ASD and ADHD (inattention)!!!
I have been self diagnosed for the past 3 months, but that just wasn't good enough for me. My first therapist appointment was on Feb 2, and since then my therapist has gone out of town TWICE in the middle of my assessment (lame). So I have been waiting a loooong time for this. I have had a lot of time to accept and even embrace my Aspie nature
I feel liberated. I feel like I don't have to be 53628 people anymore (one person when I was alone, another person when I was with family, another person when I was with peers, etc). I can just be ME all the time and it is a pretty awesome feeling. I literally want to shout it from the mountain tops!!!!.....but that's a little difficult in Nebraska. Oh well, I'll find a hill or something.
Oh and also my therapist said that last year, they, (whomever 'they' are) threw out the terms Autism and Aspergers altogether, and replaced it with the term ASD, which is basically an umbrella that covers everyone on the spectrum. Then they just rate it 1-3, 3 being severely autistic. Just something new I learned today.
So yeah, there was really no point to this post at all. I'm just extremely elated to finally have a formal diagnosis and this is my form of shouting it from the mountain tops, I guess
I have been self diagnosed for the past 3 months, but that just wasn't good enough for me. My first therapist appointment was on Feb 2, and since then my therapist has gone out of town TWICE in the middle of my assessment (lame). So I have been waiting a loooong time for this. I have had a lot of time to accept and even embrace my Aspie nature
I feel liberated. I feel like I don't have to be 53628 people anymore (one person when I was alone, another person when I was with family, another person when I was with peers, etc). I can just be ME all the time and it is a pretty awesome feeling. I literally want to shout it from the mountain tops!!!!.....but that's a little difficult in Nebraska. Oh well, I'll find a hill or something.
Oh and also my therapist said that last year, they, (whomever 'they' are) threw out the terms Autism and Aspergers altogether, and replaced it with the term ASD, which is basically an umbrella that covers everyone on the spectrum. Then they just rate it 1-3, 3 being severely autistic. Just something new I learned today.
So yeah, there was really no point to this post at all. I'm just extremely elated to finally have a formal diagnosis and this is my form of shouting it from the mountain tops, I guess