About to have my Asperger Coming Out

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Hi, I'm new here.

Last week I have finally accepted that I probably have Asperger Syndrome. Today I have made an appointment with my doctor (actually the substitute, my doctor is on vacation) to make it official.

I'm quite nervous and just found this site. So, I thought I come out to you guys first. It might make it easier in a few minutes at the doctor's office.

BTW: My English is bad, because I'm German.

That's all for now, thank you for reading!

Welcome! and don't worry about your appoinment, or grammar. It's fine!

Welcome to WP!

Wilkommen!

Welcome greetings to the WP forums, AlienSquid.

Thank you for all the welcomes!

Update:

Just returned from the doctor's. Here are three mistakes I made:

- I told her that the final reason to admit to myself that I probably have AS, was, that I was under a lot of pressure to explain to some bureaucrats Monday and Tuesday why I haven't done a lot of stuff that I should have done. And that telling them, that I have started treating my AS might buy me some time and make it easier to face these situations.
- I figured, I could easily explain, why I thought that I had AS, because I had thought so much about it the last few days. Wrong! Under pressure. I could only cite two or three examples that weren't that convincing. I should have written a list at home.
- I had way too high hopes about leaving today with some treatment for my symptoms. I only got a psychiatrist's appointment in three weeks and a tip to contact an autism center, that insists on heavy questionnaire exchange by letter before any analysis or treatment will happen.

All in all, I guess, that's everything that I could realistically expect.

She told me at two different times in our conversation:
"I think you see now, that you need to change" and
"AS is quite fashionable now"

Of course, if I am right and I have AS, I am pretty bad at reading between the lines. But I thought it meant "You just picked something from the Internet to make me get you out of the trouble, that you created yourself with your laziness"

Now that I have typed it out, I'm not so sure that that is a good conclusion, but it made me quite angry at the time. Over the years people have tried to put me too often into different drawers, when they couldn't figure me out. "Gay" and "Lazy" were among the top picks. And I thought that admitting having AS would at least stop that.

But she might not have implied that and I'm not angry anymore. So joining here and writing about my weird thoughts and feelings (Internet anonymity be praised) seems to have helped already.

I guess it is okay to post thoughts that are all over the place on this board, so I'm going to press "Submit" now.

I thought I was getting better at this opening up thing, but I had to justify myself with that last sentence, and I still have not pressed "Submit"

To WrongPlanet!! !

Welcome to WrongPlanet, and welcome to my Mid 60s time warp.

Welcome here!

Hello AlienSquid, welcome, enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!

Hello AlienSquid,
I got my diagnosis from my family doctor (GP) about a year ago and since the have spoken to a psychiatrist. Both seemed fascinated by me and not at all dismissive. I get the impression that they see AS as a advantage so I would hope your experience is similarly positive.