Embarrassed or ashamed about having AS?

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I'm not embarrassed about it in general, but I do get embarrassed when she tells doctors, and when I first went to the orthodontist she put it on our forms, and he though I had Aspergailious or hwever you spell it. some sort of mold.

I dont want most people in my life to know, but I think sometimes I consider it a blessing, then othertimes when I wanna fit in a curse.

Someday I may open up, ive already done so for my best friends and boss at work, they seemed ccool with it, tho im afriad ill be isolated or treated like im stupid by others, so i dont bother, just beinging it up is kinda tough anyways, why bother?

I just get on wid it.

I am ashamed of some of the dumb things I do, and I don't want to let it be known at work that I have a seizure disorder, but I'm not ashamed of the AS itself.

I don't get embarrassed or ashamed over something I have no [obvious] choice in.

I have searched for answers to the problems I face everyday and AS seems to fit in a way other illnesses have not. I was worried that I was schizophrenic because I have a lot of symptoms particular social difficulties. So discovering I have Asperger's is something of a relief. My apologies to anyone who suffers from schizophrenia but it sounds very scary indeed. I have not been diagnosed yet but I'm pretty sure I have AS. I'm seeing a specialist on Saturday for an assessment. I don't really feel bad about having AS but I will wait until I'm officially diagnosed before I tell anyone except my mum. I will probably tell my brothers after I get diagnosed.

Caramateo-- thanks. And I am an adult, but these things that happen to you when you're a kid stay with you.


Mightyzebra: What made it even worse was that I didn't believe I had AS, and still don't know if I truly do. I did have obsessions, and stimmed and that, but I wasn't mindblind like that, without social anxiety, that part (and that's the biggest part of AS) was due to social anxiety. The fact that my mother thought I was mindblind because I had all the other symptoms-- stimming, obsessions, etc. really killed me.


Corroonb-- It is an illness for some people, but for others it isn't. It depends on the kind of As the person has; a lot of the time it's a condition rather than an illness.

i can relate to all of this. i did not know about it till i was 15 but before then i was labelled with a whole bunch of other things and i hated it cos it made me feel like i was unworthy and wrong.
when they told me i had aspergers i thought "ok so thats what the problem is"
i do feel bad about it sometimes but mostly i just get on with things.

I'm embarrassed about it. I don't want anybody to find out.

I am a little embarrased about it, especially because it makes me feel so helpless at times.

Well, if I had been told I had AS, I would have thought *******WOW*******! I'm AUTISTIC? NO WAY! THEN, I probably would have thought NEAT! There is a REASON! There are OTHERS! I have a way to EXPLAIN!

Ever since I found out about AS, I was upset that POLITICS kept it a secret for so long, so I couldn't be diagnosed.