Thanks for your posts, everyone
Wobbegong: That sounds interesting A "danish" (the pastry) is called a "berliner" or "wienerbread" here I guess we don't want to be classified as pastries "storebror" means "big brother" by the way- what a cute name! A shame they're not around anymore, I would've loved to talk to them... I was misdiagnosed at Naestved, but I've been told that most hospitals are like that, and unless you go to a specialized hospital, they only carry out 10% of the tests and examinations that you need to go through to be diagnosed... on these 10%, they think they can conclude whether you have aspergers or not - even though I fit the tests and exams down to a T, they still carried on with other tests and still didn't believe I had aspergers.
Raph522 wrote:
Hi The_Danish, i am a 19 year old AS girl too... strange.... what types of animals do you care for?
Hehe, lots of animals- currently, I have four chinchillas, two dogs, two cats (one of them is deaf), two cockatiels and three degus (gerbil/squirrel type of animals). The Danish RSPCA and various shelters and petshops call me if they run out of space and I often help them rehome animals (although I end up keeping a lot of them myself
). I've had everything from mice to giant iguanas running around the house
pineapple wrote:
Welcome, I'm a 21-year old girl-- we're around!
It seems like a lot of people our age had trouble getting a diagnosis in childhood...hopefully people are recognizing aspies better by now.
I think it's because we're girls
Asperger is most commonly found in boys, so when a girl shows symptoms, doctors would rather look for other possibilities than Asperger- my doctor was very poorly informed, and when I started mentioning aspergers first, his first reaction was "but girls can't have aspergers!"
Needless to say, he's better informed now.