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22 Jan 2009, 11:20 pm

sort of the other way 'round; one of my friends doesn't think I'm an aspie because 'they have to have the same thing for breakfast every morning or they go nuts'...well, in time, I'll try to explain...;)



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22 Jan 2009, 11:36 pm

pakled wrote:
sort of the other way 'round; one of my friends doesn't think I'm an aspie because 'they have to have the same thing for breakfast every morning or they go nuts'...well, in time, I'll try to explain...;)

Same here, my family thinks that it's simply impossible for me to have A.S., though it's totally obvious.


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22 Jan 2009, 11:48 pm

My mom is a clinical psychologist and doesn't think I have AS even though I was diagnosed by a specialist. Denial? She just keeps telling me I'm very social. I can see why she thinks that, but she seems to selectively ignore all the other stuff. Then again, she's probably AS herself, if you ask me.



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23 Jan 2009, 12:22 am

for the roughly 6 years I've been diagnosed, I have only been accepting the diagnosis since mid December 2008. Was I denying it? For the most part, yes. After denial came the phase of "I know I have this, but I'm gonna push this to the back of my mind and pretend it doesn't exist and see if it goes away, even though I know it won't, and I don't want to understand it either"... Now I am accepting it and making steps to improving my life accordingly. And if it weren't for my step mom forcing the diagnosis on me, my life would be far worse right now. I haven't gotten a lot of the stuff I should have had, but what I have gotten has greatly changed who I am for the better. My step mom is the reason I am who I am today, and without her I probably wouldn't be in university.



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23 Jan 2009, 12:56 am

I have to eat the same thing for breakfast each day, or I won't eat. :)

Anyway, I probably am, but in the opposite direction; the diagnosis from Attwood's crew of Asperger's always hangs over my head (which really, if we are to use Gillberg's criteria for Asperger's, everyone who developed speech, but has Autism, will have it).