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Hi all, I'm new. My story is interesting. I began looking at Autistic Spectrum disorders due to recognizing many of the traits in my daughter, who is almost 4. My husband and I agreed they both shared some of these traits. For the past few years we've been trying to pin down what my husband's problem was, without success. When we found Asperger's, we were both stunned at the fit. What I did not expect was that it also described me to a tee.

My husband and I found comfort in each other due to our similar sensory problems (noises, lights, temperatures), social issues (loners, few friends, social awkwardness) and our preference for logic over drama at all times. We mused over the world's propensity to overreact and how life seems like something straight out of Melrose Place. We shared stories of being told we were rude, stuck up or unfeeling/unaffectionate. I think we do okay for the most part, and I've always said it took someone like him (who requires little attention) for me to be able to tolerate. And likewise, I think, for him.

As my husband read about Asperger's, he said he saw a lot of me in it. I shrugged it off at first, but soon realized he was right. I was told when I was about 13 that I exhibited these traits. My mother didn't want to hear it and we never saw that therapist again (my mother was convinced my lack of social interaction meant I had depression, and she took me to numerous professionals looking to hear that diagnosis and NEVER did).

As I read through the posts here, I was amazed. No wonder my husband and I are the only ones who seem to understand each other. It feels good to know other people experience these things too.

Has anyone taken the Aspie Quiz? How'd you score? We got 152 and 177.

I scored a 174. I have taken the test several times and always score around that area. Though not a suprise, for I have been diagnosed with AS.

Oh, and also I would like to add, welcome to the forum

Wow; Siuan, I'm so glad you and your husband were lucky enough to find each other and have each other... and then together you find out more about people like you and get diagnosed. That is so cool! Are you excited about it? Is it fun to do it together? It must be more fun than doing it alone! (Of course it depends.)


PS... my mother is in denial like yours. She, however, is the reverse... she thinks my depressive symptoms are AS symptoms, anxiety, perception problems... depression to her seems too depressing for her to contemplate. Or something.

Hello and welcome!
I have been newly diagnosed with AS. My son was diagnosed 2 years ago, and after his diagnosis I started to look at my own experiences, eventually deciding to seek diagnosis for myself.

I scored 180 for the Aspie Quiz.

Do you have other children?

Welcome to WP!

Tim

RP: Welcome, Name's Flagg, professional demon hunter by trade. Drop me a line when you need something killed.

OOC: Thought my family was the only one where everyone has AS. My mother and father both have older dx'es (my mother was born in Eurpoe and they knew about AS there before we did in the US and she managed to get my father one also.) DX'ed myself at eight.

199/200 Aspie score

Hello Siuan...welcome to WP

I hope you enjoy posting here

I got 185/200 on the Aspie Quiz. I am Diagnosed.

Hello, Siuan! Welcome from another AS family!

[quote="richie"]Welcome to WrongPlanet
Just a few moments ago I welcomed another person who is self DX'd.
(PurpleSpider) That thread also mentions a a whole family (or large part thereof that are on WrongPlanet.)
I hope you enjoy it here.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... ht=#842449