kazanscube wrote:
Are you the only autistic person in your family diagnosed at this time?
No, my uncle found out after I was diagnosed, because of me. Was quite sad, as his whole life, he felt different, lost job after job because he just never fit in and got fired because of it. Always had quirks, like counting how many pages he could read of a book an hour on average, making schedules, needing to find all secrets in Tomb Raider and other games like Spyro the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot and so on in an insanely compulsive way. Next to the communication problems of course.
He was always sick, had severe diabetes type 1, which caused his death just 2 years after he found out he had Asperger's. He turned blind, lost his kidney, his foot and so on. The man had a horrible life and was in an abusive relationship with a manipulative person. Nobody took his diagnosis seriously, except me and my mother and his wife did not want us around him, so we were not welcome. I chatted with him online thankfully, so that was at least something. In the end, when he turned blind, they put him in a care home, where they put him in a diaper all day, a 50 year old man. Horrible! 2 sons, a wife, and they just left him to rot. He stopped his medication and eventually died (suicide). So sad...
My mother has Asperger's and my grandfather had it as well, I think.
In the rest of my family, there are a few more with the diagnosis.
kazanscube wrote:
Do you like to learn things even if they seem irrelevant to others?
I don't really care what others think, so yes.
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