pi_woman
Sea Gull
Joined: May 16, 2006
Age: 48
Posts: 227
Location: In my own little world
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 Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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I was always emotionally immature, but preferred the company of those much older than myself. I suspect it has something to do with growing up undiagnosed, and therefore seeing myself as unacceptable because I never "fit in" with other kids my age.
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Of crucial consequence is what un-, under-, and misdiagnosis in women mean in the lives of women who are AS and don't know it. One meaning is that they have no way of explaining themselves to themselves, thus no access to the support and positive sense of self they need. And, perhaps more important, more difficult, and more destructive than that, they accept the default explanations for the string of problems, setbacks, and oddities in their experiences and behavior: character weakness, resulting in a vague yet profoundly affecting belief in their own worthlessness."
-- Jean Kearns Miller, "Under-diagnosis in Women", Women From Another Planet? |
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