FriedFrogLegs
Well-Known Member
I've always been very different and have had a hard time relating and socializing with others. I knew I was far from normal and spent many of my teenage years searching for a label. Fast forward to my thirties I'm a wife and a mother and my husband is a saint for putting up with me. Last night I stumbled onto Temple Grandin's TED Talk on the three different kinds of thinkers, I saw a lot of myself in her description of pattern thinkers. I can't function during the day if I don't have music playing. I become quite agitated if it is messed with. There are many other things but I'm trying not to ramble too much. So in my bid to find info on pattern thinkers on understand myself and just maybe learn coping skills, I stumble onto an aspie blog. It has a link to the aspie/nt quiz that I take out of pure curiosity. I'm floored when it gives me an aspie score of 165/200 and an NT score of 48/200. This explains soo soo much. I could never fit in school and even now I avoid social interactions even with ppl I care deeply about due to my awkwardness. I've since taken a separate Asperger's test that also said "Yep, you just might be an aspie." I am having a really hard time processing this. I'm relieved to finally have answers and I look forward to learn how you all have learned to cope. But what does this mean for my small child whose mother is far from NT?