life is better since learning about ASD and joining WP

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17 Dec 2009, 2:00 am

I just want to say to everyone here that my quality of life has improved tremendously by joining this website. Before I learned about PDD and AS I had a great sense of baggage. I was always worried that I was slowly going crazy and I would spend a lot of energy trying to block out or completely forget the past. Since I've learned about autism, I've let go of everything and forgiven myself for being so different and for not being able to make friends sometimes. Since I've met all you guys I've learned that I'm not alone. I've gotten some great advice and also lots of inspiration....So THANKS!

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17 Dec 2009, 2:12 am

Happy to be of service, and glad you like it here.

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17 Dec 2009, 2:31 am

dustintorch wrote:

I'm guessing you were diagnosed recently?

I was diagnosed at 24. I can appreciate how you feel.
I haven't totally forgiven myself yet -- or, rather, haven't forgiven the unrealistic expectations handed to me growing up -- but it's something I work at.

My life, in many ways, has a superficial appearance of being 'worse,' but in reality, it is improving. I just jumped backwards a few moves in order to start again, with both eyes open.

Good to hear you are feeling so much better about yourself.

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17 Dec 2009, 6:35 am

Being here on WP has made me realize that I do have more of a need to communicate than I realized. It's just easier for me here, because I can take the time to think about what I want to say and respond to. I like that I can bring up subjects out of the blue and talk to people with similar interests. I've noticed less generalized anxiety since I've been here.

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17 Dec 2009, 7:05 am

I hate the expression "quality of life", but I can appreciate what you are saying, Dustin. I now know "crazy" and "me" are *not* synonymous, and learning about myself here has greatly helped along the line of putting my past in perspective. I am often still that little boy with his nose pressed to the glass, but now I have the comfort of knowing I can turn away from there and again come here for a while.

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17 Dec 2009, 2:53 pm

RampionRampage wrote:

dustintorch wrote:

Yes I was...I was diagnoses at 22 and it felt really good to have a reason for the behavior that I was judged by so much. It put a lot of things into perspective and gave me a greater understanding of myself. The book "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome" by Tony Attwood, really helped too. Even though I have PDD-NOS, not AS, it's pretty much the same stuff.

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17 Dec 2009, 3:26 pm

Being here is much better for me, than trying to talk to mental health workers, about my problems. I see this as a home and a counciling service. If it weren't for WP, I probably wouldn't be alive, today. You guys have saved my life. I found this site, when I was on my last straw, back in the Summer of 2004, and I've noticed that it took less than a week for my mood to improve. I'm alive, Pro-life and breathing, because of you guys, instead of suicidal or 6 feet under the ground.

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17 Dec 2009, 5:01 pm

well said, dustintorch.

I'd say the quality of my life is much improved just because I have a completely different perspective on it since coming here. once I was dx'd a few months ago, my lifelong depression all but evaporated. I haven't even had a meltdown in a while now, just because I've become aware of the sensory warning signals.

I'm in my 40's, so that's a long history of misery, and now I'm feeling ok about myself for the first time in my life.

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22 Jul 2010, 6:41 pm

dustintorch posted (in part): I just want to say to everyone here that my quality of life has improved tremendously by joining this website...So THANKS... - dustin - Agree 100%. - pgd

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22 Jul 2010, 9:00 pm

My life's gotten harder, but in a good way. I'm starting to finally understand why I act the way I do and I'm in the process of making changes that hopefully will give me a life that I can be comfortable with rather than struggling and failing in doing things the "normal" way. It's stressful and scary but quite exciting. I used to think I was slowly going crazy too.. now I realise I'm just normal in my own way.

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