It's official...

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... I'm mental

I had my assessment yesterday which should have taken 3.5 hours and within an hour and a half the nice lady said I definitely had Aspergers. I'll receive a full report in a couple of weeks along with an abbreviated report that I can show to my employer. It was wonderful to just talk to someone about my life and it left me completely drained, although a flat tyre on the way home and spending this morning with 30 kids, teaching them to climb (oh, the noise!), getting the tyre fixed and then shopping didn't help. I feel exhausted but in a good way. I'm now going to fall asleep whilst watching Netflix with my headphones on. Bliss!

Obviously, excuse the "mental" joke, it was not meant to offend. Hey, I call my disabled wife "my little raspberry" (rhyming slang) and she loves it

Does berry rhyme with crazy?

I'm mental, and physical, and emotional lol

You have a good sense of humor.

I'm glad you folks have a nice thing going.

I hope you don't rue your life.

Rhyming slang was a clever creation of the Cockneys.

From the way I read your post , you seem stoked and I feel that I should congratulate you but that seems so wrong.

liveandrew,

It is good that you got an assessment. It will help you a lot. It is good that the person in charge of your assessment was somebody you could talk to. I am reluctant to get an assessment because I fear that I would fall into the clutches of another person who wants to limit my progress or take away all the gains I've made over the past couple of years, which have been large ones. The last time I underwent an assessment (in college), the tester completely destroyed all hope I ever had of living any kind of life. Asperger's was unknown here in the 1980s, so I was left with no answers and no hope.

I am so glad that wasn't your experience.

@Liveandrew , If you dont mind me asking , I've got a few questions.

Was it an NHS assesment , if so , how long did you have to wait and which borough were you tested ?

To be fair and objective, Asperger's wasn't a formal diagnosis given in the 1980s. Since I did well in school and didn't have any specific learning disabilities, people thought I was just weird and a little too obsessed with my favorite topics. This person was in charge of the Disabled Student Services. What an irony! It's for the best, though, that I didn't get any kind of formal diagnosis. I was allowed to get through my college education without being given all kinds of modifications that would have made me feel like an idiot. I proved I could do it the regular way, even though it took a lot out of me and my joy of accomplishment was nonexistent.

Today, I am so much happier. I still prize knowledge, but I am now adding social knowledge and doing things I never thought I could. I will just continue to work on things and be my own therapist, so to speak. I have used my interest in Denis Istomin very much to my benefit. Seeing what he went through to succeed inspires me every day to become better. My problems seem small in comparison to having overcome a car accident in Uzbekistan! If his mother had listened to the doctors, he would be dead today, not playing tennis on the ATP tour.