Wow, thank you for the lovely validating warm welcomes!
Kiprobalhato, I seem to want to pick an argument with everything you say, so please forgive me in advance, but I don't understand your first sentence, it sounds illogical to me; on the other hand, in the world of autism, our present understanding of it and the crazy world we live in... I'm not surprised!
For the painting I have added my blog address to my sig, but am not quite ready to face dealing with Photobucket again. I will in due course, promise
About welcoming me to the club, I thought you need to be qualified to hand out diagnoses to do that, or am I being too literal? Maybe I'm also being confusing. I tried to get a diagnosis from the NHS and while they were happy to concede that my brain thinks like that of an autistic person, I do not have the appearance of one, or the need of their services, so the psychiatrist and clinical psychologist did not give me a diagnosis. They did offer to help me become more normal, more sociable; apparently it does not matter whether I am autistic or not as they would treat me the same. I find that worrying.
Can you explain what you meant?