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Great, you are probably thinking of something dirty.

Princess Tina (sorry if I haven't got name quite right), you could still have AS. A lot of health professionals don't know that much about it yet. I tried for years to get a diagnosis as I was convinced from about 1996 on that I had AS.

Part of the reason for the trouble in diagnosis was I'd developed some coping skills over the years that masked some of the symptoms and also because I'm reasonably okay in one-to-one conversations but not interacting in groups. Some other people who've posted on this thread also said it can be more difficult for teenagers and older people to get diagnosed.

The only way you could get someone like me to learn social skills (apart from over time by trial and error) is to make it a fun activity. Any hint of judgmentalism from a therapist or whoever, and I'm out of there fast. Maybe this means I have an avoidant personality too.

Re: the fonts and colours and spelling errors - it doesn't bother me - I can figure out what is being said. I think it's a bit pedantic for people to complain about them. We say other people in society don't accept us so why are we doing the same to one of our own people.

Yes, I agree on the diagnosis being harder to obtain the older you are.
After all, they think, you survived all this time didn't you, so why not the rest of your life?!
I still find it hard to explain to people what it is (autism), someone even asked when I was going to be normal!
Apparently it is not common to be diagnosed as I was at age 28 with High-Functioning Autism. Some have thought my diagnosis should be lower than what it is, given how I act. But that is just exactly what it is...an act. It has become so deeply ingrained that I know no other way to be.
However, the people on Wrongplanet and my psychologist have helped me learn that it is o.k. to be the real me and to not feel the constant pressing need to be something I am not I am sure that over the years that this acting has been a huge source of anxiety and depression.
I am glad now that I have learnt what I have. I can only move forward from here,
renaeden.

Renaeden, the trouble I have now is expecting too much of myself and not accepting my limitations. I get upset and frustrated at not functioning as well as I think I should and this is a hard thing to overcome. Yes, there has been and is, a certain amount of pressure put upon me by others to achieve and be "normal" but I've internalised it as well over the years.

I think I know what you mean!

For example, I recently went out three times in one day, the last place being friends of my parents, for dinner.
It was almost more than I could take and I was extremely irritable by the time I got home. Yet I see other people enjoy times like this, and take it all as easy as can be.
I sometimes get angry at myself for not being able to function as well as others, but then I know this is an exercise in futility!
Knowing what the limitations are and where they apply is a long, slow process, but we should get there in the end.

Renaeden, I hope so as sometimes I am my own worst enemy in expecting to be "normal". There is a while to go before I can overcome this.

Never try to be normal. Normality is conformity. Conformity is the way the system enslaves humanity. You are not a slave, you are free!

Oy, that was actually the first thing that came into my head when I read that too



Aye, I've spent way too much of my life treating socializing as if it were a second job and telling myself that it was just something I have to do, meanwhile feeling extremely jealous of the people who seemed to do it so easily and naturally! Now I know better than to push myself to extremes in that regard.
There have been so many little times in my life where I had no idea why other people thought or did things the way they did but eventually just accepted "Thats the way things are and you just have to deal with it" but now that I have an idea as to why I think that way its like I have to find my way out of this little maze I've built in my mind: What ideas to change back? what to keep? How much has become so deeply ingrained that I don't even recognize it as being something outside of my nature anymore?



Yeah!! ! Down with the man!! ! F'in Slayer!! !! !! !!

I don't want to be normal simply because I despise the common and unoriginal. Hence I also have a distaste for convention and conformity.

Though there are times I will indulge in a "fad" if I like it, despite my inherent want to do the opposite. But only because I like it and not because it's a fad. Ick.

Agreed, just don't take it too far and conform to non conformity (ie. disliking/not doing something just because the conformists like it) because that makes you just as bad. Be yourself, whatever that is.

Who wants to be Normal? Normal is boring. Just be you.

What the heck is normal anyhow?

IT IS NOT SLAYER! IT IS FROM THE SEPULTURA SONG SLAVE NEW WORLD ON THE ALBUM CHAOS AD RELEASED IN 1994. IT WAS AN ALBUM THAT TOOK SEPULTURA'S USUAL HARDCORE THRASH/DEATH METAL RIFFS AND SLOWED THEM DOWN A BIT. MEANWHILE, SLAYER WERE MORE OR LESS AS BRUTAL AS EVER AT THAT TIME.

DO NOT INSULT EXTREME METAL UNLESS YOU HAVE YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.

On a lighter note, Napalm Death have released a kickass video for their new single from the album "The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code" entitled "Silence Is Defeaning". It was so kickass. I was just flipping through the channels and I heard the riff and instantly recognised it.

I wasn't insulting Metal I just think its funny when people yell SLAYER!! !! !!!111one

I am sorry too. But the thing is that it is a way of expressing their love of one of the world's greatest extreme metal acts.

mmkay, I apologize.