Hey, I can't help but actually hurt as I read your posts. I'm only a year older than you are and am going through a very similar situation. I wish this was empathy talking, but it's totally sympathy. It can be so hard to make people understand that you don't want to be who you are are. You don't want to be a label. You would love to trade your brain in for a different one. And AS is not ADHD, and it's not depression and it's not those other things people with Psychology doctorates try to tell us we are. You may show similar traits to ADHD (I do) and you may be depressed, but that's stuff that's happened after the fact. It happened because of a root problem. And you might not get help in school or in a job by getting diagnosed, but I think it's important to seek the truth. And if AS is your truth, seek on. Of course, I say this as I beat myself up over who I am and am too scared to ask my own parents to pay to get a diagnosis. But AS didn't even appear in the psychologist's Bible (The DSM) until 1994. I know there are many people on here significantly older than us who weren't diagnosed until middle adulthood or later, but we are lucky in a way. No one caught us when we were little, because they weren't looking. I know that I was the smart, weird kid who belonged in both gifted classes and special ed (gifted ed is special ed), but who was placed in neither. They tried to hammer me into a hole I didn't fit in. But if we can get the truth now as young adults, maybe we are better off. Maybe it's worth a shot. Whichever way you look, may it be favorable to you and to the building of truth within your heart and soul.
EDIT: This was meant as a response to someone's post. Somehow it became its own topic. Oh well, I guess it works on its own as well.
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28 Oct 2009, 9:37 pm
