I Told My Brother (Realizing Aspie-dom, etc)

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I finally admitted to my brother that I think I'm an aspie. He responded by saying that he has had such suspicions for awhile (he was a psych major, maybe he heard about it that way). The funny thing is that I was first alerted to asperger's syndrome by a coworker whose young son was showing signs of autism (more severe than standard asperger's) . The coworker has suspected for the longest time that he himself is an aspie (he was speculating on the genetic factor passed to his son) and mentioned in passing he thought I was one too.

When I read more about it, it all made sense, going back through school and youth as well, with many of the things I experienced and dealt with growing up.

If you have read some of my other recent posts here, I am in a state of crisis w/job and life focus, so it felt good to admit this to someone and open up to a family member. We're not going to fill in the parental units however: they have an old fashioned very stiff upper lip attitude to people having psychological problems.

Welcome to WP!

Sorry, love your expression - parental units. Mind if I use it sometime?

I've only ever actually told two people about my suspicions. Four people know - one guessed and one actually helped me such a lot with just about everything. I didn't tell the latter what i thought it was; I just discussed all of the traits with him. The first person I told just dismissed me, and the other didn't really say much but she accepted how I felt. But the person who's been helping me - oh it was so good to have someone I know IRL with whom to discuss everything. (We only ever discuss it via MSN, ironically, but I do know him IRL.)

So welcome. Apologies for my irrelevant commentary above; I was trying to say that I know the relief to actually tell someone (Except as per usual I went way too far. Sorry.)

Hi

Parental Units? My Sister uses the same expression

Does anyone remember the early days of the Saturday Night Live show? (It was one of my early obsessions ) I seem to remember a popular sketch in which Dan Ackroyd, Jane Curtin, and Laraine Newman played extraterrestrials called The Coneheads. I think the daughter in the sketch used to refer to the other two as her parental units. It has been so many years I may be remembering it wrong, but how I loved that show . I used to memorize the sketches I liked best.

P.S. Sorry for going off topic.