Have finally joined the ranks of the Diagnosed

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Hi, I've posted here a few times in recent months. I'm a 58-year old gay man, live in New York City, and for several months, I'd been investigating the possibility that I had some degree of Asperger's syndrome, putting in my time reading books on the subject, looking at online videos, browsing thru blogs & forums, attending a couple of local support groups, as well as talking about this issue with the psychiatrist I've been seeing for the last year +, etc.

Through the organizations GRASP and AHA-NY, I found the name of a therapy center in midtown Manhattan that offers services to people on the autistic spectrum, and booked a pair of appointments with a therapist to get evaluated. She was very thorough with the forms she had me fill out beforehand, was very compassionate and informative in person, and generous with her time; this morning, she confirmed what I had suspected -- that I DO have a mild degree of Asperger's, so yey! I get to assimilate the label of Aspie into my identity if I wish to do so, knowing full well how the impending DSM V might change people's language in talking about the autistic spectrum. I like being less uncertain.

So, yippee?

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Mick