A head injury opened my eyes!

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A week ago I was in a car accident and suffered a concussion. During my time in the hospital an MRI revealed a cyst in my brain. In my attempts to understand what this meant I kept coming across "Autism and arachnoid cyst of the brain" articles.

In my concussion haze I have been lost a lot and been having a very hard time remembering things. In this hazy clarity I came across a Aspergers AQ test.... After taking it and realizing a whole lot about myself I never noticed before I cried uncontrollably.

As a child I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia and clinical depression (this was in Nebraska in the early 90's... we were all uniformed lol). Looking back I think I would have lied and told people what I thought they wanted to hear to keep from an actual diagnosis of autism or Aspergers.

At least now I can start to see the answer to the question that has caused a lot of anger and sadness in my life... "What is wrong with everyone?" Now I just need to wrap my mind around the idea that "everyone" doesn't see the world the way I do.

Thanks...

Take care of that concussion. Just like with ASD's we know a lot more about brain bruses then we did 2 decades ago. Concussions are not often done with when you think they are.

As far as autism at some point when you are ready you will have to decide how you want to use this possible explination and if you want to have it proffessionally validated. Autism is a controversal and complicated topic so keep on reasearching.

Best of luck with everything.