| How open are you about AS? |
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11% |
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| Only friends |
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9% |
[ 7 ] |
| Only close friends/family |
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38% |
[ 28 ] |
| Very few |
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30% |
[ 22 ] |
| Noone personally |
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9% |
[ 7 ] |
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mds_02
Skank
Joined: Sep 10, 2011
Posts: 1947
Location: Los Angeles
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| My gf and the people on this board are the only ones that know. The rest of the world already thinks poorly enough of me, no need to give them more ammo to use against me. |
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Guineapigged
Velociraptor
Joined: Sep 17, 2011
Age: 21
Posts: 410
Location: UK
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Only my family, college tutors and people involved in my care know. I don't tell peers or strangers. |
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sillycat
Velociraptor
Joined: Jun 14, 2010
Posts: 418
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: I'm a terrible liar. |
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| I usually let slip I might have some "thing" different with me, thus piequing interest. |
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Atomsk
Bass Fiend
Joined: Apr 10, 2008
Age: 24
Posts: 1539
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Only close friends and family know about my diagnosis. When I was in elementary middle and high school, I was much much more open about it, but I really needed to be to explain certain behaviors, at least in elementary and middle school. In high school I began to not be so open about it, as I had stopped most of my tics and compulsive movements and stuff. |
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aussiebloke
Phoenix
Joined: Oct 15, 2009
Age: 37
Posts: 3878
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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No because nobody cares about me which suits me just fine I feel the same way about them.
I told my birds 
I think thats why they like me more than anybody else 
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aussiebloke
Phoenix
Joined: Oct 15, 2009
Age: 37
Posts: 3878
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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No I've been lead to believe by Autism Tv that it's a superior college educated persons disorder , so I can't have it.
Since I don't have it why would I tell some one I have something that I don't have?
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SyphonFilter
Phoenix
Joined: Feb 08, 2011
Posts: 2072
Location: Seattle, WA
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I chose the "very few" option because none of my friends know about my having AS (yet), and only my mom and twin brother know I have Asperger's specifically. |
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Wayne
Deinonychus
Joined: Nov 16, 2009
Posts: 365
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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I came out on Facebook a year ago. So anyone who was paying attention that day knows.
I'll write about it, but I don't like to talk about it all that much. Just like most other things on my mind... writing about it is easier. But me and my wife and kids are pretty open about it. |
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Briana_Lopez
Deinonychus
Joined: Jan 07, 2012
Age: 16
Posts: 326
Location: Tyngsboro, MA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I've only been able to tell a couple of my friends that I have AS, and I want to tell more of them about it. Right now I'm trying to give them the hint that I'm an aspie without mentioning it by telling them about my symptoms when I was little and all the treatment I got for it to make me act more like an NT. But I know they're never going to fully understand me so I WILL have to just openly admit that I have it and hope that they'll accept me for who I am. On top of that, I'm still very nervous about telling my aspie boyfriend about it, although that shouldn't be hard since we had the same issues and treatment growing up. |
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Cutlass_Jack
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Feb 07, 2012
Age: 18
Posts: 60
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| No one really. Too afraid they will treat me differently. |
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Nexus
Seems legit...
Joined: Aug 15, 2006
Posts: 1111
Location: On I2
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Only those who are required to know by law or medical reasons and anyone I trust or feel they should know.
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Mithos
Phoenix
Joined: Feb 22, 2012
Age: 22
Posts: 685
Location: Ponyville, Equestria.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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I was never diagnosed so I can't tell anybody if I have it or not. 
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Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 72 of 200
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iamiubu
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Apr 07, 2008
Posts: 32
Location: MississippiDelta
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Looking back, knowing what I know now it would be 90% no and 10% yes |
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kg4fxg
Snowy Owl
Joined: Feb 08, 2012
Posts: 168
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject: Shhhhhhhh |
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Quiet,
Please don't tell anyone. I am still new at this and trying to figure out what to do? I am successful, I am smart, I have six certificates on the wall. I am a CPA & CGMA. Now this.....OK, so I don't excel at social stuff?
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CockneyRebel
Mick Avory, Sensitive brown-eyed Sweet Pea
Joined: Jul 18, 2004
Age: 38
Posts: 87192
Location: In a quiet and peaceful garden, where gentle Mick Avory-like Sweet Peas grow.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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My friends and the staff at the clubhouse that I go to know. The staff will know after today. I've done the Stepping Stones survey today and I've left a few choice comments on the back. Not in a nasty way, or with swear words.
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