louloulovesdogs
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So I've been "self diagnosed" for a while but I've gotten an official diagnosis recently and it's taken a bit of getting used to. Certain traits that are autistic have stood out to be more, but I think I'm just more aware of them and more like connecting the dots of my past and behavior.
Basically, now certain things that have always bothered me but I've always just got on with I now feel like I don't want to have to deal with. It's not just me being picky or annoying, it's because I'm autistic and my brain works differently. So this has resulted in me really wanting to tell people about my diagnosis, I guess so some of my weird things can be forgiven in a way, or maybe I can be allowed to do other things (like go in my own room at work, which I can do now, but if you do it for the majority of the day it's viewed as odd and my manager will wonder where I am and if I am working).
But I'm afraid of 3 things: 1. it jeopardizing my job, which i really don't think it would, I don't think I would be fired, but I feel that it might impact it in some way, 2. people treating me differently because currently most people point out my aspie traits but they do it in a "oh that's just you" so funny kind of way, but i feel that they would either stop joking about that stuff in fear of offending me, or if they do, notice it in a more sympathetic way like oh poor you you can't understand that, and then 3. people viewing (and me feeling like i am...) my disclosure or asking for certain things as just being a way to get special treatment and have things easier......
thoughts and any similar experiences???
Basically, now certain things that have always bothered me but I've always just got on with I now feel like I don't want to have to deal with. It's not just me being picky or annoying, it's because I'm autistic and my brain works differently. So this has resulted in me really wanting to tell people about my diagnosis, I guess so some of my weird things can be forgiven in a way, or maybe I can be allowed to do other things (like go in my own room at work, which I can do now, but if you do it for the majority of the day it's viewed as odd and my manager will wonder where I am and if I am working).
But I'm afraid of 3 things: 1. it jeopardizing my job, which i really don't think it would, I don't think I would be fired, but I feel that it might impact it in some way, 2. people treating me differently because currently most people point out my aspie traits but they do it in a "oh that's just you" so funny kind of way, but i feel that they would either stop joking about that stuff in fear of offending me, or if they do, notice it in a more sympathetic way like oh poor you you can't understand that, and then 3. people viewing (and me feeling like i am...) my disclosure or asking for certain things as just being a way to get special treatment and have things easier......
thoughts and any similar experiences???