Whoever that is. I figure I might as well get this over with.
Hi everyone, 27 year old male here. A few months ago I befriended someone with AS and since I want to be a good friend, I started researching it online. After some investigation I now see a lot of evidence that I might have AS myself. I'm still not certain; my mom thinks I might have it, my dad thinks I probably don't. I've learned a lot of social skills and I can usually interact with people pretty well, but on the other hand I have never made friends easily and I have aversion to touch, bright lights, etc, etc. I have a whole laundry list of symptoms written up somewhere, but that's not really the point. I have no formal diagnosis of anything.
I guess the point is that I am re-evaluating what I think about myself and others. I feel so much relief at "connecting the dots" between all of these things that I never associated with each other before, but at the same time I am troubled about what this means for my future. Like I said, I have adapted pretty well so I could probably "pretend" to be a normal person and get away with it for quite some time, but I have never been the kind of person who likes to pretend things that aren't real. That's another one of those aspie things (which, by the way, I LOVE in other people). But I have a lot of self-doubt about all this; do I "qualify" as an aspie? Do I fit in here, or anywhere? I've felt more than once that I fall somewhere between the two camps, NT and AS, and don't properly fit in either. But the people I've met in the ASD community have been so kind and welcoming that even if I don't exactly fit, maybe I will be accepted anyway.
So anyway, I'm pretty excited to get to know people around here. I've met a few aspies in the past month and I've been impressed at how beautiful, intelligent and thoughtful they have all been. I can't even begin to understand how these people have been bullied or picked on with what I see in them.
Hi everyone, 27 year old male here. A few months ago I befriended someone with AS and since I want to be a good friend, I started researching it online. After some investigation I now see a lot of evidence that I might have AS myself. I'm still not certain; my mom thinks I might have it, my dad thinks I probably don't. I've learned a lot of social skills and I can usually interact with people pretty well, but on the other hand I have never made friends easily and I have aversion to touch, bright lights, etc, etc. I have a whole laundry list of symptoms written up somewhere, but that's not really the point. I have no formal diagnosis of anything.
I guess the point is that I am re-evaluating what I think about myself and others. I feel so much relief at "connecting the dots" between all of these things that I never associated with each other before, but at the same time I am troubled about what this means for my future. Like I said, I have adapted pretty well so I could probably "pretend" to be a normal person and get away with it for quite some time, but I have never been the kind of person who likes to pretend things that aren't real. That's another one of those aspie things (which, by the way, I LOVE in other people). But I have a lot of self-doubt about all this; do I "qualify" as an aspie? Do I fit in here, or anywhere? I've felt more than once that I fall somewhere between the two camps, NT and AS, and don't properly fit in either. But the people I've met in the ASD community have been so kind and welcoming that even if I don't exactly fit, maybe I will be accepted anyway.
So anyway, I'm pretty excited to get to know people around here. I've met a few aspies in the past month and I've been impressed at how beautiful, intelligent and thoughtful they have all been. I can't even begin to understand how these people have been bullied or picked on with what I see in them.
