Hello. I've been staring at this empty white box for a while now and I just don't know what to say... this is unreasonably scary for me, as I have a lot of social anxiety.
I'm 36 and I'm in the process of getting an autism diagnosis. I have a few other psychiatric diagnoses already - GAD, panic disorder, agoraphobia... I was also assessed for avoidant personality disorder but scored just below cutoff. I've had several depressive episodes, starting in my early teens.
My best friend has Aspergers and ADD, and she's been saying from the very start that I probably have it too. It would explain why we get along so well, I suppose. I'm definitely more "high functioning" (I hope I'm not offending anyone by using that term) than her though, and didn't really think I would meet the criteria for diagnosis... but now I'm starting to rethink. I'm probably just better at pretending to be normal, but the older I get it's just making me so very tired, and I don't think I can keep it up anymore. I'm hoping an official diagnosis would lessen the burden a bit, if that makes sense.
I miss the old days when the Internet was new and it was easy to form real friendships online, when you could really get to know someone through livejournal and such. I don't know if this is the place to make connections like that, but... here I am. I would love to get to know you all.
I'm 36 and I'm in the process of getting an autism diagnosis. I have a few other psychiatric diagnoses already - GAD, panic disorder, agoraphobia... I was also assessed for avoidant personality disorder but scored just below cutoff. I've had several depressive episodes, starting in my early teens.
My best friend has Aspergers and ADD, and she's been saying from the very start that I probably have it too. It would explain why we get along so well, I suppose. I'm definitely more "high functioning" (I hope I'm not offending anyone by using that term) than her though, and didn't really think I would meet the criteria for diagnosis... but now I'm starting to rethink. I'm probably just better at pretending to be normal, but the older I get it's just making me so very tired, and I don't think I can keep it up anymore. I'm hoping an official diagnosis would lessen the burden a bit, if that makes sense.
I miss the old days when the Internet was new and it was easy to form real friendships online, when you could really get to know someone through livejournal and such. I don't know if this is the place to make connections like that, but... here I am. I would love to get to know you all.