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Hello, I will not give you my life story, but what brought me here. There's a lot "missing" from the post that I won't bore you with. I'm not sure how much help it really is to post this, I just am relieved to find your community. I don't expect many people to read this but that is OK.

After the learning specialist at my college died, I met her replacement, who suggested Asperger's. I immediately bought, read & marked up Attwood's book twice (in different colors mind you), and am profiting from AS Literature. Attwood's book was like a walk down memory lane. I continue to refer to it when I have trouble. I have scored high on all the AS tests, and my personality inventories also give good correlation.

My Mom's degree is in Special Ed. She thinks I have ADD. While I have already seen a world-class ADHD doctor - who put me on amphetamines, worsened my depression, and refused to consider AS - She does not want me to see an Autism Specialist. It's probably AS with ADD. I think it would really help if she read about it too, but she thinks she knows it already, and I don't know how to talk with her about it without upsetting her.

I am presently taking an Abnormal Psychology class at the local community college, as an excuse to keep studying myself. Having taken the professor for PS101, he gave me a "S.A.R." ("something ain't right") and told me to see somebody, but I am not sure where to go to. Like many Aspies I love to read the special interest internet forums.

I have a full-time job, which is difficult to go to every day due to the long hours and high supervision. I work for a large book company, I sort books by myself, handle thousands of them every weekday. Prior to this I worked for a college library.

My biggest interest right now is world religions and theology, especially Eastern Christianity. In a couple of weeks I am visiting St. Tikhon's Monastery in PA, to spend time with the monks there, to see how they live, sleep, eat, work, etc. I also will be seeing the seminary there which I would like to attend.

There's a real emptiness that comes without an "official" diagnosis, frustration from many years of misunderstanding.

I considered posting this in several different forums, but this seemed like the best place for it. It has taken me over an hour to write, I have edited it countless times, moved paragraphs around, etc. I don't even think it's very good either. Yet I have emails my colleagues sent to me weeks ago which I still am putting off.

Good to be with all of you,
Jordan

Also - Is this "The" AS forum? Or is there another big one which I've missed?

hi jordan:)

i have no idea if this is the forum, but it's a pretty good one

Hi J0rdan! They thought I had ADHD too but when I went in for evaluation they said they found no evidence of it just Aspergers. When I was a kid I was put in special education classes even though I was not learning disabled.

I can certainly relate to dealing with people with closed minds (that's especially disturbing in medical professionals) and to being misdiagnosed.