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14 Jan 2014, 1:15 pm

LucySnowe wrote:
I agree with you to a point--having the diagnosis for me has served as a jumping-off place for understanding myself better, but it hasn't significantly improved my relationships with other people, nor has it necessarily made them understand me more. Despite knowing myself better, I find sometimes that I wallow in my diagnosis--I allow it to become me, if that makes sense.


I've been re-reading this thread for the purposes of making some constructive suggestions for someone who is in a similar position now to the one I was in when I started the conversation.

I have a thought on this. I think on many ways, it is me. I do not "have Asperger syndrome" in the sense of "having the flu", as something that is separate from me and that will or might go away, or that I contracted separately from being me. It is part of who I am - I am an Aspie, or I am autistic, depending on your definitions.

What that does do, and which can be positive, is enable me to self-advocate (when I'm not locked up in my den in fear of the allistics or curled up in a ball hating myself and the rest of the damned universe...).