Do you obsess about being autistic ?

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Since i was diagnosed sometimes the first thought i have when i wake up in the morning is, "i have aspergers". Sometimes i can go for an hour or so without thinking, "i have aspergers" or "i am autistic". Then this thought can get stuck in my head for sometime.
Then i read or post on websites and forums specifically for people who are autistic or have asperger syndrome.
So what i am saying is that i spend many hours of the day foucussing on autism and how i am autistic. I don't think that it is healthy, i think that i would have a better life if i just forgot about my autism and got on with things.

Me too, but how can we forget about it when the world constantly reminds us that we're not understood?!

Have you been recently diagnosed?
Your post count isn't very high, so I'm guessing that's the case.

I think it's pretty normal to obsess about it for the first little while.

I obsessed with it after I got dx. Now I'm starting to obsess with it again...

I think it's natural to obsess over it when you have to mentally catalogue all the things in your life that AS has a profound affect on.

No one here can say that our lives would not be easier if we didn't have AS.

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I have no problems with living in the world and have no desire for understanding from it, whatever that means. I am talking about the functionality of my own brain.

I was diagnosed in 2005.

I'd have no problems with living in the world either if nobody expected anything from me. What I mean by being understood is being constantly misjudged. As to an AS brain thinking about AS so much, I'm not so sure we can tell how long our 'special interest' will last. If nature can abhor a vacuum, then probably our brain does too.

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I obsess about it all the time. I wonder if I am not on the spectrum and then I am wondering if I am HFA or not but then I see "No I can't be, I am too close to normal."

I have been obsessed for the past 4 months.
I was told several years ago but just ignored it because I didn't think it affected me too much but then it dawned on me this year that it does and is the reason for repeated failures. I have therefore been learning as much about it as possible and also noticing traits I have, but don't know if reading about it has made me acquire or exacerbate traits that weren't there previously - autosuggestion?
I just want to get on with life now and forget about it a bit.

I don't obsess about it.

Tim

no , im not obsessed. i'm quite used to being me.

People do that with whatever malady they've been diagnosed with. If you're dx'd with cancer, you wake up each morning and say "I have cancer" and you think about it off and on all day long. If you're dx'd with Bipolar Disorder, you wake up every day and say "I'm bipolar" and think about it off and on all day long. As time passes by, you'll think of it less and less. But I don't think it ever goes away.

When you start obsessing, force yourself to avert your thoughts to something else. It's not a cure, but it'll help.

Having not really thought about it for the first 3 or so years after I was diagnosed, I now definatly obsess about it. I can find it rather depressing, espically when I hear/read many NT's thoughts about us.

I obsess about it all the time. I always think about it and most of my time online is spent on some kind of Asperger's forum or researching Asperger's. There was a time when I started to doubt if I had it or not for some reason. Some days I feel normal:) But now I am sure...and I have an official DX

Maybe it's an aspie thing...a lot of aspies tend to obsess. Atleast, I know I do.