How open are you about AS?

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Only my family, college tutors and people involved in my care know. I don't tell peers or strangers.

I usually let slip I might have some "thing" different with me, thus piequing interest.

Only close friends and family know about my diagnosis. When I was in elementary middle and high school, I was much much more open about it, but I really needed to be to explain certain behaviors, at least in elementary and middle school. In high school I began to not be so open about it, as I had stopped most of my tics and compulsive movements and stuff.

No because nobody cares about me which suits me just fine I feel the same way about them.

I told my birds

I think thats why they like me more than anybody else

No I've been lead to believe by Autism Tv that it's a superior college educated persons disorder , so I can't have it.

Since I don't have it why would I tell some one I have something that I don't have?

I chose the "very few" option because none of my friends know about my having AS (yet), and only my mom and twin brother know I have Asperger's specifically.

I came out on Facebook a year ago. So anyone who was paying attention that day knows.

I'll write about it, but I don't like to talk about it all that much. Just like most other things on my mind... writing about it is easier. But me and my wife and kids are pretty open about it.

I've only been able to tell a couple of my friends that I have AS, and I want to tell more of them about it. Right now I'm trying to give them the hint that I'm an aspie without mentioning it by telling them about my symptoms when I was little and all the treatment I got for it to make me act more like an NT. But I know they're never going to fully understand me so I WILL have to just openly admit that I have it and hope that they'll accept me for who I am. On top of that, I'm still very nervous about telling my aspie boyfriend about it, although that shouldn't be hard since we had the same issues and treatment growing up.

No one really. Too afraid they will treat me differently.

Only those who are required to know by law or medical reasons and anyone I trust or feel they should know.

I was never diagnosed so I can't tell anybody if I have it or not.

Looking back, knowing what I know now it would be 90% no and 10% yes

Quiet,

Please don't tell anyone. I am still new at this and trying to figure out what to do? I am successful, I am smart, I have six certificates on the wall. I am a CPA & CGMA. Now this.....OK, so I don't excel at social stuff?

B

My friends and the staff at the clubhouse that I go to know. The staff will know after today. I've done the Stepping Stones survey today and I've left a few choice comments on the back. Not in a nasty way, or with swear words.

I have no qualms about telling people or discussing it, but its not really something I open up with. Generally if I tell its after people get to know me. That way I don't have to do much explaining up front, as I haven't ever been able to come up with a decent "all-encompassing" explanation.

I often feel odd in terms of people on here with how open I about my AS.

I posted on google+ when I was diagnosed.
I write a blog that I link to people I know.
I at times where a necklace with a puzzle piece and turtle on it. (at times mostly being when I think of it)
I regularly talk about it, and usually comment on myself whenever autism as a topic of conversation comes up.
My family knows, the people I went to school with know, the people I go to church with know, when I get a job, the people I work with will know.

People have been treating me differently, but they tend to be treating me better, or if they don't, then someone else around me defends me.