04 Oct 2011, 5:00 pm
I was watching some dumb commercial that threw a word out there that I had never heard before so I obviously had to look it up (that's how they get ya!) the word was Aspergers. WOW!! !! It was like reading about my life history!! ! I was not looking for any explanation or help or diagnosis, I am 30 and had just accepted the fact that I am a complete weirdo and I'm rude and that is just who I am! Then to just randomly find out that there are people like me and that there is a reason for the problems I've had is incredible!! !! !! Years ago I was diagnosed as bipolar but it was not a very good fit and did not explain a lot of my day to day issues and quirks or the fact that most people with bipolar manifest symptoms in their teens and early adulthood while I've had issues since birth! I am touch sensitive and from birth could not stand to be held or touched at all, much to the suffering of my mom and grandma. About the only thing that BP did explain was my obsessions that would last for months or even years which is also better explained by AS since I've been that way since early childhood. When I was in third or fourth grade I was into genetics and astronomy and would collect facts like a starving person grabs at food which I still do. Everyone always thought I was like an absentminded professor and my family just excepted it as my quirkiness but other kids were not so forgiving and I never did get a good handle on socializing. Unstructured social times are a mine field for me and sometimes I feel like I'm running through that mine field completely blind folded!! !! I'm pretty sure all my neighbors hate me even though I really tried hard to be friendly and likable. My husband seems to be pulling away more and more even though I can't seem to see what I'm doing that is so wrong or construed as mean or spiteful 
I just feel like for the first time there is hope and that I am not a freak, Just reading others posts and articles makes me feel like if others are like me and are making it and there is help than I can live a fuller life. I know there is more out there and that I am missing out on a lot and now I feel like someone finally pointed me in the right direction 
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04 Oct 2011, 5:09 pm
Welcome to the party!
Hope you enjoy your stay here 
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04 Oct 2011, 7:14 pm
To WrongPlanet!! !
04 Oct 2011, 8:41 pm
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04 Oct 2011, 10:29 pm
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25 Oct 2011, 7:32 pm
Thanks guys! I got a diagnosis and the psyc is talking about meds. for the anxiety. My mom knew something my whole life and she agrees that this finally fits. Things are definitely looking up especially now that I can explain my issues and work with the people in my daily life on ways to use my strengths and work around, or on, my weaknesses
