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Hi everyone. I've recently had some sessions with a professional for the purpose of diagnosing me with AS. We have done only 2 of 3 sessions but he told me that he is "99.9% sure" that when he goes through his notes at the end he will determine that I am on the spectrum.

I have suspected for the last few years that I have AS, because I have a tendency to find myself in horrific situations at work and end up having to leave because "everyone" else finds it impossible to work with me. I am just now going through this for the third time, and now my academic career, which I have been trying to build since I started university at 16, is almost certainly over, not only because I don't think any other university will give me a chance with my record (if I did apply for another academic position), but also because I don't think I can face working among other human beings every day again, ever.

I won't go into the gory details about all that here, though I'm sure I will post about it soon to ask questions about what I can do, etc. I just found this site last night and I'm hoping to meet some other normal people here (as far as I'm concerned, people like us are normal and everyone else is weird, and any diagnosis I may have of having some "disorder" will not change that).

Sorry if my message seems ranty, but I have been going through a lot lately because of horrible treatment from other people - those who are supposed to be much more "socially adept" than I am, but that still didn't stop them from sending nasty emails about me behind my back and ridiculing me in front of my own students which caused them to rate my teaching as terrible, and goodness only knows what they said to each other "off the record". As I'm sure many people here have gone through similar situations, I hope you can understand how I'm feeling right now.

Anyway, um, hi. :)
 
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dragoncat16 said:
Hi everyone. I've recently had some sessions with a professional for the purpose of diagnosing me with AS. We have done only 2 of 3 sessions but he told me that he is "99.9% sure" that when he goes through his notes at the end he will determine that I am on the spectrum.

I have suspected for the last few years that I have AS, because I have a tendency to find myself in horrific situations at work and end up having to leave because "everyone" else finds it impossible to work with me. I am just now going through this for the third time, and now my academic career, which I have been trying to build since I started university at 16, is almost certainly over, not only because I don't think any other university will give me a chance with my record (if I did apply for another academic position), but also because I don't think I can face working among other human beings every day again, ever.

I won't go into the gory details about all that here, though I'm sure I will post about it soon to ask questions about what I can do, etc. I just found this site last night and I'm hoping to meet some other normal people here (as far as I'm concerned, people like us are normal and everyone else is weird, and any diagnosis I may have of having some "disorder" will not change that).

Sorry if my message seems ranty, but I have been going through a lot lately because of horrible treatment from other people - those who are supposed to be much more "socially adept" than I am, but that still didn't stop them from sending nasty emails about me behind my back and ridiculing me in front of my own students which caused them to rate my teaching as terrible, and goodness only knows what they said to each other "off the record". As I'm sure many people here have gone through similar situations, I hope you can understand how I'm feeling right now.

Anyway, um, hi. :)
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I got to your stage about seven or 8 years ago sorry I always do this welcome
 
Welcome.

It'll be 18 years next month since I was diagnosed at the age of 23, I'm now 41, however it wouldn't have come about if not for my sister in law noticing that I was like clients she worked with in a home for Autistic adults in Gloucester, England back then.
 
Thanks for the messages of welcome. I finally decided to get tested because my union representative (helping me with my latest employment situation) said that I'm exactly like his wife, who has AS. He said it was really obvious to him within 15 minutes of first meeiting me.

When I had self-diagnosed a few years ago, my mom told me to keep it a secret because she was worried about the stigma of having a "mental illness" and that I would never get another job. Even if I had been tested, I don't know if I would have disclosed it because I wouldn't have required any adjustments anyway. I was treated badly enough as it was without everyone knowing about my AS. If they had, they would no doubt have noticed my problems with social interaction right from the beginning (because they would have been looking for it).
 
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