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GiantHockeyFan
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08 Apr 2014, 1:19 pm

I have debated this one in my head for a while and honestly don't know if I would have benefited. At the very least, it would have helped to know why I wasn't 'normal' and why I could not make friends and I would have known that there were other people like me in the world. I was once reading a book for parents about raising an Aspie teen and I thought over and over "yeah, I learned THAT years too late!" It was like reading my own autobiography as a teenager.

It's only now I realize WHY I am "shy" and "introverted" and it's because if I acted myself growing up, it usually led to an even quicker rejection from peers. Better just to keep quiet and block out your desire to have close friends than deal with what I believed to be the truth at that time.



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09 Apr 2014, 1:41 pm

Eccles_the_Mighty wrote:
I didn't get my diagnosis until my late 40's and I would have loved to have received a diagnosis earlier. For starters they could have actually DONE SOMETHING about my autism instead of just accepting the fact that I was 'quiet' and then leaving me alone with my books. It would have also guided my career choice, sending me into a job better suited to my talents.


As I sad in a earlier post. I wish I would have known earlier. because I would have been a lot less social paranoid and would have been in a better position to choose a different career. I spent 17 years working as an electrical engineer for the mafia and the only reason I was working for those guys was the fact that it kept social interaction to a absolute minimum. The funny thing is, My clients where just as paranoid as I was(Of course they where paranoid for other reasons.) and when we meet to do business. It was very professional, structured and disciplined. We never did any small talk and as soon as we meet, we got down to business and when business was over, we departed ways. Now that I look back on it. it was one of the most aspie friendly job you could have.