What now?

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I'm going to write this over a few posts hope thats ok


Apparently today is the first day of the rest of my life, and i want to live it to the fullest i can.

Yesterday was the end of my (in total) 14 year battle for diagnosis, marked with my mother having to go through DISCO with the psychiatrist, i didn't attend this appointment but a message was relayed to me confirming my self diagnosis and asserting that the report would be Aspergers not ASD.

I have to say that after all my trepidation and fears in the months leading up to my assessment the reality proved to be manageable, this was only because of the exceptional skills of the Doctor, who is an absolute credit to her profession.

I'm not saying the process was easy; it wasn't, it was fairly traumatic to be honest, i was so chaotic (ADHD went nuts) that the structure of the interview was abandoned and the required data was extrapolated through school reports and conversation over two two hour sessions (usually 2 x 1 hour plus DISCO for parent)

I'm not too sure whether she had ever encountered someone like me, i've always known i was different and sought the answers as to why so my knowledge of self and the psyche is a bit of an aspie 'thing' for me, plus having a name for 'it' in 2001 has helped me mitigate and attempt to find what works and what doesn't, which leads me to believe that us older feral aspies are possibly a good source of information for the medical profession, after all who knows more about this subject and its challenges at all stages of life than a raw sample? Anywaaay......

So, after 14 years ive been diagnosed, there is no path of acceptance for me, i've always known, i am what i am.