Adult Asperger's

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Good Afternoon, Everyone.

I hope everyone is having an excellent day. I am a 34 yr old male who has been diagnosed with Asperger's. I recently graduated college with my degree in history, and am attending graduate school for my master's in history as well. I have two excellent physicians, who take fantastic care of me, but, I do not have much in the way of support on campus, so I thought I would post to this forum.

I am not ashamed of having Asperger's. In fact, I think it allows me a unique perspective. However, I am often criticized, due to having a "lack" of emotions. I do not get upset at things, I do laugh if something strikes me funny and I never let emotions judge my thinking. I do not understand why people would want to scream, cry, or get violent in any way. It boggles my mind how people can act like that. Does anyone else feel this way?

Also, I have a hard time communicating verbally with people. My physician wants me to get a portable communication device and we are in the process of working on that. For the moment, I use notecards and have found I communicate best, without using verbal communication. Does anyone else feel they communicate better by writing thoughts down? Also, regarding personal communication devices, does anyone have recommendations? Have a great day and thank you for your help!

Definitely much easier to communicate in writing.

Nowadays you can get text to speech apps on iPhone, tablets. Android phones etc so there is far less need for expensive communication devices.

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Also, In my experience when I offer people the option either to hear me by using text-to-speech or to read what I write, they usually choose to read what I have written. I usually take y laptop to appointments and type if speech is difficult. I always have my phone or notebook & pen with me at other times in case I need to write.

I like keeping my tablet with me both for the option of a text-to-speech app, and the option of just typing an letting people read off it. Also, if I need to type notes down, then I have somewhere to do it.

I've also used my tablet for recording audio in talks when I didn't want to take notes at the same time as doing things. It's been quite useful.

So something of that sort is what I'd suggest as well.

My immediate response for something like this would actually be a Nexus 7. (7" screen android tablet from google, cheapest version is $200)

Do you feel emotions but you don't let them take control over you or maybe you don't feel any emotions?

Myself, I would find it easier to communicate through a keyboard-based, text to speech device. There are keyboard accessories designed for iPad, but I'd just as soon get one of those expensive devices if I needed one.

That, and insurance unfortunately won't cover a tablet.

I can get overly emotional, so I try to stay centered but it's difficult. I think the only time I ever feel a disconnect is when depression hits. While I express myself much better in writing, I've rarely felt the need to rely completely on written expression. I work a pretty menial job, so there' s no need for much more than rote politeness.

I love my kindle fire - basically any tablet that can do text to speech and that you can download apps to would be a good investment - but some of my students use an ipod touch because they like the fact that it is so small

most of these devices will sync to your computer and you can share files between them - if you want full compatibility go for either mac or for android/pc; I use both with no problem but you get more compatibility if you stick to one platform generally. I would avoid anything that doesn't run on either mac or android - there are other systems but they tend to be less reliable and less compatible where android and mac will sync to almost anything.

check the specifications before buying anything - cheap usually means low memory/processing speed but expensive doesn't necessarily mean better.