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How can I help my adult son be happier?

NAS74662

Hello, this is my first post.

My adult son has (undiagnosed) aspergers.  He started the route towards diagnosis a few years ago but wouldn't take it past the first session.  Since then he has refused to entertain the idea of any help but he finds it so hard being him and very much does need help.  How on earth can I even brouch the subject with him without him getting upset, never mind getting him to the point where he would go back to the GP.  He trusts me and I need that to continue.  

Am sure this must be a problem for other people whose loved ones have aspergers, so any thoughts would be appreciated.

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  • I think that he has a lot of negative feelings about being labelled. I am exactly the opposite I found being a bag of weird reactions and strange difficulties and limitations really unpleasant to live with, when I found that I was autistic I was overjoyed to discover an underlying reason for how I am. Being diagnosed opens up to you the experiences of other autistic people and also their often ingenious ways of coping with the condition.

    There is an autistic community out there and it contains many remarkable and creative human beings, Greta Thunberg and Anthony Hopkins, being just two. 

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  • I think that he has a lot of negative feelings about being labelled. I am exactly the opposite I found being a bag of weird reactions and strange difficulties and limitations really unpleasant to live with, when I found that I was autistic I was overjoyed to discover an underlying reason for how I am. Being diagnosed opens up to you the experiences of other autistic people and also their often ingenious ways of coping with the condition.

    There is an autistic community out there and it contains many remarkable and creative human beings, Greta Thunberg and Anthony Hopkins, being just two. 

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