Anyone here as unsurprised about their DX as I was?

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I remember being told about my AS about three days after it was official. I wasn't surprised. It didn't really tell me anything about myself that I didn't already know. It didn't really affect my life too much, In fact I was semi-happy about it. I thought it brought me closer to my brother, who I adored .He was already diagnosed with HFA.

Anyone else here as unsurprised and unaffected as I was when they found out about their aspergers?

I self-dxed with NLD first, and then was officially diagnosed maybe about 6 months later. So definitely there was no surprise. There was also the fact that I'd been describing myself as having "some sort of a spatial learning disability" years before I ever heard of NLD. My brother has dyslexia (dxed in elementary school), and the parallels between the extreme difficulty we each had with certain areas (spelling for him, visual-spatial information for me) were fairly obvious. There are just some kinds of information for each of us that you can't pound into our heads with a mallet.

I was never surprised about my DX. My mother told me after I was diagnosed but forgot about it every time. I can remember her telling me a few times in sixth grade and I would remember it again. I didn't really start thinking about it till I was 14.


I was surprised about my ADD though. My mother came in my bedroom one day with a newspaper to show me an article about ADD because I wanted to know what it was because my cousin has it. I read it and there was a checklist in it about the symptoms and I fit almost all of it and realized I had it. Then a year later, I was looking through my medical records and found out I had ADD and had been diagnosed with it when I was 10. No one never told me. I didn't even know I had dyspraxia too and sensory issues, OCD, language processing disorder.
I asked my mother about dyspraxia and she said I outgrew it same as sensory issues despite still having some. I can wear jeans now and certain clothes I couldn't wear as a kid.


When I think about it, I think my mother did tell me about my sensory issues. She said that was the purpose of me being in occupational therapy and I can remember her putting her hand around my upper arm and I pulled it away because it hurt. she said that's why I'm in it. Of course I didn't know back then it wasn't supposed to be painful when she touched me there.

I went to the professionals because I strongly suspected a form of autism, but the diagnosis caught be my surprise. The people of the ASD centre helped me based on a call and I sounded/looked definitely autistic to them. And to the 2nd professional, I made the same impression without having been told. When they made the diagnosis, they were all 'well, of course, it's obvious, don't tell me you didn't anticipate this?' which was unsettling at first.

I thought I was faring quite well undercover and didn't expect people to spot me as autistic right away.