environment and asperger syndrome

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I believe that the environment can make a person's AS better or worse. When I was younger I had few opportunities to socialise which is one reason why I found school difficult. There were a few reasons why I was alienated in school(class, culture,ethinicity,religion,personality, family background, parents, region of the country, pressure from school and studies). At university it was much better, and after university it improved better. My communication has improved after university. I suffer from anxiety and depression but recently I have learned to deal with it better. I feel that my AS is mainly just a confidence thing. If I am happy and confident, and in the environment I can be 100% normal. Everyone thinks , now I am normal or highly normal.

Yes, definitely. In my own little world of home with no disruptions in my outer world, I am okay. It's the rest of the world and functioning within its parameters that is the problem. I have built so many accommodations into my world that my husband often doesn't realise that they are accommodations. He just lives by the axiom of "that's the way she is" and gets on about it. He doesn't always realise that after 7 years, I've tricked him into living by my accommodations. LOL.

Hee, hee, hee,... I've often thought it's a wife's job to train her husband...