02 Jan 2012, 9:42 pm
cinbad wrote:
NaomiDB wrote:
how has is affected your life?
has it limited you in any way?
describe aspergers and what it means to you
has it limited you in any way?
describe aspergers and what it means to you
These are some BIG questions. But in a nutshell (and please tell me if I have a misconception).
AS has explained to me what I have been going through my whole life. Why I have always felt "different". Why I was ostracized for so long in my life by people. Why I felt so numb as a kid and still do occasionally. It has enlightened my children to why we have had a different (not dysfunctional) life than the "normal" family. It has helped me feel like I belong to a community here at WP for the first time in my life. Finding out I have AS has finally helped me to accept who I am and enjoy who I am because I don't find it a handicap but different in some really awesome ways.
Limited? It has actually freed me. To be the person I really am. To understand why I am. To understand why I do things the way I do and to be able to explain it to those who want to understand me.
To describe aspergers should be left up to the physicians as it is such a complicated issue. But my aspergers, in my short time after finding it, means that there is a reason for my self-perceived inadequacies. It is the reason I am drawn to people who are "different". Why I seek out others like myself. It explains my social failings, my relationship insecurities, my failings while I tried my best to bring up my children. It explains why other women find me "odd". It explains why I can think the way I do and have so many brilliant ideas, yet verbalize it horribly. It also explains why I find so many NT's so boring and ignorant.
Naomi....what does it mean to you?
Yeah, what she said pretty much sums it up. It doesn't really change anything, it just gives me a reason why things are the way they are.
