Hi Dan, Welcome to WP.
I'm new here myself, I haven't been professionally diagnosed but a week or so ago I stumbled onto a few self-diagnostic tests and began to follow up on my high scores.
A whole new world opened up as I realized there might be a reason for all the weirdness and challenges I've always faced.
A lot of questions are being answered by this discovery, and I'm hoping it will make things easier for me to cope with the basics of life. I'm 49 yrs old already so I have had to learn how to get through a lot of the stuff on my own, and I believe I have somehow achieved a comfortable peace with myself and my frictions with the world. The biggest problem I face and have always faced is financial. Jobs can be difficult, the idea of putting such effort into selling my life away by the hour is hard to come to grips with, I don't really get the whole capitalism thing so motivation has to be something much more than a paycheck, and I have not been lucky to enough to find a comfortable situation out of sheer luck- no family business to fall into or anything like that.
Anyway, Hope you're doing well and that your diagnosis gives you some peace of mind and some clarity. I just don't see Asperger's as a disability at all and I personally have always felt more "Correct" than the mainstream, typical ways of thinking, but that could just be me.
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Krishnamurti
05 Jan 2013, 9:13 am
