How well does your parents know bout your AS

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My mom is highly knowledable about it and is helpful. My dad thinks I'm incredibly special and can't function normally.

My mother probaly knows more than I do, heh

My parents know about it, but seem to forget it when I am annoying them, and they get really mad at me because of some aspie stuff, like not liking how new clothes they buy me feel and not wearing them except when forced to.

Mine have no clue how mildly I'm affected - they don't see that I act 100% NT and only look at the diagnosis. They don't listen to me when I tell them I truly believe I'm not on the spectrum; they just say my denial is an AS trait too. They have a good understanding of AS in general, but they don't have a good understanding that I am not one of the people affected by it.

my mom knows more about it than my dad

My dad acts like it's no big deal and my mom on the other hand, I'll just say I know more about it than she does and she obviously read little part of it when I was diagnosed and got an insight about it. She believes lot of aspies are horrible people and lot of them are selfish people and don't care if they hurt someone and she acts like most of us are sociopaths. I am going by what she has said about it and she makes it sound like we are all horrible people and self centered and don't care about people. Also she assumes things that I do that are different is part of AS or guesses that it is.

I Dont Know..
They just wont talk about it.
I remember when i was about 8 and they bought me to a phsyciatrist (sorry if misspelled)
about autism. So they definitely know about something.

I think both of me and my parents denied the fact for YEARS, they just want to have a 'normal' kid. So we never talked about it.

I figured out i'm an aspie by myself.

Wait.. This is an aspie trait??
Isnt it normal? NTs do that too right?
I have no clue o_o

My mom knows about it is reasonable. My dad yells and sends me into meltdowns if I fail an assignment at school or forget to do the laundry.

I feel that my mom is pretty knowledgeable about it, and spent a lot of time looking through things and applying them to me before she approached me about it. She understands differences between boys and girls with the syndrome, and spent a lot of time explaining the characteristics of Asperger's to me before actually saying what it was.

I think she's pretty sure I have it, but I'm not thoroughly convinced, and the fact that she knows so much about it (or so I assume) is annoying and makes me nervous. She's been ascribing all my habits and quirks to AS--like the way I highlight text on the computer while I'm reading it as a compulsive habit o_o-and every time I do something I feel like she's looking at me and thinking inwardly "Oh, she's such an aspie." Because I do show a lot of aspie characteristics, but I think I lack the basic mindset. But she's so knowledgeable and knows so much about me that she has to be right, of course.

Same here

My parents have absolutely no idea that I think I have AS. I'm kind of afraid to tell them. My ever-cynical father will say "What?! You don't have that! You're just trying to get some weird diagnosis so you can get special treatment at college!" I find that rather insulting. I know that's what he'd say because he said it when I brought up the possibility of auditory processing disorder. I haven't mentioned APD since.

My mother, on the other hand, would probably say something along the lines of "If you had anything like that, it would have been diagnosed years ago." She knows a little bit about AS because her friend's son has it, but I don't think she realizes that the symptoms often manifest themselves differently in girls than in boys, and that many girls go undiagnosed well into adulthood.

I've been to a few pschologists, but none of them have brought up AS. So far, I've been labled with depression, social anxiety, and "your health problems [[diabetes, asthma, and celiac disease]] have made you very self-involved."

Oh well. I'm counting on the probability that I'll have a meltdown within the first few weeks of college and I'll be sent to see a neurologist.

my dad is an aspie too, but he has never really got the interest of actually getting lots of info about the theme.
my mom has a vague info, she just kinda read a leaflet my shrink gave her....

Both my parents know very well about it. ^^ And they try to understand me as much as possible. Sometimes they can get frustrated with me maybe when I get stubborn all of a sudden and I don't tell them certain things that are important, but they actually are very fair about it. They don't restrict me and they don't think like, "Oh she can't do this because she has this disability."

They are not perfect by any means, my parents are very kind and fair. ^^ Not to brag or anything. Hehe

Maybe if you guys tried to talk with your parents or have a consoler to back you up, you can settle some things with your parents. Try to explain to them the best way you can about why you feel a certain way and what they do that makes you upset, angry, etc. It will be hard at first, but if you do it often, it will come easier.

Same here, not much positive encouragement going on there. When I told my mom about it she didn't answer back for about an hour, and when she did she was on a different subject. It didn't sadden it, it more angered because it's like "I'm telling my concerns like every other kid does easily".



I was with a "Social Worker" all through elementary school, didn't really help... But yeah I basically relate to what you're talking about too.

My Mums vaguely but I don't live with her. My psychiatrist told her but I live with my grandparents and they scoffed. Nana even had in me tears saying how tell a teacher that and they'll laugh etc. I have and they didn't. My grandparents believe I have regular autism and if I did I'd be 10 times worse off most likely. So Mums vaguely but I voted not at all cus I live with my grandparents.