Diagnosis - to tell or not?

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I'm nine years old and smelana is my mum. I reckon you should tell him because if he finds out about it the next step is that you can teach him more about it to help him with cetain stuff that he needs help with. Its better to tell him then keep making up excuses as I call them for why he can't do certain stuff. It helped me a lot when my mum told me I had asperges. Otherwise I would still be wondering why I have certain problems with things


Jimmy

If he's old enough to understand, he's old enough to know the truth.

Only the truth will set you free.

equinn

My views of myself and my world sort of turned upside down when I found out at age 16 that I was Aspergerian. But I could have ended up in a worse position than I am in now if I never knew. Because it is important to realise that the point at which I was starting to hate myself and really go downhill happened BEFORE diagnosis, which in turn LEAD to diagnosis.

well I didn´t read whole the thread but when it goes about the question of "telling the TRUTH" personally, I think this is a bit overrated,I mean a lot of people have AS and even don´t know about it, there is a lot of people who got the diagnosis in their thirties and although they dave never understood why what´s the difference between them and another people, they still had the chance to think that everyone differs in the same way and just not take it too seriously to let it harm their self-esteem. If I could step back in time and choose, I wouldn´t like to know I have AS. I haven´t been told by anybody and-except a few aspects, I am quite comfortable with what I have achieved in my life, though I had some mental troubles I just couldn´t solve.