Hi. I am new to this site, currently in the middle of final exams (yes, I should be studying right now). One multiple choice question asked to identify the trait NOT associated with Asperger's. All of the options besides the correct one described me as I was in childhood, with some traits persisting to this day. It made me cry. It was the strangest thing. Perhaps finals are just taking their toll on me and I'm reading too much into this. However, it is difficult to ignore the evidence (school reports and repeated testimonies of several family members and acquaintances describing symptoms that I had heretofore disregarded).
Anyhow, while I couldn't attribute a reason to my oddities, I recently made a realisation that a lot of the characteristics that make/made people think of me as 'strange' are things I can educate myself on and subsequently adapt to, rather than just accepting that they are things I will never 'get' like others do. I'm fairly proud of the bit of progress I've made, and it has not gone unnoticed by the aforementioned family members. However, I am still struggling with such aspects of social intelligence, and hope to gain some insight and possibly some advice on how to improve my interactions with others. If I can achieve this here (at least somewhat), without having to resort to counselling, well, yippee!
09 Nov 2009, 9:31 pm
