Hello, Just another Aspergers individual

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Hello everyone,

I am new here and I was diagnosed with asperger's syndrome when I was 16. Which to my understanding is a bit unusually since I was older, however I've been home-schooled and isolated most of my childhood. I am 19 now and in college but I have severe issues fitting in with other individuals in both my family and at my college. The few "friends" I do have generally view me as odd to say the least.

I have a few other psychological diagnoses, including PTSD and I have been hospitalized in several psychiatric hospital over the course of the last three years. The title of this web site caught my attention because I've always felt like I didn't belong anywhere. I have a very poor relationship with my parents due to a lot of acting on my part that I failed to realize was wrong until after the fact. In particular my dad, who is very unsupportive of my current situation and doesn't believe I am Aspergers, views it more as a excuse.

I feel like Aspergers is a huge problem in my life and I feel like I can't hardy get anyway in life because of it. Despite Doctors and therapists telling me that I am progressing along well with my disabilities. I fight depression a lot and I feel like all my friends are leaving me.

dcj123 well you are going to have learn to adapt to the big bad world out there, being aspie is not an excuse only full blown autism is. Yes it will be tough and yes you will expeience many more boughts of depression but try to focus on your people skills and learn to compansate for your weaknesses it can be done. It's a big tough world out there.

Welcome to WP.
Dont think 16 is old for diagnosis of Aspergers we have lots of 40+
Often teenage years is when the depression starts caused by the social isolation.

Hi dcj123!! Welcome to WP

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Nice to meet you, fellow-traveler dcj123. Welcome to the Wrong Planet.

To WrongPlanet!! !

Hello everyone, thank you for making me feel accepted.

I never really wanted to use aspergers as an excuse, its just more recently I realize that all of the difficulty I have had in life has been because of my diagnosis. I feel like people want to know me, but than when they actually do; they begin to avoid me and want nothing to do with me.



I read some where a while back that most diagnosis were given during childhood, but I was aware of a few other cases. For me, its like a cycle between anger and depression when I become isolated. Most of the years I spent in school as a child/teenager, I was depressed due everyone having friends and me not fitting in.