I just got diagnosed....O.O

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hello again WP,
So, a few years ago I met the most wonderful person I could ever hope to know. Soon after meeting him, I learned he had AS. I joined this site for some insight on his disorder and to further my basic understanding (as well as asking many times for advice). Well, for a while I've been very depressed, I've never been able to make friends and never has it been so apperent and painful then then this year at school for me. Crying had become almost a dailey ritual. I couldn't shake the feeling something had to be wrong with me, why couldn't I comunicate with everyone else and avoid peculiar looks. So after a lot of thought, I decided to make an apointment with a diagnostic psycologist. And the docter ended up being the woman who diagnosed my previously mentioned friend, small world. Very soon after we start talking, she asks "Does the term Asperger's syndrome mean anything to you." I neerly fell off my chair. She's 95% sure that's what it is, but I'm going in for testing later in the month to be 100% possitive. I'm still in total shock.

Hi and welcome to the Aspie community, it can be a shock at first.

Once I really understand about Aspergers it totally changed my life around for the better, as at least could understand and be my true self.

Welcome aboard!

I am to speak with a person this Friday. I'll be shocked if I don't get labeled with anything. I've all the symptoms coupled with all the doubt leaving me as confused as I ever was.

Wooooohooooo ! !!

Congratulations ! !!

Forget about shock - you're a winner!

And... now you can look on your past with new eyes and will feel good because you understand yourself.

Ok... this is the reaction of someone entirely comfortable being an aspie but believe me, most people here would rather be aspie than NT.

Welcome!
You'll probably be confused for ages.
My mom was the one to finally insist I had it and get me diagnosed when I was 21. As soon as she had a diagnosis, she started saying that I didn't really have it at all, just 'traits' I got REALLY confused then. Had to get the lady who diagnosed me finally to talk to her.
It's really annoying being uncertain, but just relax and Welcome. Remember nothing has really changed.

Congratulations!! !

Welcome to the sub-culture!

My tip - research it. That's what I did, and the whole time (and still), I just kept saying to myself, "Woah! That's me!! !"

Hello,
Congratulations. Have fun with it.

My experience was very much like Asplanet's. First shock, then acceptance, then almost euphoria with some regrets that I didn't find out earlier.

At the moment I'm thinking a lot about the misunderstanding that occurs between the culture of AS and the culture of NTs and how bridges can be built.

welcome to the club