Hi! I'm 30 years old and have recently been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. I've always felt that I operated on a different wavelength than everyone else and struggled socially but since I did well in school, nobody paid much attention. Since then, I've developed some very strong defense mechanisms like creative fantasies that pull me out of the real world. I can spend endless hours reading, writing, developing games, playing games, etc.
I am also married and much to my shock/horror, my wife cites the autistic tendencies as driving us towards divorce. She wants me to "fix it" but I don't know where to start and a lot of the online resources about NT relationships are super depressing. I hope that having Asperger's is a death sentence for our relationship.
Any thoughts/resources/advice would be super helpful!
09 Jan 2018, 1:03 am
