How did you feel when you received you diagnosis?

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Denial. I had never heard of Asperger's before and was only visiting the psychiatrist because my parents bribed me into going. Plus the doctor was a condescending dick.

After I later learned about autism and accepted it I didn't have much of a reaction. "Huh."

I was relieved, but also annoyed that it took so long to get the diagnosis since I'm not male. One nice thing about the psychologist who made the diagnosis is that they talked to me like an adult, since my previous experiences have been with people who talked down to me as if they thought I was significantly delayed.

tbh, i actually WANTED to be diagnosed with it... because otherwise it would have been a case of "you don't have autism - you're just so weird!! !"

At first I was like, awesome now I'm a qualified metal head, certified nut-case. This song came to mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VtFJ0eMTw

I always knew I was a bit mad but in the sense that if I'm out with the boys and one says "no one in their right mind would jump off this aqueduct into the river" they'd find me flying through the air mid sentence.

Then came the social workers a few months after the diagnosis who came into my home to call me disabled and tell me I had no friends. My life just went down hill from there. They chipped away at my confidence, my ability to fit in, my understanding of how the world works. Years later, long after they have gone I live the life of an aspie. I still have most of the same friends I was told I didn't have back then but little ability to make new ones as I constantly question my ability/what I say which gave me severe problems with social anxiety, something I've never had in my life.

I felt like s**t.

At the time of my diagnosis I was so overwhelmed with emotion that although I could hear the other people in the room talking, I couldn't make out what they were saying. All I knew at the time was that these people were saying some very warm things to me, which I could tell by the tone of their voices.