Were you offended when you were diagnosed with Asperger?

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Yep, same here. A sense of relief.

I was not offended when I was officially diagnosed (as an adult) with Asperger's (with the possibility of HFA). In fact, I was happy. I had known for a long time that I was eccentric and that something was quite different about me than with most people I knew. Now I knew why. I was relieved. I walked out of the clinic with the thought, "My journey has just begun."

I am envious of you knowing so young what was wrong with you. I spent most of childhood thinking I was crazy and was always worried when I saw school psychologists that they were going to have me locked away forever.

Should one be offended if one is diagnosed with high blood pressure?

ruveyn

No, but I'd be offended if someone called me an NT

Yes. I thought that having a form of autism meant that I was mentally ret*d. But then I read that people with Asperger's usually have average to above average intelligence, and I felt a lot better.

Same here.

Not one bit.

My first thought was "why do they all have so ugly names".

Beyond that, I didn't really care. If putting a label on me would make them leave me alone, great, but it had nothing to do with me.

I was very upset at first, because in my family I had always been known as the "brainy one". My relatives never really knew what to think of me, because I was so socially awkward. But I always got the best grades, graduated second in my high school class, got into a good college, etc...Everyone always told me that I would be able to do anything I ever wanted when I grew up because of how smart I was. Funny thing is though, I am currently living with my parents, afraid to drive, no close friends, terrified by the prospect of going on a job interview...while all of my average cousins are working, dating, living on their own, etc...My brain was essentially the only thing I had my entire life, and having to accept that it didn't work right was difficult. It was so awkward to think of myself as mentally disabled, because literally since I was born everyone had made me think that I was the exact opposite. But it got to a point that I could no longer deny that I had trouble doing things.