Do you hide your disorders?

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Yes I hide mine. I don't want trouble from anyone about it so I don't tell people, outside of family.

I used to tell my employers I have ADHD and got horrible reactions, so I learned to just keep it to myself.

I can't fake it. I'm a loner. Don't know if i have AS. But people see i'm different, even when im trying to be social.

I've lost the will to keep my AS hidden. To some extent this year I've lost the ability to hide it.

Hiding it this year has been very hard as stress/depression has made things a lot harder than before. Diagnosed 8 months ago, I wanted to hide it then: I tried so hard to both deal with the diagnosis, kept realising that my AS was causing more problems than I realised and desperately wanted noone to see how much I was struggling. I think if I had told people in April, then I wouldn't be in the awful state I am now. If I had been open, then maybe I would have found it easier to cope and not needed to hide my AS so much.

There's only 8 people who even know about my AS- 2 people at work know, but even my parents don't know yet...I'm telling them tomorrow.

I've decided- I don't care any longer if people know. I don't want to hide it any more. It has caused me more problems trying to hide it this year than it would cause if everyone knew. So, from now, people will know...(if ever a sensible opportunity comes up).

Why should I have to hide it any more?

I don't have it tattooed on my forehead, but I don't even try to hide it. It's part of who I am. It doesn't define me by itself, but it is there, and I'm not ashamed of it.

If somebody tells me they have Autism, ADD or anything else, or that their kid has it, I tell them what I have. I've never thought of it as a big deal as far as people knowing. To me it's no different than telling people I'm mostly Irish.

I don't hide it.

Nope I tell no one. Only some of my family know, and the doctor.

I don't want to a) have to explain myself to anyone
b) have anyone feel sorry for me (! !!)
C) treat me differently
D) A lot of NT women/ friends don't seem to be able to keep secrets very well, so if one person knows then you can be bloomin sure they will tell at least one other person. Bloody gossip mongers. So I keep my business to myself. Including aspergers!

I just surround myself with unusual, arty, musical, quirky interesting people so my eccentricities are pretty much accepted.

i didn't tell my parents because it's so important to them that I'll be "normal" and like everyone else. it's an obsession with them. i have no intention of telling them.
i told my brother, sister in law and three nieces.
i try to hide my syndrome. i don't flap my fingers when there are people around. i try not to pace too much, but then NTs pace sometimes, too. i know people think i'm strange, but they don't know i'm autistic.
it's easy to hide it, because i don't have friends anyway and don't socialize. it's co workers that realized something is slightly off with me, and managers, and other people i've come in contact with, but then i hardly talk to anyone.
i don't think I could hide it if i was in a relationship. it would be very difficult. i hid it from my parents becasue they don't see what they don't want to see.

One of my biggest issues is that I hide too much. If I were a bit more open, I probably would be more sociable, even while being more asipe-ish.

If someone asks, I'm honest about it. But I don't go rambling about it, either.

I only tell the people that I trust.

Interesting.



TheSunAlsoRises

I basically just learned to accept the fact that I am aspy today and only because my wife can't deal with me being aspy anymore. aspy with real bad psyriosis + psyreatic arthritis = makes a person hate living. I just want to be normal but no matter how hard I try i just can't do it, so no I don't tell people but all I do is bring pain and misery to others so you can be sure people know that there is something wrong with me. I just thought every one else was just as messed up in the head as i am and that they were better at faking it than me. guess not, but if you can fake being normal then I saulute you and wish I could at least seem normal

Sometimes, but everday it becomes harder to hide things and every day I lose even more motivation to try. Sometimes I wish I could just be open.......then at least I could know for sure what my family members think of me wether good or bad. I mean why should I care if they wanna call me a loser, maybe by their standards I am but I don't see why I should care anymore.

I couldn't even hide my disorders even if I wanted to.

The only one I can remotely control is to not stare at people.