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Hi all,

I'm new to this forum, so I thought I'd introduce myself.

For a long time I've suspected that something was "not quite right" with me, but only recently was I able to peg down what it could possibly be. This was followed by a diagnosis of HFA.

I'm currently trying to give this diagnosis a place in my head, and determining what to do with it, if anything.

Greetings! If you come to any conclusions, I'd love to hear them. I've been diagnosed AS for about a year, and I'm still struggling with what to make of it. I don't question that it's accurate - I knew it before the diagnosis - but now that it's official, I guess I'm still obsessing over how it relates to everything.

It's kinda liberating to finally know what it is that made you feel so different all this time, don't you agree?

I'm 26 years old. That's a long time going with a "strange feeling" but not knowing what it is.

That alone, knowing what it is, is worth something, in my opinion.

Hi sjamaan

Great to see aboard Wrong Planet, fellow-traveler sjamaan.

Auties rock as much as aspies. That's saying a lot. Welcome 2 wp.

Yeay! Protest hero is back!

And welcome to the original poster!

Well, yes, it is liberating on many levels. Wonderful to know that I'm not the only person who wrestles with the issues I've been made to feel like a loser for all my life - and I'd never heard of AS or HFA until 45, Dx'd @ 49. It's a tremendous relief to understand that things that had always seemed like personal defects are actually an atypical brain function that's not confined to me alone.

On the other hand, as it's sunk in, there's been a strange realization that a lot of attitudes and behaviors that I always thought were eclectic personal choices, are really just indicators to those around me that there is something visibly 'wrong with that guy.' Of course, at my age I accepted long ago that I wasn't going to change, but it was one thing to believe that was my own proud choice - something else to realize that I couldn't change if I wanted to.

To WrongPlanet!! !