Who is/has been HAPPY to hear you had AS?

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I think my dad was.


He was happy, he said "Don't worry, you're not crazy in the coconut!" He asked what the doctor said about me when I went to the adolescent clinic for the first time and I mentioned AS and he said, "Didn't Einstein have that?" He seemed relieved that it was only that; now maybe my mom would finally shut up about what might be wrong with me! He had this "Oh, well that's good!" attitude.

I'm sure my whole family was happy when I was diagnosed because it explained my behavior and my problems and why I was the way I was and why they had to do things different for me and why I needed some different rules and diciplin (sp).

I was happy. Prior to knowing what was wrong with me, I felt like the only human being on the planet that had this experience. I felt very alone and very broken. Now, with everything in perspective, I feel okay. I function better. I know my limitations and my abilities and work within that frame. It was definitely a huge positive for me.

My family was relieved too. What my mother felt were very hurtful comments over the years (I call them honesty, and she struggles with reality anyhow) suddenly made sense. I simply didn't have the capability to filter my comments. I still remember the time she slapped me in the mouth in the middle of a store and shattered my front tooth. I was totally and utterly in shock as to why, and more in shock when I realized I had bits of teeth in my mouth

I was.

At last I had an explanation for what has been going on all those years.

Ed Almos

At last I had an explanation for what has been going on all those years.


Same here!

Give your Dad a big hug from me (and I guess many of us). He's really cool.

my mom was all "well ive always knew you were different even when you were little"

my stepdad thinks its a fake disorder and used some four letter words describing me.

my real dad thought i was gonna turn out ret*d because of the fetal distress i was in. here was what he said

"yeah man i thought you were gonna turn out ret*d"

My parents were happy wen i was diagnoised wid AS cos da doctors said i could have been deaf cos i was without speech n me parents would have had 2 learn sign lanuage includin meself but once me speech came it was all gud.

A lot of the case managers in high school thought it was cool that I have aspergers.

When I told my best friend that I have aspergers he said "so does my brother". What are the chances?

I was happy to discover AS, for it led me to understand that there are others out there who share some similarities in, uh, mental peculiarities. For most of my life, I'd settled on the idea that I was entirely different from everyone else, not human, utterly unique.

I'm still utterly unique; but folks with AS are rather closer to what I am like mentally than the majority of so-called "neurotypical" folks out there which is somewhat reassuring. That's what I'm doing here after all.

Ana, has your diagnosis been changed to PDD?

Good fortune,

- Icarus Tries to Relate

My diagnosis may be changed to PDD... I mean, I'll always have the AS diagnosis from when I was 14... they don't delete old stuff from another city off the records; why would the people here bother to contact them? But my current shrink seems to think I'm more PDD than AS... perhaps because I don't have as many autistic tendencies as is required for an AS diagnosis. I'm so glad someone finally understands me; I may have some very extreme autistic traits, like social anxiety, but I don't have a lot of them at all. I'll probably get diagnosed with PDD. And I think my AS diagnosis might be already deleted, as it was 5 years since I got diagnosed and don't they delete people's records after 5 years of not seeing the person? Or is it 10?


I'll give my dad a hug from you if I talk to him again.


Believe me, he's made up for that good attitude since then.

My mother said that she was relieved as it explaines why "I am the way I am".

I recall my aunty saying "Oh ok...wow, that sure explains your hate for patterns when you were six".

As for the rest of my mothers side of the family...I can't remember what they said, but I know that they don't think any more or less of me because of it which is great.

I wont even attempt to tell my father as he will never understand. I don't think he would have even heard of AS before.

I am really happy to have discovered that a thing like AS exists. It's a revelation that is able to explain a lot of stuff to me. I feel utterly unique, just like Icarus_Falling but in the same time just like he, I feel much closer to people like those gathered on Wrong Planet than to those who surround me in everyday life, like my family's members, other students or people seen by me on the streets.

My family in contrast to yours, Brittany, having been informed, would start perceive me as someone worse than themselves My kinsmen (especially the older generation) are simple minded people who don't have too much education and they have never even heard about AS.

My mother was happy when the word aspergers came up just because there was a clear explanation as to why i am who i am.