Officially Diagnosed

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Just got diagnosed with Aspergers today!


Official Hello to WrongPlanet

Thrilled is definitely too strong a word. I would say relieved that something made so much sense. It was a new feeling.

I was diagnosed when I was twelve years old. To be honest, I don't recall exactly how I felt. I guess it was like, "Oh, I have Asperger Syndrome. Okay, then."

I wasn't particularly devastated nor thrilled about it, but the diagnosis did pique my interest.

Relief is definitely what I felt, a little chip on my shoulder bounced off that day!

I feel complete..
Like I've been swimming with ankle weights, and now I'm on the track sprinting.

I've been struggling for a while, and It feels good to have something that fits so well, instead of just being labelled; anxiety-depressive or OCD, ADHD etc, which none of these quite fit in particular. Where as PDD - Asperger's does.

'If you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree it will live its entire life thinking that it's stupid' - AE

I just wanted to create a poll to see what people thought when they were diagnosed!

It would have been nice to have been diagnosed earlier, I'm 19 :s

Eccentric or ecstatic?

I don't remember getting diagnosed. But when mom first told me I had it, I felt like a freak and wouldn't believe I had very little of it. How could I believe it if I was suffering daily in life and having problems fitting in and trying to be normal and struggling with school work? I thought AS was when you struggle with school work because that is when my mom would mention it. If I had very little, would I not struggle a lot with school work and it only be sometimes? The rest I was oblivious about. I was unaware and I thought what I did was normal. It also meant then I wasn't normal and I had something wrong with me and I thought if I tried harder, maybe I could get rid of it. Even when mom would tell me how my brain works different and how I learn different, I felt even more abnormal and a freak. Sometimes when she tell me what is AS, I couldn't see how it was AS because to me it was normal. She use anecdotes about me that was part of my AS and I still couldn't understand. One of them was about "stop that teasing" incident and I thought that was just a misunderstanding and she miss spoke so I couldn't understand why that was AS.

I was relieved. I wasn't defective after all.

I was 13 and mostly annoyed at having been forced to endure spending time with another human being.

I was super young, like 5, when I diagnosed, so I don't remember.

I was neutral when I was told.

i have never been diagnosed and by the looks of it never will be.

I was diagnosed last july (at 22). I was just kind of "oh that makes sense", pretty matter of fact.
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Confused and angry. I kept thinking, "Why didn't someone tell me this before?"

After a round of that, I started to make some sense of the previous forty-odd years. I ended up playing some type of whack-a-mole with the past: I'd clear one experience, then another takes its place. It's a process that needs to play itself out.

It may be what happens when you slip through the net when you're a child.

I was shocked. I wasn't looking for the diagnosis, I had preconceived ideas of why I was the way I was and of why people reacted to me as they did. It took a little for me to come to terms with it.

"Yes, I was eccentric" probably best describes how I felt. I was thrilled because it started me on the path of better understanding my eccentric life. I am happy to be a member of the autistic community.