So.....received my Aspergers diagnosis today

Hi Felix

Apologies for not responding sooner, work called. And it's been really good to talk to you as not only do we share the same diagnosis, but we also have similar roles in the professional sector. You understand/experience similar issues to myself in the office environment and that only is reassuring so thank you for chatting with me!

I must check each email I send no less than 10 times before I work up the courage to actually hit the send button. I usually rewrite what I have written to as rarely am I happy with my emails. I'm scrutinising every thing I've written trying to see whether the recipient will understand what I mean, think I'm stupid, agree with me etc etc. This alone is extremely destructive and time consuming, and I don't know about you but I will often save old emails and re-read them in order to analyse what has been said, is there an underlying meaning, what is the sender really trying to say. Similar to you also my natural writing style is very 'flowery' as you put it. What a regular person will say in 3 words I will say in 16, I just naturally have that long winded style of writing (evidenced by the epic posts on here!) 

I'm interested to know how you're feeling today outside of work? Now it's the Bank Holiday and you have a few days off do you feel a bit more positive or relaxed? Are you feeling in a better place outside of work? When I got my diagnosis the last place I wanted to be was work; I had just been given a life changing piece of information that I was yet to process and people just acted normally around me and had the same expectations of me. Of course at this point no one at work knew of my diagnosis so they're not to blame for the way they acted, however I just wanted to be at home on my 'safe space' to link my wounds, be around familiarity and try to understand what was going on in my head. I always looked forward to the weekend as it gave me valuable time to.process and to try adjust.

(Apologies for any spelling errors, I've had to send this from my phone and spell check usually throws up some interesting nuggets!)

Hi Felix

Apologies for not responding sooner, work called. And it's been really good to talk to you as not only do we share the same diagnosis, but we also have similar roles in the professional sector. You understand/experience similar issues to myself in the office environment and that only is reassuring so thank you for chatting with me!

I must check each email I send no less than 10 times before I work up the courage to actually hit the send button. I usually rewrite what I have written to as rarely am I happy with my emails. I'm scrutinising every thing I've written trying to see whether the recipient will understand what I mean, think I'm stupid, agree with me etc etc. This alone is extremely destructive and time consuming, and I don't know about you but I will often save old emails and re-read them in order to analyse what has been said, is there an underlying meaning, what is the sender really trying to say. Similar to you also my natural writing style is very 'flowery' as you put it. What a regular person will say in 3 words I will say in 16, I just naturally have that long winded style of writing (evidenced by the epic posts on here!) 

I'm interested to know how you're feeling today outside of work? Now it's the Bank Holiday and you have a few days off do you feel a bit more positive or relaxed? Are you feeling in a better place outside of work? When I got my diagnosis the last place I wanted to be was work; I had just been given a life changing piece of information that I was yet to process and people just acted normally around me and had the same expectations of me. Of course at this point no one at work knew of my diagnosis so they're not to blame for the way they acted, however I just wanted to be at home on my 'safe space' to link my wounds, be around familiarity and try to understand what was going on in my head. I always looked forward to the weekend as it gave me valuable time to.process and to try adjust.

(Apologies for any spelling errors, I've had to send this from my phone and spell check usually throws up some interesting nuggets!)