Well it's official

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The psychologist agrees that I meet the criteria for an ASD. He will be putting this in writing so I can put it on file in the Human Resource department of my employer. The distinction between HFA and Asperger's is rather academic at this stage in my life, but I feel HFA is the more correct DX based on extrapolating present and clearly remembered behaviors and symptom backwards into pre-narrative memories would suggest that I have always had the requisite developmental issues.

I guess the real question is what do I do with this knowledge? It feels like a large piece of reality has come into sharp focus with a subsequent flood of input that needs to be processed.


I have both trepidation and a sense that I have a real chance at making appropriate changes in my interactions with people and life in general.

I think 2011 is going to me a very interesting year.

you could change your status to 'diagnosed'. I suppose it's business as usual

Now I guess you're officially... exactly what you were to begin with. And now you officially know... exactly what you'd already guessed. I'd say I'm glad to welcome you to our ranks, but, really, has anything changed?

Congratulations.

The situation hasn't changed only your perception and data of it. Carry on.

LOL. Of course you are all correct. Nothing has changed about my brain. Only my understanding of it. A new set of tools for exploring my world.

It's a weird thing, paradoxically needing to have a written DX at the same time not exactly caring about it.

Sometimes it's good to have the confirmation.

Everyone will treat you as they always have. If you respond differently, it'll confuse them.

To the extent that they have information on how to get along with you, and have the goodwill to want to, they'll be trying to modify their natural responses. We know how easy that is. Those with less information may be interested, suspicious or hostile. You'll have to deal with that. After a couple of years you'll be wishing you'd never mentioned it, but persist.

There's an entire population of unknowing aspies threaded through our community. They and their families make up a significant part of social resistance to change, and they're all hidden. Autism is often perceived as a threat, and deserving of hostility, passive resistance or indifference.

We have (well, I think we have) to develop and practice good relations with NT communities, good ways of identifying and helping kids, ways to help people into good life alignments and make a crashpad of good news and feeling about diagnosis to catch the rest of us as they catch on. We're a long way from any of that yet.

I was a tenant, and my property manager gave me a living hell, If I didn't buy a house I would lost the lot, there is some nice ones i admit, but we got to eat but I picked a profession that makes a decent dollar, I really think property management industry is sick of tenants messing up houses, by the way, I seen really horrid stories, the house I was renting, I was using it to run a business to help pay the rent, I was a college student at the time, and the business was starting up, it was nearly there as well before the prop mgr interfered with it.

I would have lost everything because of a clash between a property manager and me, and my business would have collapsed, But I had enough surplus to buy a home with a mortgage and now finished college last year with two info tech diplomas.

Happy ending, prop mgr pushed me into buying a home .