PercyZ
New Member
Hi,
I’m a 53 year old male, in the UK, and for a number of years have considered I may have autistic tendencies.
8’I’m carried out, the somewhat outdated, test consisting of 50 questions and score 39 which tends to agree with my self assessment.
After a failed marriage when I was younger, in now been married for 15 years to my second wife.
Some traits that make me suspect autism in some form are that:
1. I have no person in my life that I would consider to be a friend. I have distanced myself from my sisters to the point I have no idea where they live, and, to be honest, don’t care. This doesn’t concern me.
2. I have quite an obsessive nature. E.g I have an interest in watches and now own over 60 and collected those in quick succession.
3. I have a strange relationship with death. It frustrates me when people show grief. “The person has gone, get over it” screams around in my head. This make it impossible for me to have empathy for a bereaved person so I generally stay quiet on the subject.
There are numerous other traits but I won’t bore you, the reader, any more at this time.
My life is going well and I am successful in my career so my question is, do I bother trying to get a diagnosis or is it simply just another label I shouldn’t bother about?
I’m a 53 year old male, in the UK, and for a number of years have considered I may have autistic tendencies.
8’I’m carried out, the somewhat outdated, test consisting of 50 questions and score 39 which tends to agree with my self assessment.
After a failed marriage when I was younger, in now been married for 15 years to my second wife.
Some traits that make me suspect autism in some form are that:
1. I have no person in my life that I would consider to be a friend. I have distanced myself from my sisters to the point I have no idea where they live, and, to be honest, don’t care. This doesn’t concern me.
2. I have quite an obsessive nature. E.g I have an interest in watches and now own over 60 and collected those in quick succession.
3. I have a strange relationship with death. It frustrates me when people show grief. “The person has gone, get over it” screams around in my head. This make it impossible for me to have empathy for a bereaved person so I generally stay quiet on the subject.
There are numerous other traits but I won’t bore you, the reader, any more at this time.
My life is going well and I am successful in my career so my question is, do I bother trying to get a diagnosis or is it simply just another label I shouldn’t bother about?