Could you forget?

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If you already know you have AS could you eventually 'forget' that you have it if you stop associating with people and suppourt groups that are on the spectrum? Also if you stopped looking aspergers up on the internet that would have an effect as well. Its just a theory of mine.

this of course though would depend upon how mild your AS is and how much suppourt you need? i am not trying to be mean by suggesting this idea but really if you want to feel optimistic about life and if your AS troubling you trying to push it out of your mind forever could be a way of moving on with your life and feel more positive about things.

Could be hard though cause people with AS tend to have very good memory.

What are you, nine years old?


I was over forty the first time I ever heard the word Asperger, but it hadn't prevented me from having every single behavior listed in the DSM for all those years. I struggled with my autism for decades without knowing such a thing existed, but it didn't make me FORGET all the difficulties I experienced every single day of my life while parents, teachers and bosses told me I was an idiot, and called me rude, selfish, lazy, incompetent, uncooperative, insensitive and every synonym for WEIRD you can think of, just because I didn't think and behave exactly the same way they did. Friend, you can't forget who you are just because you stop using one particular word to describe it. You will be reminded of it every day by people who look at you like you just farted in the elevator, just for being yourself. Wishful thinking and self-help programs do not cure autism.

No. I didn't catch it from other people and neither does their information about it intensify anything about my AS.
In most cases it helps clarify my understanding of it, and it's for that reason I also research it on-line.

It's here to stay, and it always was here. I just didn't have the words to identify or describe it.
And now that I do have the words, I find I need a bigger vocabulary.

Sorry, but that's as ridiculous as my suggesting you might enjoy wearing make-up if only you'd push this idea you have about being male out of your mind.

Only if you have psychosomatically induced asperger's syndrome.

Is this even possible?

I did try to forget a few years ago, it did me no good and some harm.

I am just saying before i discovered i had AS I just went around thinking other people brains were wired the same as mine.

Yeah, I thought the same thing, until presented with enough evidence otherwise.

We can't all be gifted with being 'normal'

The only time I came close to forgetting about it when I was on anti-depressants and away from this forum. But that was only for about 9 months until the pills stopped working.
If you learn to better deal with your problems and are not in a state of stress then you may sometimes feel like you don't have it, however it doesn't mean that you don't but you are just coping a bit better with it.

Being more aware of your symptoms does make you focus on them more and so you seem a bit worse. That probably happened six months after I was diagnosed but I think I've got better control over it. I try not to look at my symptoms in a negative light.

If you want you can deny your AS, go back to being just 'weird' and then tell us if you make any improvements.

Interesting theory. I think once you have been professionally diagnosed with Aspergers its not something you can just 'forget'. You can improve yourself but Aspergers is something that remains with you for your whole life. Yes you could push it out of your mind but that would be very very difficult. Aspergers is apart of my personality, personality is defined as: "the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual". So you suggesting we change our personalities "to feel optimistic about life" and "feel more positive about things.". I'm happy with living with my Aspergers thanks

It went most of my life not knowing I had AS, while I was constantly made aware by others that something was different about me and I could never fit in. I experienced a lot discrimination bullying etc throughout my life never understanding exactly why/how I was different, and never really having a clue why I was treated this way. So far as I was concerned the way I was and the way I did things was perfectly logical to me. I suffered very much throughout my life not understanding the puzzle of why I struggled. I was called many things along the way that I knew weren't true but stick in my thoughts still today.

Since I was recently diagnosed things have changed for me. It was like revelation for me as all the pieces of the puzzle assembled them self with each realisation. My diagnosis gave me a very clear feeling of validation and explanation. I have now learnt even more about myself and have learnt not to beat myself up for being what I am.

Since my diagnosis nothing at about any of my traits has changed apart from feeling validated and realising I am not alone as I discover so many others out there very similar to me. You can't possibly forget or change the way you are and pretend you don't have AS. I did that most of my life and suffered for it.

I went for a few weeks post identification being 'more aspie than ever'.

That went away. My experience was no longer being programmed by my informational input.

I was still about the same as before I'd ever heard of asperger's syndrome.

Pensieve how would you know if i behave weird or not?

Isn't this like the von Neumann/Wigner interpretation of quantum mechanics? (The universe exists because we observe it)

This ^^
I'm in a healthier position by knowing in detail why I do certain things that others don't, and if 'forgetting' about AS means I resort to beating myself up again because I struggle with things that most others don't, because I'm weird, a failure, a loner - well, thanks but no thanks.
Been there, done that, didn't work.