"I am 37 and will be 38 in July. its not only here, the age differeance..i see it on whatever AS site or dating site for AS that ive been browsing about on. for some reason, there arent many folks in their mid or late 30s posting on AS sites...perhaps because more younger people are being diagnosed now with AS as awareness of AS rises in the medical comunity? i walked around for the first 34 years of my life believing i was 'normal' and just unlucky in life..until one day i read a posting in a doctors office waiting room about AS ...it soundesd like me .. i was found to have AS after years of being mis diagnosed as 'depressed'... Lisa"
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Lisa, Hi. Yes, I suspect you are correct. I only first heard the name "Asperger" in the late '90s or early '00s. Before that nobody knew - we were all just labeled "odd" or, if we did well in the world and seemed to prosper, "eccentric." If we had a hard time making it in the world, we were "crazy." I spent over 40 years thinking there was something "wrong" with me and trying to be something I am not. It's a relief to not have to do that anymore and not worry about "sanity" or the lack thereof. And I'm so glad younger people might have options that we didn't have.
Yes, I, too, have had the diagnosis of depression - which was appropriate, because I was pretty [expletive deleted] depressed! It was as if I was in a play - dragged in off the street while walking by and told I was an actor starring in a mainstage play where everyone else had the scripts for weeks. And where I'd never seen a copy, was given one typed in a foreign language with the pages out of order, and shoved onstage. And that it was opening night...And the lights flipped on, with me in the spotlight and the audience all out there. I've gotten pretty good at ad-libbing life, but I'd still really rather run back out into the street.
I wonder how many middle-aged people still have no clue whatsoever? After enough years one might have a tendency to hide things from the world. Perhaps from themselves. Life is hard that way, and it shouldn't have to be so.
Nice to meet you, Lisa.
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