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I have just had a diagnosis and feel quite confused

Sam B

Hello

I feel guilty writing this as the posts I have seen relate to parents very concerned about children and by comparison my worries are very small.  I feel a bit lost though with a recent diagnosis.  I have seen a psychiatrist for some time and have a diagnosis of a psychiatirc disorder.  The time before last I saw my psychiatrist he said I am also on the autistic spectrum.  I saw him again last week and argued with him about it but he pointed out my difficuties with relationships, black/white thinking, dislike of change, poor eye contact etc.  I am now thinking maybe he is right. Outwardly my life is successful - I have a good job etc - but it is a huge struggle.  I am finding it very hard to  get my head round this though and feel like I have become a lesser person or inferior.  It seems to be a label which is all negative and which you can't recover from.  Like I say, I appreciate my problems are very mild but I would love to hear from someone in a similar position.  Now he has said it about me I can see it in one of my children and my grandfather.  Thank you

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  • Thank you Kalojaro!

    Now I know why you seem so level headed - your a girl! (for some reason, I assumed you were a boy - sorry!) Smile

    My son is ok with his reading to be fair, its just his writing/spelling that is the problem. He is in the lowest spelling group, but always knows his spellings by the second day of learning them, ready for a test the week later.  It just seems to be his inability to concentrate enough to remember them when actually writing a sentence. 

    As for drawing.......well, bless his wonderful heart, your cat could probably draw better! Smile  They are really basic with no thought.  Again, almost as though he can't wait to finish it.  He draw a house the other day.   It had a sort of rounded, retangular base, with a rounded, triangular roof.....thats it.....no windows, and no door....so I don't think drawings for him....

    His teachers always say if he could write down his ideas, he'd be a genious!  If he tells a story that he has made up, with such descriptive words, they are brilliant.....just a shame he then can't write it down.  The teacher says he could do with a dictaphone to capture his fantastic ideas.  Its almost as though is brain goes to fast for his pen!

    He's never expressed any interest in music, but I am going to mention it to the school head, to see if she could give him a piano lesson.  If he doesn't like it, no problem, if he does, we save like mad for a piano!

    I like your keyring idea.  I will give that one some thought.

    Did you find that "twiddled" in your head in school lessons.  We wonder if thats why he can't concentate because his head is fully of pokemon or what ever it is he is into at that time.

    Thanks again, and good luck at Uni! xxLaughing

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  • Thank you Kalojaro!

    Now I know why you seem so level headed - your a girl! (for some reason, I assumed you were a boy - sorry!) Smile

    My son is ok with his reading to be fair, its just his writing/spelling that is the problem. He is in the lowest spelling group, but always knows his spellings by the second day of learning them, ready for a test the week later.  It just seems to be his inability to concentrate enough to remember them when actually writing a sentence. 

    As for drawing.......well, bless his wonderful heart, your cat could probably draw better! Smile  They are really basic with no thought.  Again, almost as though he can't wait to finish it.  He draw a house the other day.   It had a sort of rounded, retangular base, with a rounded, triangular roof.....thats it.....no windows, and no door....so I don't think drawings for him....

    His teachers always say if he could write down his ideas, he'd be a genious!  If he tells a story that he has made up, with such descriptive words, they are brilliant.....just a shame he then can't write it down.  The teacher says he could do with a dictaphone to capture his fantastic ideas.  Its almost as though is brain goes to fast for his pen!

    He's never expressed any interest in music, but I am going to mention it to the school head, to see if she could give him a piano lesson.  If he doesn't like it, no problem, if he does, we save like mad for a piano!

    I like your keyring idea.  I will give that one some thought.

    Did you find that "twiddled" in your head in school lessons.  We wonder if thats why he can't concentate because his head is fully of pokemon or what ever it is he is into at that time.

    Thanks again, and good luck at Uni! xxLaughing

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