Do you deny your ASD?

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I know a lot of people on the spectrum like to tell people about their diagnosis, but there are some people out there who never tell anybody about their disability. Is there any other Aspies who deny....besides me?

There is a difference between not mentioning it and denying it.

I most of the time don't mention it, I never deny it but I do toy with people when they start about the subject concering me.

Autism in general is very misunderstood and worse of all the unsaid assumption people make are the worse in my experiences.

So not telling anyone about your ASD is denial? I guess I am in denial then. I don't ever tell anyone for personal reasons. One of the reasons is I don't want it to define me and have people define me by it and make assumptions about me like what I can't do and acting like I am worse than I really am. Also I am afraid they'd think I am using it as an excuse.

Okay I guess when you're mild you don't really need to tell people unless when it comes to school or relationships or friends or any other situations. Because you will need understanding. But it's up to them if they want to or not. If they don't want to be seen as rude or stupid or uncaring etc. then they should tell people. If they don't really care and think they don't need a label to be understood and people should be smart enough to understand them and accept them for way they are without needing to hear a label, then they don't tell.

I tell everyone because I want people to see that Autism can have a "different" face than the one that is typically portrayed. It also allows me to advocate for myself at work and other places where I may need some special help or consideration. WIN/WIN for me to be totally open so far.

Admitting that you have ASD at work is like admitting that you deserve to get fired. Bosses think that people with ASD are in their own little world and therefore they are a danger to themselves and others because they are not attentive to safety hazards at work. Bosses that I know brag that they would get rid of anyone who they think is mentally ill and the way they get away with it is to find another reason to fire someone that has nothing to do with the mental illness.

Admitting that you have ASD at work is like admitting that you deserve to get fired. Bosses think that people with ASD are in their own little world and therefore they are a danger to themselves and others because they are not attentive to safety hazards at work. Bosses that I know brag that they would get rid of anyone who they think is mentally ill and the way they get away with it is to find another reason to fire someone that has nothing to do with the mental illness.

When I got to know that I had a diagnosis I simply just couldn´t believe it and I denied to believe it for long. But I guess since I´ve gotten the diagnosis I must have it. I am also angry with my parents because they have known I had the diagnosis since I was 17 and they told me it when I was 24.

I don't deny it.

I have yet to get an official diagnosis, if I was diagnosed I would deny it. I'm not ashamed, I just understand that having a mental varience makes me a "retart","freak", or "crazy". I want to be judged by my own merits, and not have my actions determined as being a fatalist inevitability.

I doubt mine, despite two independent diagnosis... so I do not volunteer it unless directly queried.

I refuse to believe that I have any ASD nowadays but I was definitely a diagnosed as a child.

Since all my life, I've been fighting to get to where I am today where it became unnoticeable to the point I would refer to myself as a neurotypical, although personally I don't seem to like that term very much.

Although there are still some noticeable traits in me which isn't so major but I can gladly say that there's nothing wrong with me, I'm just a human being living an extraordinary lovely life (in some ways).

I don't deny but I found it's rather pointless to tell anybody as it doesn't change the horrid way people judge and treat me.

My family is very ignorant about it. They won't even let me bring up the subject of Asperger's in their presence w/o shutting me down.

I don't deny it. I don't exactly tell people that I have it either. On the rare occasion that it comes up I say "I probably have Asperger's." and if people ask for more information (also rare) I tell them that I am almost sort of diagnosed with it but didn't have the money, so don't have anything official; just the opinion of a head shrinker and her assistant. Umm...the last time I really said anything was about a year ago. A student in one of my classes said "You remind me a lot of my cousin. He's autistic and really into dinosaurs too. And really smart. Talks about a lot of the stuff you talk about. You just talk a lot better. I bet you're autistic or something close." and I just kind of stared at her for a while and was like "Uhh...yeah. I have Asperger's." and she said "What's that?" and I was like "High functioning autism without the speech delay." and the girl sitting in front of me turned around and said "That explains a LOT.".

Hmm...I think I may have digressed. No, I don't deny it.

I once said that I can't be autistic because I could talk, so the doc must have been wrong, and it was just temporary deafness from an ear infection. Autism is one of those things that's supposed to be really funny when it's happening to someone else. There's no way I would ever even meet someone autistic, let alone happen to be one, because it's what, like 1 in 10000 people or so? What are the odds of that?

Nowadays I'm very aware that I'm very obviously different from the norm and I prefer to think of myself as autistic rather than, say, schizophrenic.

I usually tell people that I know well at some point................