HalibutSandwich wrote:
I haven't been diagnosed yet either but am working towards it. And I'm also having some weird confidence issues about getting diagnosed. The reason is I've been told for 15 years my troubles are caused by chronic depression and anxiety. Relatively speaking, those conditions respond reasonably well to medication and therapy. Even though medication hasn't helped me, it could just be I haven't found the right antidepressant to work with my condition yet. So there's still hope. However, there is no real cure for Asperger's. No magic pill. The only treatment will be to learn to lie about who I really am. So the NT's feel more at ease with me. I'm not comfortable with that. I am who I am. And that's where the confidence issue comes in.
It probably depends a lot on one's age. I'm 57 so I know that I function up to a point and that having Asperger's isn't in practical terms going to prevent me from doing things except what it has already prevented me from doing. If one is 14 years old, for example, it must be a bit more demanding to be told. I have already lived most of my life without knowing I had it. So it should really just be a relief to know why things happened thus and so. But it brings a real shift in one's self-image and that takes some getting used to.
03 Oct 2011, 9:42 pm
