NaomiDB wrote:
Fnord wrote:
NaomiDB wrote:
Fnord wrote:
52. Relieved. Better.
Did you not feel bitter about the time you have struggled without help?
No. Do you want me to?
No haha It's just that I did, and I think my mum did.
I was in my mid-thirties before AS was officially recognized in the DSM. Had it been recognized while I was still a child, chances are that I would have been diagnosed then. Either way, it is not the diagnosis that affected me so much as the way people treated me - no one likes a nervous and jerky child who has little or no concept of inappropriate behavior or speach, no matter how intelligent he is.
The only bitterness I feel is toward the jerks in my life who have gone out of their way to make me feel bad about myself, whether by verbal or physical abuse.
I feel no bitterness about having AS/ASD, just relief at knowing why I am the way I am.