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Hello world! I'm brand new here, and it takes me a long while to get the hang of a new website. Just wanted to drop by the newbie board and say hi.

I'm currently digging my way out of a poor mental health situation, and working towards getting an official ASD diagnosis. I have a second appointment with a psychologist this friday, who thinks ASD is a definitely possibility (as well as ADD), so I'll be taking some tests. Also working with my longterm psychiatrist who laughed at the suggestion of ASD, and thinks I may only be suffering from an attention disorder. Hoping to reach further self-discovery!

Welcome. Although this board focuses on ASD, we have members that don't have ASD but other issues, so even if you don't have ASD I'm sure you'll find other people here you can relate with.

As for your long term psychiatrist, realize a lot of professionals are confused by autism, especially high functioning autism-- it's fairly new in the literature and poorly understood. So take it with a grain of salt, and it's good you're getting a second opinion.

edit: grammar.

Welcome! Hope you enjoy it here.

Hey orangegoldgreen welcome.

I use *greetings* I tried launching a shiny pokéball at your head but it merely bounced off :/ Hope your mental health journey yields some useful answers and gives rise to a better direction

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

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Loved the wild noob intro...

Hope you get some answers in decent time. I am in a similar situation and that was my reason for joining, too.

ASD is an attention disorder.

Think of the Good Witch of the North saying, "Are you a good doctor, or a bad doctor?"

Also, don't tell your longterm psychiatrist any of this.

Look for help in as many places as possible. Even the parking lot at Wal-Mart.

Strangely enough, I got more answers from a fire hydrant than I did from some of the biggest psych MD's in my area.

It's nice to meet you Welcome to Wrong Planet!