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Hello Laura, welcome to the forum. Its a big step getting the diagnosis. I had done so much research beforehand, I thought I had covered most bases. Shocked to discover after the diagnosis, how widespread it had been on my life. There are many similar traits, as I understand, everyones experience of it is different.

A work colleague of mine has aspergers, and to be quite honest, I don't get on with him very well. I can see similarities, but our personalities, and approach to things are very different. What are you studying at Uni ?

I hope your diagnosis will help you put some bits of the puzzle together and help you with your difficulties at uni.

I remember I was deperate to leave education, I struggled with english, but found I just was not challenged enough with science, computing, and maths and just found it boring. So much so, I regularly fell asleep at my desk with one lecturer. One day he pointed me out mid discussion on a complex subject as I had just woke up. He raised his tone and setting me up for a grilling in front of my classmates. I can remember the shock on his face, when I gave him the perfect answer and just went back to sleep. 

I had to drop out of college, because I  couldn't cope with the artificial pressure on everything. I did manage to pick the pieces up, and returned a year later while I was doing part time job at same time because my grant had been pulled.

If It turns you do have it well like you said you're not new to Aspergers which gives you an advantage to live with it and I don't have aspergers myself I have a mild form of autism but I can definetely relate to the special interests and Once I'm into something I do get obsessive which I used to think was totally strange and I was worried about myself but I was told it's just a part of me if not a characteristic that makes me uniqueand I also start things then get bored and start something new as soon as it goes 'out of fashion' in my mind