New here... Am I in the right place?

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My 3 yr old daughter was diagnosed with aspergers last month. since then i have been doing alot of research and the more i read the more Asperger's seems to make sense, not only for my daughter but for me as well. I have a gazzillion questions and really want to find other people dealing with the same things. On the one hand i know something appears to be different for us but on the other I have a hard time labeling his as a "syndrome". To me it just seems like a different way of being. kwim? i really like the name of this site because it describes so well how i feel... like we've been dropped off on the wrong planet and have to learn "earthling" ways, sort of.
So is this the right place for me?

Lydia

Did you take the aspie quiz?


http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

yeah your oin the right place, you will find a lot of parents in here like me, and a lot of annoying pricks too and a lot of kids lookign for validation, it is an aspie world in here ask and you will geta lot of answers , not alwyas right but you will get them.

Welcome to the planet.

I just did. thanks for the link. This was my score:

Thank you for filling out this questionnaire.

Your Aspie score: 150 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 42 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie


There is so much that I just take for granted that seems to be an Asperger thing. I am just amazed. How could I have missed this all these years? (I'm 38 btw) And how do I help my daughter? guess i'll be posting some more stuff/questions soon......

Welcome to the Community.

Hi!

Welcome to Wrongplanet!

I apologize for the late welcome. I've been busy.

I think you are in the right place, and I hope you enjoy posting here.

Your Welcome.

These were helpful to me:


http://www.visualed.com/video/asperger.wmv


http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/785000/vi ... ill_vi.ram

The book, "Pretending to be Normal" by Lianne Willey.

I also went to one support group to meet other aspies sponsored by GRASP.

You can email me if you want to talk. I am a 30 y/o F who got diagnosed maybe 3 months ago.

Hi Lydia and welcome.

I take it from your postings that you are also most likely Aspie as well as your daughter.

My 4 year old son was diagnosed ASD about a year ago and in learning about that, I discovered the root cause of my own lifelong issues is AD.

I guess a lot of adults discover their ASD/AD this way, as diagnosis just wasn't around much before the 1990's.

The best book I have found so far about AD is by Tony Attwood.

Bore dda!