What an aspie would be like if...

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I was in trouble a lot with teachers/work colleagues and basically thought it was my fault. It's much better now I have the diagnosis because the people at work know about it and I can feel confident in talking to them and know that they are much less likely to start hating me for some incomprehensible reason.

While I was only recently diagnosed, I am finding the diagnosis to be life-changing:

a) I now understand why I have had difficulty with social interactions in the past (which is a huge part of being human). I used to think it was them. Now, I realize it is simply me. I can make adjustments, where desired and appropriate, based upon this new-found knowledge.

b) I now understand why certain situations used to make me feel uncomfortable. Previously, I “ignored” or “shut off” those “signals”, particularly when it seemed inappropriate (from a neurotypical perspective). Now, I much more carefully listen (to these signals).

c) I have significantly reset my expectations on what I expect in life. I no longer need to suffer the pain of trying to live a neurotypical lifestyle with neurotypical aspirations. It wasn’t working. I just didn’t realize it.

My guess is that the diagnosis impacts each person a different way, depending upon how they lived their life and perceived the world prior to the diagnosis.