finding out I'm not a weirdo,just an aspie!

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Hi everybody, I'm 40 and female,so never knew I was an aspie until this year. I knew I wasn't "normal" just didn't have a diagnosis back then so I spent hideous years misdiagnosed,in psych treatment, being bullied at school and having school tell my mother if I would try to be normal I wouldn't be such a target,etc. anybody else here been through this sort of thing? I have a 3 year old soon who is showing signs of AS,too. That's sort of how I started reading about it and found out that was my situation too.So I finally realized I am not a chronic screw-up I just have Asperger's. In some ways this has been a great relief and in other ways I have alot of sorrow over the past,but I know that can't be changed and I try not to get all hung up on it. Anyway this is me,nice to meet you all!

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Hi welcome to WP
its nice to meet you, too.

Hi Snapdragon and welcome to WP.
I'm in my 40s so 'Snap!' I only found out this year as well that there was such a thing
as AS. At school a psychologist simply classed me as being very shy and awkward so it
never occured to me there might actually be a 'syndrome' to explain it.

I'm so old ( 58 ) that we didn't even HAVE school psychologists! I was lucky in some ways. I was smart and never caused trouble, so everybody, including the other kids, just ignored me. I didn't have any friends, but I wasn't bullied, or hardly any. Just very lonely.

I know what you mean about discovering AS. It's kind of a relief, but in the end, it doesn't really change much. We're still considered weird and ostracized, but now we have a convenient label. Still, I'm glad I found out about it.

I'm glad I finally got up the nerve to join this forum and start reaching out to the aspie community. It's also been quite a great relief for my mother to have a "syndrome" to explain things after so many years of shrinks telling her she was messing me all up and stuff.

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Hiya Snapdragon (cool name)

I've gotten a lot of relief knowing about asperger's. It greatly cut down on the regret I've lived most of my life with. The problems weren't what I did, they were what I was, and it really couldn't have been much different no matter what I had done. Most of the time anyway.

So welcome.

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Hi Snapdragon, welcome to WP.

I'm in my late 40's and have only known about Asperger's for a couple of years. It's a relief to know isn't it? This site has helped me a lot, to understand about it.

Hope you enjoy it here.

I think I will like it here. nice to know there are people who can understand. On one hand I was relieved to find out but also felt really sad for a while that I was not ever gonna get myself "together" and become magically NT. But as I find NT people boring as hell I think I'll be ok.