It's Official

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I have been officially diagnosed today, what do i do now i feel bewildered.

PS.

When i tried to change my profile to DIAGNOSED it had already been done, i think the administrators should look into this.

Hi, yes it must feel peculiar to have it official, weird relief.

The feeling is strange, isn't it? Getting put on the SEN list is also quite a shocker too.

What is the SEN list?(I am American)

I am going through the same thing....Now what, feeling.Inspite of your feelings that it "fits",Do you question if maybe they made a mistake?Now I want to find more information from my social worker from when I was younger and see if they noticed "anything"

Are you going to continue seeing the person that DX you for further counseling?

SEN is special educational needs

cool

The social worker first mentioned it to us in June 2005 and we researched the possibility for our son. You know, thinking back, there are a lot of negative connotations with that dx. Violent, tantruming, out-of-control - NOT what we wanted for our child.

I spent the summer researching it and thought we were okay with it. But when the psych backed us up in November, it was ............

Hey, I'm supposed to be NT and I can't describe the way I felt.

It's been a year and it's been fine and all, we're dealing and he's thriving, but when our fears were confirmed - wow! And, yes, it was a fear at the time.

Now we know it is not a thing to fear, but a new challenge to reach a wonderful, caring, emotional, kind and turbulent child. We love and cherish him even more now that we know HOW.

It's not cancer - it will open some doors, but it takes some getting used to.

The mixture of Asperger's and anorexia is worse though. Recovery from anorexia is 500 times harder with Asperger's.