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Hi everyone.

I'm a 31 year old male, Living in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, who has just been diagnosed with Aspergers.

I've always felt I'm a little different to most of the people I meet, I find eye contact REALLY uncomfortable, I find social situations very difficult, and now so much makes sense that didn't before.

I have a son who is 3 and a half, and a while ago now it was suggested to myself and my partner that he might have autism, as he wasn't speaking at the level they expected, wasn't playing "purposefully", with toys, and was facinated with the wheels on toy cars and would sit there for extended periods of time and spin them, among other things.

So I went home and googled autism.

And while reading about it, more and more of what I read I found myself saying to myself "hang on, sounds like they're describing me".

After a lot of reading, I thought it could be possible that I might have Aspergers, so I contacted Autism Victoria, and got a list of doctors that specialize in it. I then got a reference from my doctor, and booked an appointment to go and get assessed.

Reason being that I want to do the best I can for my son, and if I had some sort of ASD and didn't know it, I feel I couldn't be as much help to him as if I know for sure one way or the other. As I described it to my partner, it could very well be a case of the blind leading the blind.

Anyway, I have to admit I'm extremely annoyed that I didn't discover this until recently, as I have had a lot of interaction with various members of the medical profession, having been diagnosed with Insulin Dependant Diabetes when I was 13, and having been hospitalised many times in my teens as a result of a mix of the diabetes and depression.

Anyway, "Hi everyone!"

Welcome to WP!

Thank you. I have a lot to learn I think, I was only diagnosed less then a week ago, and am only just realising which ways it affects my life and how I interact with others.

Like I said to my partner the other night:


I like to think I just think differently to those who are NT, but also I can see how it affects interactions.

i found out about it a year-ish ago, not diagnosed either. tricky business. i need a diagnose to get out of bum-payment (what i call the smallest possible welfare ammount they pay here)
even at the welfare office theyre telling me how unfair it is, but my doc refuses :S to even give me an examination. weird world. shes a new doc, and i SUSPECT my mother has told my doc to not help me. long story.
i cant think of anything else, and the timing of new doc, telling my mother i need a doc for evaluation, she snapping, and the doc refusing. huh.

Hi, welcome to WP.

I received an informal confirmation of my self-diagnosis just a few days ago, and I also have much to learn. I have long known I think differently than other people, and I suspect I might never understand why they would not want to think like me ... but then, maybe they want to be like me just as much as I had always thought I should be like them but everybody was afraid to ask, eh?!

Welcome to WP.

Nice to meet you, FordMan, and welcome to the Wrong Planet neighborhood.

To WrongPlanet!! !