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High-Funct Aspie.

Louby

I'm 33 and despite always getting A* on any Aspie/Autism tests, the nature of my profession and it's pressure has taught me to manage my behaviour and quirks quite successfully. I'm grateful for my late diagnosis as I've adapted to fit in and lead a successful professional and personal life. The reason for my post is to see whether there are any others like me? I don't share my aspie status with friends/colleagues much as I feel they associate it with learning difficultys and disability due to the media representation. I'm keen to break the stereotype  so I hope I'm not  I my own. I'm keen to hear from others  like me.

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  • My Otherhalf is a HFA and has a very sucessful career and relationship and family. He doesnt hide his AS but dosent shout it from the roof tops either. He is good at his job and very clever, so the two, along with working on himself deliberatly to improve his skills and abililties in all areas of his life (luckily one of his passions, as he reads the book (in literally no time at all) or whatever and applies the rules and expects the results :-) The flip side, is that he does get very stressed and when he is floundering he tells me he feels like things are "spiralling out of control" or" I feel very pressured to deliver" and we talk, a lot. His stress levels are noticable to me and I know when i need to kick his butt or hug him - in the old days a hug would have been out of the question, but now he will seek one out :-) So we are a team. 

    At work, he rarely goes out with collegues, he invited 2 out for dinner as a xmas party as he wanted to spend time with them but not the rest but mainly as they want to get drunk and he doesnt and he will be going to a leaving party for the first time since i have known him on thursday! 

    I of course can not answer for him, but this is just my view as his partner. 

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  • My Otherhalf is a HFA and has a very sucessful career and relationship and family. He doesnt hide his AS but dosent shout it from the roof tops either. He is good at his job and very clever, so the two, along with working on himself deliberatly to improve his skills and abililties in all areas of his life (luckily one of his passions, as he reads the book (in literally no time at all) or whatever and applies the rules and expects the results :-) The flip side, is that he does get very stressed and when he is floundering he tells me he feels like things are "spiralling out of control" or" I feel very pressured to deliver" and we talk, a lot. His stress levels are noticable to me and I know when i need to kick his butt or hug him - in the old days a hug would have been out of the question, but now he will seek one out :-) So we are a team. 

    At work, he rarely goes out with collegues, he invited 2 out for dinner as a xmas party as he wanted to spend time with them but not the rest but mainly as they want to get drunk and he doesnt and he will be going to a leaving party for the first time since i have known him on thursday! 

    I of course can not answer for him, but this is just my view as his partner. 

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