theporgsnest
Well-Known Member
Wow, I'm glad I finally made an account - been lurking for a while, you see...
Anyhoo, I'm a 26-year old from south-east England. I was officially diagnosed with Aspergers when I was 10 (although the process began when I was a few years younger, however my family moved and being in a new county, we had to start it over again, get on the waiting list etc...such is life)
It's only really until now that I feel like I need more support. As a child and teenager I was in decent mainstream school with great pastoral care and special needs/asd support. Same with when I was an undergraduate. It's not until now that I feel like something is lacking - but it's hard to know whether that's because things are 'showing up' more glaringly as I enter the expectations of being in my mid-twenties and Adulting (and most of the time feel like I'm a few paces behind my NT family and few friends, emotionally and mentally) OR because I've actually 'regressed' somehow.
So I just got in contact with the local ASD team and am on the way to getting more support. My assessment officer mentioning getting involved in what she called 'my own community' and my first stop was online, naturally.
So yeah, I'm kind of wanting to also being a journey to accepting myself and my diagnosis more too, becoming confident with it. It's something I have an almost daily battle with, if I'm honest.
...okay now the more positive stuff. I've been a creative and artistic person since early on *points to profile pic* mainly animal-related art. My degree was in bioscience with a focus on microbiology as well as genetics so I'm always happy to gas on about science with people. Also a prequel and sequel-trilogy fan, hence the name. I guess you could always nickname me porgy if you wanted lol
Anyway I'm so glad I found this forum
Anyhoo, I'm a 26-year old from south-east England. I was officially diagnosed with Aspergers when I was 10 (although the process began when I was a few years younger, however my family moved and being in a new county, we had to start it over again, get on the waiting list etc...such is life)
It's only really until now that I feel like I need more support. As a child and teenager I was in decent mainstream school with great pastoral care and special needs/asd support. Same with when I was an undergraduate. It's not until now that I feel like something is lacking - but it's hard to know whether that's because things are 'showing up' more glaringly as I enter the expectations of being in my mid-twenties and Adulting (and most of the time feel like I'm a few paces behind my NT family and few friends, emotionally and mentally) OR because I've actually 'regressed' somehow.
So I just got in contact with the local ASD team and am on the way to getting more support. My assessment officer mentioning getting involved in what she called 'my own community' and my first stop was online, naturally.
So yeah, I'm kind of wanting to also being a journey to accepting myself and my diagnosis more too, becoming confident with it. It's something I have an almost daily battle with, if I'm honest.
...okay now the more positive stuff. I've been a creative and artistic person since early on *points to profile pic* mainly animal-related art. My degree was in bioscience with a focus on microbiology as well as genetics so I'm always happy to gas on about science with people. Also a prequel and sequel-trilogy fan, hence the name. I guess you could always nickname me porgy if you wanted lol
Anyway I'm so glad I found this forum
