer give myself a hard time for acting - which I used to do. I used to feel bad for being insincere or false. Now, I see that kind of acting as simply something I've learned as a way of coping.

    This is just an example - best not to get mired in it, but I hope it helps explain why a diagnosis was important to me, and how it has helped me so far.

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