Aspergers Report for college-Help please

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I am doing a report on Asperger Syndrome for college and have to interview someone with Aspergers so it would be really helpful if you could answer questions relating to having Aspergers.I can't write about myself with AS due to the report being impersonal.

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1.When were you diagnosed with Aspergers and how did you feel once diagnosed?

2.Tell me how you cope with dealing with AS?

3.What would you say your strengths and challenges are with having AS?

4.Do you see having Aspergers Syndrome as a positive or negative and explain your reasons why?

5.Do you find it easy or hard to maintain friends and how?

6.Is it best to tell friends that you have AS and explain why you should or shouldn't tell them?

7.Do you know any charities or support groups that help people with Aspergers and if so who are they? and how do they help?

8.Do you think more people understand what AS is and if not why do you think that is?

1.When were you diagnosed with Aspergers and how did you feel once diagnosed?
I am self diagnose. I felt relieved after coming across literature related to asperger because then i realised that someone could understand me
they could assimilate how my brain functioned

2.Tell me how you cope with dealing with AS?
I cant cope i feel despair, there is no support here in india, no one is ready to help me the only support is wrongplanet

3.What would you say your strengths and challenges are with having AS?
strength - intelligence
challenge- social

4.Do you see having Aspergers Syndrome as a positive or negative and explain your reasons why?
negative. because of acute loneliness, weirdness, dyspraxia and total confusion socially.

5.Do you find it easy or hard to maintain friends and how?
hard. earlier i would just babble anything with them then they ran away
now i am extra careful and feel what should i talk because everything i do or say
ends up bad.

6.Is it best to tell friends that you have AS and explain why you should or shouldn't tell them?
No. They will distance themself since society judges people. Its better to have friendship with someone
who is just like you

7.Do you know any charities or support groups that help people with Aspergers and if so who are they? and how do they help?
In indian none

8.Do you think more people understand what AS is and if not why do you think that is?
In india barely people know about psychology because of lack of understanding of subjects

1.When were you diagnosed with Aspergers and how did you feel once diagnosed? Relieved that i wasn;t crazy or completely alone.

2.Tell me how you cope with dealing with AS? "Coping" is "dealing with"... but... I can only be the best me that I can be and I don't worry about what others think.

3.What would you say your strengths and challenges are with having AS? Strengths: great memory, artisitc creativity, sensitivity. Challenges: High level of stress, poor sleep, and inability to engage easily with others.

4.Do you see having Aspergers Syndrome as a positive or negative and explain your reasons why? ^Both, for the above reasons^

5.Do you find it easy or hard to maintain friends and how? And why? Yes, because I really don;t know what to do with friends. I have trouble understanding what to invite them to do and what to discuss wioth them.

6.Is it best to tell friends that you have AS and explain why you should or shouldn't tell them? I sually do, because I wuold rather do that than to have people think I am just weird, or incompetent.

7.Do you know any charities or support groups that help people with Aspergers and if so who are they? and how do they help? No and I have no idea.

8.Do you think more people understand what AS is and if not why do you think that is? I don't think people know much at all and that's because people with ASDs aren't being engaged in the public discussions. The press and talk shows interview doctors and parents and educators instead of autistic people.

I discovered AS accidentally a number of years ago while looking at something else, and was surprised at how closely it fit me and explained what was going on with me. In the USA, there is no benefit to diagnosis, and it costs money, so I left it at personal discovery.



As an older person I have developed various coping strategies over the years. (A more specific question would elicit more specific answers.)



I am able to work in a field which tolerates eccentricity more than usual, and I'm really good at what I do so people put up with me because the benefit is worth the drawbacks.



People with AS have strengths and weaknesses like anyone. AS is neither exclusively a positive nor a negative, but has good and bad aspects.



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I think the UK has a more advanced medical system for helping people with AS, from what I've read. Most of the books about AS seem to come from the UK. In the USA, there seems to be a developing support network for children, but nothing for adults (such as job placement help, etc).



