How do you identify?

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I would say I'm autistic.

Aspie-Autistic or "Aspie" "Autistic

I don't usually tell anybody these days. I've told everybody I'm close to, and mostly it's as if I never said it, except for my partner who understands why I can't cope with too much background noise etc. With people I'm not close to, there isn't usually time for matter to come up, and I don't usually have any trouble coming over as reasonably normal and harmless.

I do see myself quite strongly in an Aspie light though, it does seem to be a part of who I am. I think about it a lot, but that's because I think I can develop better coping strategies by doing that, I don't identify myself as Aspie as much as I think about how the traits express in me. I still have much the same sense of identity as I had before I knew of AS, it's just got yet another dimension now.

Before my Dx (and before the new DSM came out) I would say I think I may have Asperger's, or I think I'm an aspie. Since my official Dx is Autism Spectrum Disorder, I now just say I'm autistic, or I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't use Aspergers or aspie to describe myself.

I identify by myself (my name)