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Knowing how to help my Husband...

Morgie

My husband has not been diagnosed (and isn't sure yet if he wants to be), and I am struggling to understand what I can do to help him. He had never even considered that he could possibly have Aspergers until rescently. So it has been a big shock to him, I was not surprised when he told me the results he had got on an online ASD test though. I have talked to him about how he feels, and he has opened up to me lately, much more than he ever has done, but other than listening and trying to be supportive, I feel and (from our conversation last night) so does he, that I should be doing more to accomodate his behaviour. Previously I had put it down to being arrogant and at times uncaring. It is difficult to change the way I respond to him, even though I am now aware of what may be causing his behaviour. 

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  • One would like to think there was a small undemanding book you could recommend to a bloke, but all the ones I can think of, that ought to be just that, are absurdly unhelpful

    Loving Mr Spock is relatively easy to get hold of.

    You've no choice but for him to go through his GP to get a referral for a diagnosis, but most GPs seem pretty useless at this, coming out with various ill informed homilies like its something you grow out of, or you've got a job, it can't be, or you'd not be able to look directly at someone if you had. Far from being a means to diagnosis GPs are usually a barrier. 

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  • One would like to think there was a small undemanding book you could recommend to a bloke, but all the ones I can think of, that ought to be just that, are absurdly unhelpful

    Loving Mr Spock is relatively easy to get hold of.

    You've no choice but for him to go through his GP to get a referral for a diagnosis, but most GPs seem pretty useless at this, coming out with various ill informed homilies like its something you grow out of, or you've got a job, it can't be, or you'd not be able to look directly at someone if you had. Far from being a means to diagnosis GPs are usually a barrier. 

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