Getting well from Aspergers syndrome? therefore no services.

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If you want and need services, get a "level of functioning test" done. That can pinpoint in exactly what ways and areas your AS is affecting you and they can no longer say there are no deficits.. unless they find none.

I had this done.. deficits galore.. services coming soon!

There are no services available for autistic adults in my area. I want to lose the label so that I can get health insurance. People in my A.S. group classify me as a moderately high functioning autie.

Yup, there are a few of us here. I suspect that I became subclinical in high school.

I think one can develop better skills for handling "situations".

I find myself questioning my urge to clarify everything. The impulse is still there, but I can see it for what it is and blow it off.

I do well self checking my responses and reactions. Then, BOOM, something happens, I get confused and it all comes crashing down.

I'm not sarcastic.
I don't get the meaning of this post. What's the problem about being AS? If you feel good and can cope with everything (like me) then good for you. I don't know what it is where you live, but here in Italy. DX are strictly personal. You can apply for help in school or at work if you have a DX but you can do whatever you want, you don't need to put it on your curriculum or say it when you apply for a work. We have already stated with my wife that we will take our daughter DX for us. I something good to know for us and will be an help for her in the future to understand herself but it will not make her "handicapped" unless she will want.

Do your state obbly you to declare mental DX? In italy we need to declare only physical problem and only some (for istance AIDS shouldn't be decleared).

Both me and my wife grown up autism with minor problems, we don't have formal DX because they were impossible (Asperger first DX in Italy was in 1997 and we were born in early '80s), our child psycologist said to us that we have it too but it's useless to formalize a DX now for us. Nevertheless at least here an AS-DX is something you can use or not use, it's not a stigma put in your forehead.

If you're a moderate-high autistic as an adult, I'll give you 99% odds that it's impossible to lose the diagnosis without committing fraud. If you're going to lose the diagnosis, it usually happens when you're a child, and happens almost exclusively to people who were "mild" to begin with. Them's the facts.

The bad part about this is that I have been employed in several different fields. The system says that I have no disability while at the same time discriminates because of the "nonexistant disability."

I take the position with my doctor, my neuro (for TS) and my psychologist, "If it doesn't bother me, it shouldn't bother you."

Obviously, if I am ignoring something, or missing something, then I expect them to draw it to my attention. If my coping strategies are sufficient to the task of letting me function well in the world and in my family, then that's all to the good.

But that doesn't mean I have, "recovered," it just means that my current presentation doesn't require intervention.