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how did you family react when you were diganosed?

How do the deal with the problems you face? are they understding?

If you were diganosed late-did they treat you any diffently when you recived your diaanosis?

i was dianosgd quite young, i think my parents, my mum espially found it very had and i feel it contibutied to the break down of my parents marriage but they are alot better now im older.


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I don't know. I think they tried to do their best to help me, since they still do. However, my parents sometimes argue, even because of something I do, but this doesn't happen many times.

Yes, they are very understanding, and always try to help me.

Not my case, because I was diagnosed for the first time when I was 6.

Some were in denial, some didn't care, some were speculating about other family members

They don't - I can't talk about it with them without them getting upset

Yes. They started to ostracize me from the rest of the family. If it's possible they actually gave me less sympathy for any problems that I had.

I floated the idea to them years ago and made my mother watch Bones. Then, at some point, they pushed me to get diagnosed, so by the time it came, they were very supportive.

As terrible as it is to say, I probably lucked out by having an NT brother who is much more screwed up than I am, so I never had the privilege of being the "black sheep" or the "weird one."

Last edited by Tyri0n on 30 Dec 2012, 1:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I was diagnosed at 16-17, but no, they didn't treat me any differently unless you count them realizing why I am the way I am and trying to not push certain things beyond my limits to take them. Although they do from time to time, try to remind me of stuff (which is good, but can get annoying sometimes) that I probably forget about. So I guess if anything, they're more understanding of my situation and feelings about it.

My mother is sad about it ever since the diagnosis, which really irritates me because I don't see it as separate from my personality and feel her sadness as a disappointment in me as a person. She now is more helpful with the problems I face though so that's good. The rest of my family seems to have ignored the diagnosis, which I'm somewhat okay with.
I was diagnosed in September this year.

Denial..... despite me going to a clinical psych that specialises in ASD and adults, they insisted I get a diagnosis from some other psychiatrist that is not an ASD specialist.

I gave up trying to defend myself and the diagnosis..... my parents are so far left of normal themselves that they have no concept of normality. Its something I didn't really find out either until my mid twenties.

Right now, no one in my family is talking to me except for my father ... and he was recently diagnosed with AS, too (but the others are still talking to him because they don't want to be left out of the will ... in my opinion).

I think as far as their interactions with ME go, they just didn't know what to do so chose the path of least resistance ... avoiding me. Maybe I'll change MY will and leave all of them out of it.