Hi there! Confused newbee here 8)

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Hello to everybody on the forum. I m glad to be able to meet new people, though I am a little confused with the whole Asperger syndrom deal. Frankly speaking, I ve learned only recently about the term and I haven t reach full understanding of it yet. Could anyone explain me about it layman s terms? The info on wikipedia and on the site is very interesting, but there are still a lot of things I don t get, like what s the diagnosis process and other things...

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Well, that's a somewhat vague couple of queries that necessarily invite long, rambling answers that may or may not address what you're actually wanting to know.

I suggest you just hang for awhile and peruse the forum threads as you find them interesting. You'll pick up a lot by osmosis, and it'll help you formulate more specific questions, and probably answer some you hadn't thought of.

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Greetings, and welcome to the Wrong Planet, heisenbug.

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Yes, good suggestion ... and if it begins to sound like somebody might be trying to impersonate you or something, you just might be one of us on the wrong planet!

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Don't be taken in - they're not answering your question because they don't know the answer.

If you have aspergers, you're different. That's the nub of it. There's a way of being that builds empathy between individuals, and we don't have the right socket to get access to it.

In the old days, we assumed everyone else was just like us and made our way through life as best we could. Nowadays they call us aspies and tell us there's nothing can be done about it. So we make our way through life as best we can.

Experts need entire books to explain the condition to others. People with it can fill an entire book telling people how it affected them or how it was part of experiences that shaped them. A birds eye description may be good for when you are telling someone else that you have AS and what it means. But, I think most with AS want specifics to see if the label applies to them. Each persons experiences are unique for various reasons, so finding those things presented in a manner that you connect with takes a while. If I could explain something that is so complex and integrated into my own being that it affected my own perception of my entire life, in just two lines, I wouldn't hesitate to do so. I don't think I'm capable of that type of thought compression, and I don't think that compressed thought would be very useful to the OP. So, I agree with what Willard suggested.


To heisenbug:

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

One suggestion I have is to use the search feature up on the top right corner of the page. You wouldn't believe some of the off the wall topics that have been discussed on this site. Just throw in any question you have and hit search.

Example:
Is [insert odd personal quirk here] a symptom of AS?"

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