The Journey of I, Dream, the man...

When you had your diagnosis (which sounds recent) did they not give you some sort of pamphlet of support groups or anything?

If you search on this website, there are a variety of local NAS groups and there might be social groups where you can talk at (as opposed to 'to'  as we are oft wont to do) like-minded people on the spectrum.  Might be something there that would be of help.

I hope the psychologist helps.  Sometimes they can be useful to give you a different perspective on things as we tend to focus on one way of looking at a problem or ourselves.

I think not being what we seem to be should be a slogan for us at the higher functioning end.  We are struggling to mask what's going on inside (I even mentally rock back and forth when I'm stressed as unless I was in a complete meltdown I wouldn't do it publicly).  We are trying to fulfil everyone else's expectations of us, it's not what or who we truly are though.

Stay strong.

When you had your diagnosis (which sounds recent) did they not give you some sort of pamphlet of support groups or anything?

If you search on this website, there are a variety of local NAS groups and there might be social groups where you can talk at (as opposed to 'to'  as we are oft wont to do) like-minded people on the spectrum.  Might be something there that would be of help.

I hope the psychologist helps.  Sometimes they can be useful to give you a different perspective on things as we tend to focus on one way of looking at a problem or ourselves.

I think not being what we seem to be should be a slogan for us at the higher functioning end.  We are struggling to mask what's going on inside (I even mentally rock back and forth when I'm stressed as unless I was in a complete meltdown I wouldn't do it publicly).  We are trying to fulfil everyone else's expectations of us, it's not what or who we truly are though.

Stay strong.