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Hi, and thank you. It was nice to open a door and see a whole group of people who were the same as myself along with the feelings, issues and experiences at different times throughout life. For me finding out I went through a two month overdrive of thought analyzing myself, my life, who I wanted to be and finally truly giving it all to God to control (short versionHi and welcome. I think a lot of us on here recognise each other's experience of things, or have some similar traits, so you will likely get some feeling of being understood here I hope. There's some information and threads here you may find interesting as you research ADHD and ASD1/Aspergers, and you can post threads and questions of your own of course. Perhaps you have some strategies to share?
Knowing that you have these neurologist helps find strategies, I think, rather than just trying ideas that fit for those who are neurotypical, which is what many of us have done until we find out more about autism and ADHD. I hope you enjoy it here and find it useful and supportive.
). I was losing many hours a day to thought that passed like minutes, couldn’t sleep and so on. I went to one of my grown sons birthday party and when I walked in it was very loud after I had been in pure silence for a long time. This sent a deep overwhelming base feeling in my chest and when I looked at everyone they had different colored text bubbles above their heads with the words starting to form when I had to look away because I thought I was going to pass out like blood pressure dropping. This is one of the weird things that happened that I couldn’t find on the search engine if your familiar or anyone else.Thank you.Hi Mike
Welcome aboard!
I got my formal diagnosis a few year's ago now and that was a huge relief too, so understand what you mean.
I thought I was doing well masking, but since I was not successful in making friends, I came to see that I was not good at masking, otherwise I would have friends.
Now, I do not bother to mask, due to that formal diagnosis and actually, ones are more accepting of me.
I joined when I was self diagnosed and it is the first time I ever felt accepted, so the fact you come here formally diagnosied, how much more so, will you feel accepted?!
A little facts about aspergers.
Males are diagnosed far more than females. One, because females are better at masking than males and two, because the critera set out is so narrow minded, that it has not taken into account other aspects of aspergers, but happily, that is changing and I am proof of that, as is other female aspies on here.
It is now referred to as: ASD ( autism spectrum disorder). It takes on similar properties to classic autism, but the big difference is that we can actually improve ie not static, as is classic autism.
There is an expression I discovered on here: you meet one aspie..... you meet one aspie. So, we are all unique, but not so unique that we are unrecognisable.
I have found that on diagnosis and understanding, at last eye contact issues, that I have improved in that area, unless someone is over talking or makes me generally feel uncomfortable, my mind starts wondering and suddenly can't make contact, or if I am angry.
Stimming as calmed down too and I laugh now, when I catch myself stimming.
Have found, though, with diagnosis, comes a sort of panic. There is no "back door". You are, so you have to deal with it and that sometimes can make me feel very scared.
, and have a great day. mike
Hi and thank you for the help. I agree, I can relate in many ways to all I’ve read so far. As far as strategies, that’s difficult in a way since I had no idea I had this, just all the negative side affects from it but always feeling there was more. At that point I didn’t handle it well in ways like most I have read about here and elsewhere in the many directions. I had many difficult personal situations that collided around one time and the end result was feeling like a weight came off and everything started coming out leading to now. I’m just trying to figure this new ND world out and understand it in the different directions to better know and understand myself in strength and weakness for growth.Hi and welcome. I think a lot of us on here recognise each other's experience of things, or have some similar traits, so you will likely get some feeling of being understood here I hope. There's some information and threads here you may find interesting as you research ADHD and ASD1/Aspergers, and you can post threads and questions of your own of course. Perhaps you have some strategies to share?
Knowing that you have these neurologist helps find strategies, I think, rather than just trying ideas that fit for those who are neurotypical, which is what many of us have done until we find out more about autism and ADHD. I hope you enjoy it here and find it useful and supportive.
Hi, and welcome back as I saw you were new also.
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