I have just had a diagnosis and feel quite confused

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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  • I've tried the homeless, drug addled painful woe is me side of Aspergers and enjoyed it at the time.

    Then I met a girl, we had babies and i fashioned a succesful digital media career.

    Neither suited me really, the more I tried to normalise myself the more ill I became.

    So now work freelance and live as an open eccentric. I think I spotted the irony of caring what other people think when your condition should really exclude that.

    I put myself in uncomfortable situations, with the support of my Wife, regularly as part of being a Dad and Husband. Never gets any easier but thats the choice i made, to be in society.

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  • I've tried the homeless, drug addled painful woe is me side of Aspergers and enjoyed it at the time.

    Then I met a girl, we had babies and i fashioned a succesful digital media career.

    Neither suited me really, the more I tried to normalise myself the more ill I became.

    So now work freelance and live as an open eccentric. I think I spotted the irony of caring what other people think when your condition should really exclude that.

    I put myself in uncomfortable situations, with the support of my Wife, regularly as part of being a Dad and Husband. Never gets any easier but thats the choice i made, to be in society.

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