Were you offended when you were diagnosed with Asperger?

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Not offended. I felt abnormal and that I wasn't normal and I will always fail. But it made me try harder because I wanted to show that I didn't have it but failed.

I finally accepted it in my teens. Then I felt normal and I didn't have it anymore. Then I came to a point I thought the label was BS. It was a bumpy road for me.

I was shocked, but I did some research and felt that it made sense after taking a long trip down memory lane. I don't even think I had a denial period, though I do remember saying to my mother, "I'm tired of my classmates treating me like I'm autistic.", because at the time I thought autism=ret*d even though now I know that's not true.

Since I first looked into it myself, I was first offended that my past doctor said I didn't seem to have it. All my "quirks" fit into bipolar, which... doesn't make any sense. Lack of eye contact has nothing to do with bipolar. One could see why I'm a bit ticked/confused...

And yet I took the Aspie quiz that some people have on their signatures, today, and I'm "very likely" to have it.

The only thing I hate about it is "Asperger's" just isn't fun to say. :/ I kind of like it otherwise, as it makes me feel like less of an idiot for why I couldn't fit in or get along with anyone. NOW there's the reason why. I'm not just a ret*d that doesn't belong in the human race. I barely thought I was human for the longest time.

I was and still am in disbelief and hoping to find proof that im not really AS. I dont find the word aspie cute i find it degrading. I talked to my psych today and he ofered for me to go to a speech he will give on AS which leads me to believe that he might diagnose it as a fad. Ive always felt not normal and had trouble with people but never enough to impede my daily living as i would expect having AS really does.

What really messed me up is at one point he was showing me a slide show about manuel casanovas research about mini-columns in the brain and the short connections and in one of the slides it had the word autism in big bold letters as the title and he told me in a comfterble voice "dont worry, you are not autistic". That is what has set me over the edge since i never knew about AS. My parents fail to believe it too adn so does everyone else in my familly but some friends have said that i did seem kinda on the spectrum.

I learned about it on my own then went for an evaluation - so not offended - mostly relieved that there was a name for what I had and that I wasn't defective and lazy and stupid like I had grown to believe. It was rather shocking at first and I'm still coming to terms with living with a disability and realising how much it affects me.

My social worker first told me about it.I did not know what it was, and did not research it until a few months later. I was not offended at all. I just felt embarrassed that someone with as much knowledge as I have could be so completely clueless about something that has impacted my life more than anything else. Imagine what it is like to find out at 40+ years old that you have a developmental disorder.

I felt relieved to have answer to questions like 'why am I different?' or 'why do I enjoy rocking my head back and forth to go to sleep?' I am now able to understand why I am so different from the people at my college

When I was diagnosed in America is was very frustrated because all of a sudden I was told I had a disability and I needed help. Before that I was in my little world but at least I was happy with who I was. Diagnosis can be a pain on self esteem. I felt some how not as good as everyone else and that was hard. My parents got all emotional about it and I exploded. I didn't understand why all of a sudden I was treated differently. I was teased even more and bullied. But, later on I went back to Taiwan and for some reason people didn't really care as much as in America. I didn't have to deal with all these nagging idiot quackacologists and counselors. My peers were much more friendly as well due to the fact that you have to test into school and you get put in with peers with similar abilities as you. I was offended that I was told that I had a "deficit." But, I have gotten over it as now I understand that being AS has advantages as well as disadvantages and my brain is unique. I have a disability but my abilities more than make up for being this way.

I was not offended by the Aspergers diagnosis. But I was angered by the fact the doctor told me he does not know why they put me special education classes. They said I had ADHD but he said there was no sign of it from what he could diagnose. I spent 1st - 10th grade being beaten, spit on, and given a not so great education. I was not so much angered at the doctor but at the school psychologists. Someone who really needed to be in special education did not recieve it because I took their place. They were cheated out of the benifits from special education due to a sloppy diagnosis. Everytime I complained I wanted out of the classes the teachers would tell me for every student that got into special education three did not.

Kind of stupid being offended over a diagnosis, if you don't like it get another opinion, what diagnosis did you want?

No. I was diagnosed too young to feel offended (about age 6 or 7). I grew up knowing I had Asperger's syndrome and I thought nothing of it.

No. I knew about it much before I was actually formally diagnosed.

I was relieved that it was not something worst like some form of insanity. I finally knew why I was weird and felt very grateful for now knowing.

I was too young to understand the signifiance of it.

Iam pushing fifty now, at this time of life it is good to know that I am on
the spectrum. ( it's been only about a year being official)
I have not done that bad in life. But I have never been really
happy. Things like being rejected by girls I knew in high school, to find them
hook up with other gies that had/have few respectable qualities.
(I liked how somebody put it about being out of step, people pick up on this and
so did the girls I knew )
But the biggest benifet to be diagnosed is knowing that a person
can have a spikey IQ. I do not know if this is because of the dyslexia or the ASd.
I should not say this but starting to think dyslexia could be just a common
possible syptom of Asd
It helps explain why I fit in with brainyacs but of have a sh*t of a time
with the lanuage.

I wonder what I would have thought if I found out in my teens tho?

there was a thread about if you like being an aspie or something close to this
Well I have no choice in the matter.
so it is good to think it comes with positives.
Please don't burst my bubble.

no. i was more relieved, because finally i had a answer