New to WP, new to Asperger's...

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Just wanted to say "hi," total n00b here-
I was just this year diagnosed with Asperger's and I'm having a very hard time accepting it >.< so I'm hoping that I can learn more about the spectrum and other questions I have by browsing the threads here (and maybe talking to some people)...
Anyway, thanks for reading, and Happy Holidays to anyone still celebrating

You could never actually be "noob" to AS.. but either way, welcome to the wrongplanet, where you're actually from.

We receive you well: glad to have another specimen in the autistic collective. If you need any help with "normal" people, I am well versed in their ways (diagnosed professionally last year, but am almost indistinguishable from the neurotypical to the untrained eye) and would be willing to help with any quarrels you may encounter.

A new cat.

XD Lol, probably true, but I was "misinformed," shall we say, about what Asperger's was. Thanks for the welcome; this seems like a very open forum.


Aww, thank you : ). It seems I'm also fairly incognito since I've lived amongst them for years and no one even suspected, lol.


That picture is too cute- that really made me smile; thank you. ^^

...Aaaaannd I just realized I posted this in the wrong thread >facepalm<. Sorry 'bout that... working on a 7-year old laptop with an even more oddly-wired brain, lol.

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Welcome to Wrong Planet

Thanks!

Erm... is there a way I can ask a mod to move this to the right section?

There's a mod attention thread in the "WrongPlanet.net Site Discussion" forum but I can move it for you.

Welcome.

Welcome to WP!

I "passed" for sixty-five years. I can tell you, you'll be amazed at how many little things there are that add up to great big alienation, from "cute baby stories" about yourself, to the little things you do and the way that you do them that you thought were "just you".

Welcome!

Welcome!

Thanks to everyone- I look forward to .

Wow, 65 years?! That's a long time to suddenly discover something this big!

And yeah, that's pretty much the part I'm having trouble with... suddenly ALL of my little quirks; everything I thought made me "unique"... are being grouped as part of a "syndrome" >.< Ouch.

Welcome
I understand what you mean about "the little things" that make you suddenly being grouped into a condition.
for 27 years I was told I had OCD and Turrets Syndrome, but I always felt it didn't match up quite right, it didn't explain why being social was so hard and awkward, it didn't explain why I wear "the mask" If it were Turrets I'd blurt stuff out as uncontrolled as a sneeze, but its not like that for me. I actually am aware of what I'm saying, and it all makes sense in my head, it all seems right. Untill it leaves my lips.
I find comfort in the fact that for the first time in 27 years, I finally have answers, and I now know, there are many people out there wired just like me, completely backwards from your garden variety NTs

Welkome to WP

Mick

You have to understand that _nobody_ was diagnosing Asperger's until 1995 or so, when the DSMIV came out, and it was a pretty obscure field of psychology. I'd been focusing my attention on Theology and Church Politics since before then. I knew that I had chronic Clinical Depression, but no big deal: I also had pills that worked for that. My husband got his Masters in Clinical Psychology in 1970, and I'm reasonably sure that he never heard of Dr Asperger's research. People knew about Autism, but that was only the Low Functioning, "mentally ret*d" end, and I was most certainly not that: I was the "Little Professor" type. These days, it's being caught in Elementary School. When I was in First Grade, I was reading, and higher than grade level in math, and nobody particularly cared that I couldn't tie my shoes except those I had to ask to tie them for me. When I was a kid, I had meltdowns, then called tantrums, and I learned not to have them where anybody could see me. I never did have, so far as I can remember, the extreme sensory sensitivities.