AS Co-morbid's how they also have an impact on us!! !

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AS Co-morbid's, associated conditions how they also have an impact on us!

As a child crushed until broken, all that was needed was understanding, support and acceptance. Aspergers sensory wise the world often too much, Dyspraxia the most clumsy person in every room, Dyslexia what doesn't jumble, ADHD my mind continually on full power with no off switch, bipolar extremity of mood who knows where that will take me next!

But really I have others differences apart from the small description above and I feel simply often alienated by a world that lacks real knowledge, to me education is the key...I do feel if we are loved and embraced for who we are as individuals as children, what ever our differences I feel would be that bit easier to simply be in this world, where I guess there will always be ignorance.... and as I find with my own children for every little I give, I get flooded with love, growth and grow as an individual myself.

I thought long and hard about should I ever wear any of my labels on the outsuide so to speak, as they do not define who I am as an individual and only recently started to not care about what others think, of course my friends advised not to mention Aspergers, bipolar etc... "you will be dismissed as crazy?" but I know I am far from that and those that know me, matter know, the ignorant ones can choose to listen or not.... anyway many judge me already simply because. I am different and I feel at my age I need to speak out, because I so do not want the next generation of children ashamed of any of their differences and no one is a label but a combination of factors...

But to be honest these days if anyone has a problem with my differences, I let it be their problem and not mine!

how do you do that? is it something spoken and/or felt?

At my age I am simply confidant enough not to let others get to me, confident enough to be able to explain if need be and so most of the time I simply am, I guess for me its been a long process and its taken time but now I understand myself I can fully accept, allow and so just am... but like everyone I have days where I do try and avoid the ignorant ones...

I...wash my hands a lot and step over cracks on the sidewalk.

O, and if someone coughs/sneezes, I take the scenic route around them.

I also worry a lot (I mean, a lot a lot, not just a lot, but obsessive a lot).

Co-existing with my co-morbids topic

CAPD and dyspraxia are the two conditions I could do without, since I am slower because of them, in processing environmental stimuli and gross motor control.