Pros and cons to diagnosis/medication as an adult?

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Not very many have touched the other part of the question-benefit/con of getting adult diagnosis. I've been thinking about this, and am satisfied at knowing about AS to the degree that I am reasonably sure that it's a part of me. However, there's a part of me that wants it to be "official." Why, you may ask? People don't generally like labels, I'm no different, but knowing that an official diagnosis carries the weight of a well trained professional makes me feel a little more peaceful with my "suspicions."

Does anyone have a take on this specific issue here? Am wondering what the "threshold" is to be officially diagnosed. I've no outstanding sensory problems (other than the fact that I occasionally duck out if the "eating noise" becomes too disgusting), and am handling life fine IMO. There are 3 issues that I've been stymied by, personal/social interaction, frustration problems (work, and people issues), and driving. The last is sort of a specific one, but it is actually more than driving-getting the "courage" and "motivation" to drive, really is the problem, and it extends to more than just driving... So my question is, without any obvious "physical" problems associated with AS, is it a diagnosis worth pursuing? Many of the "habits" associated with AS, I've had over the years, some have disappeared, and many are there to a lesser degree, and to be honest, knowing about AS in the first place has given me an "edge" of sorts, I feel "freer" than I did before, something like being free of many of the AS problems in the first place. Examples being, me practicing my nervous habits less (finger chewing) and being able to socialize better. Kinda funny how that works, hope you guys have some thoughts regarding diagnosis in adults.

There is no treatment for being a Computer Programer.

She married a Mac OSX for better or worse, now she wants Windows?

I am 61, and getting good at being me took telling other people that they were wrong, and I do not exist to change to make them happy, but I am ready to change them.

Perhaps if your wife was more of a Vegas Showgirl, a pleasure doll. Maybe she could wear a leather jacket, and drive a truck. If she had two jobs she would not have time to bother you. See where changing people leads.

"He who whittles himself away to please others, soon finds he has nothing left."

Just having one identity is hard enough, and that comes natural.

Trying to be something you are not, is an early trip through a meaningless hell.

I would like you better if you were on drugs?

Light Hell! Eye contact, one on one social, it is there, and for life.

Too bad about the child support. Put you money where she cannot find it, stash cash, no records, prepare for divorce. Take a minium wage job.

She has been reading up on Cassandrea Syndrome, now she needs to get you Dxed as grounds for divorce. He has a mental illness is on drugs.

Hire some sleazy lowlifes to go knock on the door, get pictures, at the trial show she was buying drugs. being unfaithful, a Snow Queen.

There is no treatment or medication for Autism.

Perhaps your wife should take Haldol, it stops thinking. You mention she was a pillhead before.

The best Divorce plan is get poor first, then get minimal child support. Take a low paying but fun job.

Dont marry the next one till the children are eighteen.

You do not want to be paying for her and her NT boyfriend living in comfort.

After the Court makes it final, you can go back to being a programer.

You were someone's starter home, but you can start over.

We do not change, we cannot change, and this is war. Win.

Yeah exactly. Sure some medications can change you fairly radically and in the wrong way and sometimes people will remark about how they dilike the change. Although I must admit nw I rarely listen to alot of people who complain that I change, for instance alot of the time when someone says 'Oh, I don't like you on Medication, you're different... You're less fun.' when the week before they were complaining about how I won't shut-it, and just generally sh it behaviour.
Even yesterday I got a phone call asking me why it was that I was so quiet when I went into Norwich the other day (it was with this girl), and then I said it was probably the Concerta, although she had pis sed me off, and she complained that I shouldn't have taken it that day so that I could had talked lots to her, which pis ses me off alot as she was saying about how she didn't want to go out with me before as she considered me 'childish' and 'irresponsible'. That day bear in mind I still retained my 'quirks', I had spent time talking about this 'Telecran' (french 'Etch a Sketch') nd other stuff, and she still would ask me to be quiet because i was being ridiculous (can't remember what about), and also she would treat me like a bit of kid saying 'Don't wander off Sam!' and if I did then she'd be like... so on and on and blah the idea is what you are getting.
At work I get benefits from my medication, alot of the time I find it easier to be more 'with it' and less 'in my own head', and consequently my boss in the past two weeks since taking it again has givn me mre responsibilities, and I get to prep food, and I find it easier to keep up, and on thursday the Concerta had worn off and I felkt this huge 'slump' in my focus, and boss was wondering why it was that I wasn't working as well as I had done before then I told him it was because it was 14 hours since I took my medication and he said i should post pone taking it until 12 if it meant that my work was substantilly improved.
If its my family then I listen, because although they don't always get it right they're more important.

Actually the concerta seems to have stopped working I was really distractable yesterday, felt like s**t got drunk havn;'t taken it today.
f**k DAT (SAID IN AN IRISH ACCENT)