kraftiekortie wrote:
Indeed...when I found out about Asperger's....it clarified lots of things for me.
I was diagnosed as autistic when I was 3. I went to special schools.
It clarified, even more, why I was the way I was after I started speaking at 5 1/2.
I wasn't exactly autistic in my view, after I spoke--until I read about Asperger's being a form of autism. I felt separate from my friend's brother--who was severely autistic, had to be watched constantly, and never developed speech. Not in a snobby sense, though. More in the sense that I was (selfishly) relieved that I wasn't so severely affected.
Funny enough I went to special schools when I was younger because I had a physical disability. I then moved on to normal school. I found it very hard to adapt to normal school. People assumed it was just my physical disability why and so did I. Which was a big reason and the fact that my special school did not give me a proper education. I did not know how to write at age 7 or do any good math. So I had to learn pretty fast which I ssomehow did in a year! To this day I think I did not receive nearly enough credit for. Not only that but I was an oddball from the rest of the kids in the aspie way. I was bullied by students, teachers were very unsympathetic and I always got in trouble. I also had a very painful operation that year that took months to recover from. It was a very traumatic year when I was 7/8. Sorry to tell you my tragic life story it got much much better after that!
And I'm sorry to hear about your brother I understand why you would feel that way its hard living in a neurotypical world.