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I am a nineteen-year-old, community college student. I have an unofficial diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome that I recieved a little less than a year ago. I recieved the unofficial diagnosis after withdrawing from my classes following a social anxiety triggered bout of agoraphobia. I decided I needed therapy before my whole life fell apart.

Autism is a bit of a scary word when you went your whole life thinking you were equipped with what everyone else was equipped with and just thought you were using it wrong. But, it comes as a relief, too. So much of my life makes sense.

I am hoping that being a member of wrongplanet will help me find sources of wisdom to help answer questions relating to Asperger's syndrome.

Welcome to WP ShadowFawkingPlay. Autism is just a word. You give it meaning on your own. As long as you can learn to accept and build on your differences in a healthy way, you'll do just fine.

So, this seams to have happened to a lot of us,
anyone know who we contact, or the best books/web sites for withdrawn/deferred/ just out of high school aspie's?

Besides the literal steps needed to get back into school, what do most aspie's end up doing after leaving an undergraduate?


A therapist, certain jobs?, .... there are a lot of resources, but there aren't many particularly for mild aspie's who got officially diagnosed after high school,

Before rambling without proper questions I'll number them,

1) Out of high school, Diagnosed, a lone, on the wrong planet, now what?
2)What are the best websites/forums, and best books for late diagnosed aspie's.
3)Why are so many of us dropping out of university due more to not coping well, rather than the actual course work.
4)Does anyone know a detailed, historic version of the story of aspergers? - how old it is, popularized mostly in what countries, what the projected future existence and scientific inquiry will be in the coming years, etc?
5) Is the answer to all of these questions; Learn how to cope, and learn what I need to do to turn my diagnosis/disorder into a gift and a strength, while working on and bettering my weaknesses? ...Is the answer making AS my own problem, and not needing resources anymore... such as complete special diets, emergency ear plugs, etc?

Is the goal of the late diagnosis ... essentially, to mask our disorder ourselves as quickly as possible? - if you know what I mean?

mask as is... because of bad timing it's our responsibility to search what diet/pharma's would reduce all our problems, and what environments and daily activities lessen our diagnoses. ??

6) In what ways is aspergers awesome, in what ways does aspergers cause problems?
7)How big of a % does aspergers affect us individually, mild would be less % i assume? (DNA and thinking wise, %, how different are we than NT's..... )
My whole point to this, is based on my curiosity in differences between aspies and nt's.... Life goals, likes, dislikes, problems, worries, preferences, mind set, personality, thinking process, language usage, ETC!

Who's the head scientists working on ASD right now???????????????????

9) I understand that we are a minority, in a sense, but what is our projected place in the world?



10) is aspergers just a fad, in the sense that psychology is steering towards focusing more on diversity of mind, rather than categorizing and labelling each mind?

Welkome to WP

Mick

Hello. I really like your avatar.