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Recent content by goneepi

  1. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    It's not clear really. I think what's happened is she didn't realize the extent to which I was different, to which I suffered, to which I adapted, and knowing that is too much for her. I dunno.
  2. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    I think she probably felt like before it was just quirks that I could control. Now that it's a "condition," I dunno, now it's something else.
  3. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    Yeah that's hard for me to digest, but you're probably right. She doesn't want to accept it.
  4. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    THAT topic right there is a proverbial can of worms for me. OH TO HAVE KNOWN
  5. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    Man this just doesn't get easier, does it.
  6. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    I feel like she got a raw deal.
  7. goneepi

    Do I want friends??

    It effects my wife, too. She wants friends BADLY, but as much as I happily encourage her to go out and about with friends, I still wind up being an anchor holding her back.
  8. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    Hmm, I'm no fan of the "we all have work ons" thing, which I know is technically true, but still.
  9. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    That's a thing - it seems mostly positive to me, but she takes it all as catastrophe. I mean, the tales may be sad ones, stuff about how hard things have been, but KNOWING this stuff now is good. She is overwhelmed I guess by the idea that there is so much she didn't realize was struggle.
  10. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    thanks. :)
  11. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    Not yet. She's nicer than that. :)
  12. goneepi

    Do I want friends??

    Right! I don't want to now be at the beck and call of folks who want to "do stuff" all the time. This is the trade off I guess.
  13. goneepi

    Do I want friends??

    In a separate thread I mentioned how I can't talk about this Aspergers stuff with my wife. What that also raises is the fact that I don't really have any friends, not nearby or so close that I could burden them out of the blue with thoughts and feelings. Since leaving the professional theatre...
  14. goneepi

    I can't talk to my wife about my Aspergers

    She just can't handle it. If I point out something another aspie author has written about their struggles, and say, "Hey I relate to this, I thought I was the only one!" she takes it to mean that I'm miserable about everything in our lives, which of course I'm not. The bottom line is I can't...
  15. goneepi

    Waiting for a diagnosis

    Hehe I often find myself referring to normal people as "humans"
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