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Hello! I will try to keep this fairly short as I have a tendency to ramble
My name is Jason, my friends call me Jay.
I am 41 and I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 2014, my report also says that as well as meeting the formal diagnostic criteria for AS, i also have dyspraxia and features of dyslexia and dyscalculia (all those dyses!) before I was diagnosed I have on my records that I have depression, anxiety, possible ADD and BPD, it seems at the time my psychiatrist did not think this could all be down to Asperger syndrome, she was unable to give me a specific name to whatever conditions I may have so she said I was a mixed bag! Now I have the AS diagnosis i wonder if if all of those other things I have is down to that or if they are separate problems.
My mum quickly noticed there was something different about me but back in the 70's I don't think there was much awareness of autism and she was just told she is an over anxious mum and that I will catch up at my own pace. When I was about 7 or 8 we moved from Wales to where I live now on the south coast of England and I started primary school, it was there where someone else noticed I was different, the headmaster of the school. My mum had deliberately chose not to mention anything about me just to see if someone else would pick up on it, and they did, so I got lumped with the term learning disability and I had my own special needs teacher, then I was in and out of mainstream school and sort of a hospital for kids with learning disabilities, them what I call the nut house although officially it was a hospital for adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems.
My special interests include geosciences (specifically mineralogy) although the whole subject of geology interests me. astronomy, nature/wildlife and aviation, and lately I have become increasing obsessed with atoms, elements and photons!
I also enjoy composing music and playing it on my keyboard.
My name is Jason, my friends call me Jay.
I am 41 and I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 2014, my report also says that as well as meeting the formal diagnostic criteria for AS, i also have dyspraxia and features of dyslexia and dyscalculia (all those dyses!) before I was diagnosed I have on my records that I have depression, anxiety, possible ADD and BPD, it seems at the time my psychiatrist did not think this could all be down to Asperger syndrome, she was unable to give me a specific name to whatever conditions I may have so she said I was a mixed bag! Now I have the AS diagnosis i wonder if if all of those other things I have is down to that or if they are separate problems.
My mum quickly noticed there was something different about me but back in the 70's I don't think there was much awareness of autism and she was just told she is an over anxious mum and that I will catch up at my own pace. When I was about 7 or 8 we moved from Wales to where I live now on the south coast of England and I started primary school, it was there where someone else noticed I was different, the headmaster of the school. My mum had deliberately chose not to mention anything about me just to see if someone else would pick up on it, and they did, so I got lumped with the term learning disability and I had my own special needs teacher, then I was in and out of mainstream school and sort of a hospital for kids with learning disabilities, them what I call the nut house although officially it was a hospital for adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems.
My special interests include geosciences (specifically mineralogy) although the whole subject of geology interests me. astronomy, nature/wildlife and aviation, and lately I have become increasing obsessed with atoms, elements and photons!
I also enjoy composing music and playing it on my keyboard.
