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Kezzstar
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04 Feb 2008, 6:18 pm

Yeah, I know I've been here since last year, when people were telling me that I had this 'personality disorder' that is called Aspergers Syndrome.

I guess it never really seemed real to me. Syndromes happen to other people, not to me. I was just different. I didn't have AS.

But then this past Friday I completely melted down and I'm now being forced to consider the fact that there IS something wrong with me. And that maybe the psychologists and everyone are right and that I do have Aspergers Syndrome.

I don't know.


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04 Feb 2008, 6:24 pm

It's not a personality disorder... You don't have a disordered personality... You're not sick, just different... Welcome to the club. You're among friends that understand.


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04 Feb 2008, 10:26 pm

Syndrome was the bad guy in the Incredibles...;)

Haven't come to terms, but we're still in negotiations...;)



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04 Feb 2008, 10:39 pm

I am perfectly content with my AS status... I've worked out most of the drawbacks (the only one that still exists is getting a girlfriend, but there are other non-AS factors, such as my being grossly overweight)

For a list of what I would lose if I wasn't AS: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt55814.html



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04 Feb 2008, 11:26 pm

I still have a few problems with it some times as most people don't know what AS is. But I was relieved when I found out I had it, a lot easier to explain than Sever ADD...


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04 Feb 2008, 11:59 pm

Kezzstar wrote:
Yeah, I know I've been here since last year, when people were telling me that I had this 'personality disorder' that is called Aspergers Syndrome.

I guess it never really seemed real to me. Syndromes happen to other people, not to me. I was just different. I didn't have AS.

But then this past Friday I completely melted down and I'm now being forced to consider the fact that there IS something RIGHT with me. And that maybe the psychologists and everyone are right and that I do have Aspergers Syndrome.

I don't know.


Fixed.



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05 Feb 2008, 12:13 am

Kezzstar wrote;

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I guess it never really seemed real to me. Syndromes happen to other people, not to me. I was just different. I didn't have AS.


Same here. It took me about five months to accept it enough to admit to myself that I have AS. Then I registered here started coming. I'd lurked here for months before that.
I don’t know if I’ve really come to terms with it or not. I don’t like having it and feel like (more like KNOW) I’ve missed too much.
Anyway, I can take some comfort in knowing I’m not the only one in the world like I thought before.



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05 Feb 2008, 12:53 am

I know; I thought syndromes happened to other people and not me too.


I thought I hated being treated like I had AS, but what I really hated was being treated like I had AS and AS was something it was not, or like I had a different kind of AS than what I had.