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I read quite a bit today, I had a break from lessons so I went and sat in the park and read it. I'm really enjoying it.



Thanks for your comments, they did help.
I went to the meeting and it seemed to go horribly. I couldn't say how I felt and when I tried she just ignored it. She gave me this test thing where she would ask questions like 'do you procrastinate a lot?' and 'do you find it hard to start tasks?' and do you day dream a lot?' things like that, and I had to answer once a week, twice a week or daily (which I didn’t really get because some things can happen more than twice a week but then maybe less than daily, or everyday for a month and then not for a while and so on). When the test was finished she said my scores were fairly low so she didn't think I had aspergers. Then she said it's a relief, I don’t think it is. I mean even if I don’t have aspergers which is fine, I still feel the way I do. I sill have problems with eye contact and social situations, just because she doesn't think I have aspergers it doesn't mean I am magically going to get better at these things. Now I'm mad and feel down. Not because she said that I don’t have it because I am no expert for all I know I might not, but at the fact that she didn't even listen to me. She looked at one test and made a snap judgement.
Now I’m confused as to what to do next. Maybe I should just give up trying to get a diagnosis, I feel as if I keep trying I’m going to seem like an attention seeker.



Thanks , I've listened to the radio show, read the book and seen the movie, its awesome!!

Also an HHTTG fan. Don't know why I didn't use that as my SN. But something related to the topic, If I were to tell my parents, based on experience, they would probably do one of two things:

1)Think I was blaming my problems on a disorder, when really they're all my fault
or
2) Won't believe me

I'm afraid to tell them as well. They used to use sending me to the shrink as a joke or a threat.

People talk about a cure, sometimes I wish there was an uncure, like maybe that teacher who gave you the test could be magically transformed into an aspie. You could check back with her in a year or so and then give her some written multiple choice test based on periferal characteristics that some aspies have and some don't. Then you could tell her that all the things she experienced every day in dealing with other people and inside her own mind didn't really happen.

You could tell her that she's just like everybody else, because everybody sometimes has problems getting along with other people. You could tell her that it's normal that she spends hours every day learning about pine trees because a lot of people have hobbies.

This has all kinds of possibilities. They could tell blind people that they're not really blind, they have ABCD/WTF and they just need to take some pills, then, if they try hard enough, they can learn to see. Professionals know about this stuff.

Maybe you could start right now. Tell her she doesn't know anything at all about her own life and everything she has learned is meaningless because somebody she barely knows or has never met gets called a professional. You better wait till the end of the semester, though.

You have put into words exactly what I was thinking during the meeting and still think now. If only there was a way to show her what it is like to be me.

Thankfully she isn't one of my subject teachers so I wont have to see her again unless it is around the college.

Some people are just SO against the idea!! "you're just different, eccentric, odd, off the cuff, etc." The idea that I'm ASpic seems to upset them. My wife sometimes feels yes I am, and then she'll say no I'm not.

"Asperger's Syndrome? It's all in yer head!! !"
"Well, thanks, I was worried it was in my foot."

sorry about that. i don't think that i'm too sure bout what i mean either. sorry. late at night i tend to ramble on too much.

I know, I tend to do that as well. It was around that time when I said to myself "What if the Universe was shaped like a pine tree? Right down to the needles?" I've held onto that idea ever since!

Sorry to hear that it didn't go too well. I'm not sure what you should do now because I have very limited info on this subject of finding someone to help out.



I know! I got hooked on ever since I saw the movie a year ago. I've read the first book, I'm a bit into the second, but I've yet to veiw it in it's other forms. '"Oh bugger," says God, "I hadn't thought of that!" and he promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.'

I get told that, all the time. I hear it from the people at my Clubhouse. I've heard it from the people at the two places that I used to work. I hear it from my relatives. I've even heard it from my own Mom, who got me diagnosed in the first place. The only people who seemed to get it, were the people at my local Mental Health unit. They weren't exacltey politically correct about it, and they used the word, Handicap a lot. The thing is that those are the people who got it. Now I wish I didn't end my contact with them. They've figured that I'm a Rebel and that I'm just going to do what I want, so they gave me the option of not going back, so I took it.