I think that unless someone in the USA has a personal connection to someone with AS (child, parent, employee etc) they generally do not know it exists. People in the USA tend usually not to care about anything that doesn't directly affect them.

1.When were you diagnosed with Aspergers and how did you feel once diagnosed?
---- Self-diagnosed (after extensive research and self-analysis). I always knew I was somehow different, this realization just gave it a specific name.

2.Tell me how you cope with dealing with AS?
---- Well, I try to turn the things I dislike into a habit, so that I can do them automatically. I also observe the behaviour of other people and try to imitate it when appropriate. I try to do things that scare me so that I can get used to them (if possible).

3.What would you say your strengths and challenges are with having AS?
---- Strengths include my relatively high intelligence, excellent memory, and ability to go into some details better than other people. My challenge is communication (obviously). It's easy to do online, but a frightening experience in real life.

4.Do you see having Aspergers Syndrome as a positive or negative and explain your reasons why?
---- Both. I am better at certain things and worse at others than other people. I try to make the best of it.

5.Do you find it easy or hard to maintain friends and how?
---- Making new friends is hard because I can hardly bring myself to talk to them, but I find it easy to maintain old friends - they seem to like me.

6.Is it best to tell friends that you have AS and explain why you should or shouldn't tell them?
---- I don't tell them because I am afraid they might start treating me differently. I'd rather have them think I am just a weirdo

7.Do you know any charities or support groups that help people with Aspergers and if so who are they? and how do they help?
---- No. But I don't think I need help.

8.Do you think more people understand what AS is and if not why do you think that is?
---- Not really. Most people are heavily influenced by stereotypes imposed by Hollywood movies (e.g. Rain Man, Mercury Rising). Some peopel are even afraid, as if Asperger's is contagious.


I hope this helps. Good luck with your report. Get an A+

1.When were you diagnosed with Aspergers and how did you feel once diagnosed?
Age 32. I didn't have much of an emotional reaction. There was a little relief as the diagnosis explained so much, but in the grand scheme of things that led up to the diagnosis, it didn't make much of a difference.

2.Tell me how you cope with dealing with AS?
1. to struggle or deal, especially on fairly even terms or with some degree of success (usually followed by with ): I will try to cope with his rudeness.
2.to face and deal with responsibilities, problems, or difficulties, especially successfully or in a calm or adequate manner: After his breakdown he couldn't cope any longer.
I don't think most aspergians would use the word cope. It may seem odd, but most of us don't think that we have to cope. Since we've always been like we are, (at least in my perception) it seems as if the rest of the world is irrational and overly emotional. I don't have to cope with AS.

3.What would you say your strengths and challenges are with having AS?
Dealing with the illogical conclusions that people always draw. The beliefs of others about AS disorders. Ignorance and unwillingness of others to learn how the universe works. Willing ignorance and stupidity in others is my greatest challenge.

4.Do you see having Aspergers Syndrome as a positive or negative and explain your reasons why?
Neither. It just is.

5.Do you find it easy or hard to maintain friends and how?
Absolutely. And I maintain my friendships the same way NTs do. AS individuals are a lot like unix/linux. We are exceptionally user friendly... we're just very picky about who our friends are. Those that are worthy to be in your life will understand. We have fewer friends than most NTs, but those friends are friends of decades... I have 5... all of them have been my friends for more than 16-25 years.

6.Is it best to tell friends that you have AS and explain why you should or shouldn't tell them?
This question is black and white, and the world doesn't function like that. It is something that should be taken on a case by case basis. It all depends on the AS individual, the person you are talking to, the situation, etc. In my case, I have no problem's telling people, but I feel I am different than most.

7.Do you know any charities or support groups that help people with Aspergers and if so who are they? and how do they help?
Not really. What I am doing with my life leaves enough for me to pay my bills and eat. Anything more would be near impossible.

8.Do you think more people understand what AS is and if not why do you think that is?
No. Why is that? Because the average person forms snap opinions and believes urban legends... they refuse to research anything and choose, by their nature, to live by the status quo their brain imposes on them. Go look up the phrase "myths about autism" and see what people believe about it.