Joe90 wrote:
That's why I don't like telling people I have Asperger's. All this scary stuff about us being murderers is making people look at Aspies in a totally different light, and I don't want people to think that I might lash out and murder them. That is why I do not want to ever tell my boyfriend about it. I know he will find out I have something because of my quirks, but I could just tie a bunch of other disorders together, like ADHD coupled with anxiety disorder or post traumatic stress disorder or anything like that. But I am never, ever, ever disclosing Asperger's.
Right, now I'm going to go to my freezer where my collection of decapitated human heads are kept...
I wouldn't go so far as to not tell your boyfriend about it. This is the same kind of inaccurate information and stigma that happens to all sorts of psychiatric disorders, not just ASD. Besides, your boyfriend needs to know about it and I'm guessing that you would want to be able to trust him. What I would do is tell him but also give him some resources on AS that you can trust.