Where's the Confetti?

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Hi,

I'm a human who is neither male or female (would be nice to have gender options not soley based on worldly cisgendered norms, as I am not what society would deem "cisgendered"; and online forums are societal structures that mimic those of the physical world, so if there aren't options aside from "Male" or "Female", it'd be neat to just opt out from being required to identity and leave it blank, when signing up for a WP account); I'm simply my mind, soul and thoughts floating around within a fragile insignificant vessel of bones, muscles, fat, organs and blood, living out the world-as-we-know-it experience, during this time in space..

Back to my introduction:
This year has f****d me up, royally.. but the cause and effect from chaos resulted in a collective narrative projection from my peers and multiple psychiatrists to pressure me in inquiring about the potential of me being on "the spectrum"..

After an extensive and drawn out (damn you, covid) analysis from the Dr. performing my medical assesment, I was diagnosed as having:

"Autism Spectrum Disorder, without intellectual impairment or accompanying language impairment; Level 1 for Restricted, Repetitive Behaviors";

Alongside nuerodivergent commorbidities that I don't find relevant to speak of now..

My Social Responsive Scale averaged an "89".. (concerning to me.. it being of the "severe range", but I perhaps am conflating medical speech with the normal everyday use of such alarmist language)

I haven't slept, since my last appointment with the Dr. yesterday; giving me my "legal" documentation and discussing extensively my resulting diagnosis, additionally; what it means and how she came to that conclusion. It's alot of information and realization for me to take in all at once...

She'd even (which I found to be a very sweet gesture) included in my final report; a long list of book recommendations to help me navigate my "high functioning autism", "Mild Autism", or what it really is (despite the red tape of the medical systems condensing multiple conditions into the same catagories to ease access to proper resources and "treatment" options, where I live - *which I have no personal opinion on, in regards to that being "good" or "bad"*, I honestly just find it very interesting; the evolution of ASD criterias for diagnosis): "Aspergers".

My Dr. told me that she would had diagnosed me as having Aspergers (because she slipped and said "Aspergers", and it confused me, more than I already was after the "type 1" stuff..), if it wasn't for those changes to the criteria for diagnosis being condensed, but that "it was what it was" basically..

I look foreward to accessing ethically-complaint resources, to help me on my journey to getting myself on my two feet, for the first time in my life..

(Just read some s**t on Autism Speaks .. Glad I dodged that bullet.. sheeesh.. talk about wolves in sheeps clothing.. abhorrant criminals, they are)

I've long had my potential, now I will have access to the correct tools and hopefully support and kinship from new peers that I cross paths with along the way.

Anyhow, I gave a very busy Thurday ahead of myself, and I just wanted to introduce myself, before I black out from exhaustion.

Hope you all a beautiful and safe and sane rest of your 1st day of October 2020.

Welcome to the clan...we have missed you.

Welcome to the clubs (Level 1 & WP)!

I tend to refer to myself informally as an "Aspie". It is shorter than the official nomenclature and I suspect more widely recognized, as well.

I didn't get confetti when I got my diagnosis; my signature block says what I did get--on the way home from the psychologist! The written report showed up sometime later and that called for another bottle!

Well, you certainly "sound" like an aspie.

Welcome.
I'm the website's joker, btw.
You have been warned.

Worthwhile reading: viewtopic.php?t=191597#p8581100

Welcome

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Mental or physical? How do we have to imagine you?
Welcome here on WP! Where is the champagne?

Sorry. There is no champagne left to pour into my computer. Rather, my bride and I disposed of the champagne properly, I poured some into my smile and she poured some into hers. Fortunately, AuroraBorealisGazer was kind enough to bring confetti.

I will concede my bride was less ecstatic about my diagnosis than I was, but we both understand the diagnosis did not change my quirks, it just gave some of them pedigrees and gave me a new interest. There is good news and bad news, of course. Some good news, from my standpoint, is that I enjoy exclaiming "I have a doctor's note for that!" Some bad news, from her standpoint, is the exact same thing!

P.S. Getting back to part of the original post by rigidwaters...in casual conversation I do tend to refer to myself using the colloquial term "Aspie" but I was diagnosed in the U.S. in 2019 so my official diagnosis is:

     Autism Spectrum Disorder, Level 1 (Mild)

As near as I can make out from what I've read, in 2013 they rolled a whole bunch of possibly related stuff together and plopped it under the umbrella term "Autism Spectrum Disorder". I think this was a tacit acknowledgement that they don't really know what is going on! ! There is a medley of seemingly related "symptoms" but they are still confused about the cause(s). SPARK has "identified over 150 genes and segments of chromosomes, known as copy number variants (CNVs), that are related to autism." You don't need all of 'em, any one of them may cause autism. But some people with them don't have autism. And some people with none of 'em have autism. They don't really know what is going on.