Recent Diagnosis

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Hello all,
I've been following Wrong Planet for some years but have only just made an account as I've just had a diagnosis of Asperger. I'm still not sure how to feel about it, finally getting the confirmation of something I had sort of known for many years. But at least I can now relax a little and think "oh that's why..."

"oh that's why..."

Yep. I was diagnosed at age 64. It was not a warning of problems in my future but rather an explanation of problems in my past. It was wonderful to finally understand.

I did get champagne on the way home from the Psychologist's office when I got the diagnosis.

P.S. Welcome to the active community on WP! I hope you like it here.

Many thanks for the welcome.
A bottle of Champagne sounds like a very nice thing to have done.

It was incredibly nice to finally know what was going on...all those decades.

In fact, there was a second bottle of Champagne when the written evaluation showed up in the mail.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welcome! Diagnosis at age 68 was a huge relief. Almost every "why" question of the past was answered when seen from the perspective of how autism had its works in my life without anybody knowing.

Not only did I learn everything in my sordid and painful past was not "all my fault" as I had been repeatedly told, but that I had different neurology, and that I was not alone.

One of the best things about learning about my autism was finding that there were others who understood.

Glad you are with us.

Welcome friend: Another of us from the "Lost generation". Growing up I always knew I was different, but we didn't have a name for it back then, ya know? I always got beaten up by my dad for "being bad in school and not learning". Even though I could A's in Science and art if I wanted, I just didn't want to. I knew MY dad was different and even though he was a doctor, he had all the same classic symptoms. (But obviously he learned to hide it well, to make a living). My son (now 34) has it, and I am a female. They don't study the Aspergers-Autism as much in women as they do men. In women they chalk it up to "hormones" but because I had ovarian cancer at age 22 it wasn't that! I'm "neutered" with no hormones and just as "autistic" now at 58 than I was at age 2 or age 10.

Now there are so many books out there...I read a few and I tell ya, I went through about a good 6 month depression of "grief" and feeling a bit sorry for myself because I was thinking> Well s**t, none of these schools or help existed when I was a kid. I just had teachers and parents who beat the tar outta me! I learned to wear a mask in public and now, I am pretty comfortable saying...Yeah, I was one of those "lost kids".