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Hello, everyone! I’m new here! I’m not using personal information about where I live, my name, etc... for fear of discrimination from my employer. I was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder when I was 3 years old along with border-lined hyperactivity. It’s great to meet everyone!

Greetings and salutations.

Hi. I was also diagnosed at a young age: I was probably around 5 when I was first diagnosed. Although it was a diagnosis of autism with a question mark, since back then Asperger was not available. But then, when I was 15, I was diagnosed with Asperger, and this time without a question mark.

The way they diagnosed it back then, in Russia, is opposite to how they do it now. As you know, in DSM 5, in America, Level 1 is the mildest, Level 2 is intermediate, and Level 3 is the most severe. Back then in Russia they had "group" instead of "level", they had four groups rather than three, and it was the opposite: "group 1" was the most severe and "group 4" was the mildest. But, interestingly enough, Asperger was "group 3" while HFA was "group 4". When I talked to them as an adult, they said its because people with Asperger have more restricted interests than people with HFA do. Although they agree that there are certain areas in which HFA (or group 4) is more impaired than Asperger (or group 3). So I guess the difference between group 3 and group 4 in terms of severity wasn't that clear cut. But as far as group 1 and group 2, thats quite clear: basically group 1 is profoundly ret*d autistic who is non-verbal and group 2 is rainman.

In any case, when I was 5, in Russia, I was diagnosed with "autism group 3", with a question mark, and then when I was 15, in America, I was diagnosed with Asperger, without question mark.

But what about yourself? When you said you had Pervassive Developmental Disorder (PDD), do you really mean PDD NOS? I take it you were diagnosed under DSM 4?

So when you said you are afraid of being discriminated by your employer, are you saying you actually seen your employer discriminate against people, or is it just a general fear?

Hey there! I'm new as well, not knowing for sure my diagnosis, but definitely feeling not an ordinary man

Welcome to WP! I think you will find some nice people here...from various spots on the spectrum, and some friendly folk who are not on the spectrum.

(I'm diagnosed as ASD-1 but outside DSM5 I'd be an Aspie.)

Hello
I was diagnosed late in life. One of the people who has survived the torment that NTs give to non-diagnosed ASD people/

Probably more of us end up dead due to bullying etc.

but there ya go. on a positive note. now that you have a diagnosis label
you have protection by law (in many countries) and so can stop discrimination!

Hopefully it wont happen.
Otherwise nice to meet you!

Hello. I am not your employer so all is well. If I do employ anyone I do not know about it and their wages would be pretty poor! Haha!

Oh. I do have little people on my model railway.

Oh... I can tell you a funny story about that! HAHAHAHA! But prehaps not now as it would take me a while to type it.

Welcome! I was diagnosed at a young age too.

Lets see if I can keep this short as otherwize I will be here for hours trying to explain...


In my early 20's (I remember I was 19 years old) and it was during a time I was unemployed and inbetween jobs. I was called into my local jobcentre. They wanted my permission to enter my details onto computer as they have to have everyones permission to do that. It was their new computer system as before that everything was done on paper.

So the lady who was about my Mothers age was asking me questions and typing what I was saying which was going on the computer. She was typing quite quickly so she was spending more attention to typing then what I was saying.

She asked me about job experiences which then due to my age was limited, but she asked me about if I did voluntry work. I had been helping at a local preserved steam railway, so I started to talk about that. And she also asked me about my hobbies which I am into model railways. Well. The real and model are inter connected as my hobby (Special interest as it is far more then a hobby) spans both and many other areas.
So with these questions I had moved from the real railways to talk about model railways while somehow she was talking about the real railways? Anyway, I was watching as whatever I said was being typed word foe word on her new jobcentre computer.
So she was asking about experiences and I was referring by then to my model railway layout. I was describing carpentry work, along with electrical work and working on buildings etc, and she asked what I dis with the buildings, so I said build them and paint them etc...

But then she asked "Do you do anything with people?" Slightly puzzled I said "Yes, I paint them and I stick them on the platforms" (With glue).
She then became puzzled as I noticed she started slowing down what she had just typed while she read it! (She was kind of automatically typing what I said and reading it from the screen if that makes sense? My Mums a typistad she does that).
We kind of both looked at each other rather puzzled.
Anyway. It was the end of the event so it was time foe me to leave and we said our goodbyes to be polite.
As I was walking away from the jobcentre I realized that as a 19 year old man, I must have been the most qualified man on the planet as she had been writing these things down as my job experiences and I was talking about my special interest in model railways. I had a chuckle to think what went down on the computer! Hahahah!

Lol .. I can believe that .....about how a job center works ....... Now your over qualified ..... MountainGoat.

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