The Conclusion, Do I Look Like Raymond Babbit to You?

[cinema_babe]

Before you even begin reading this, stop. Below are my feelings, belies and attitudes about "being on the autism spectrum". Some of it is not soft and fuzzy and will irk people. Big surprise

Comments

[tisiphone]

As a person who also has some weird social quirks and some interaction styles that are probably wrong, I think I would probably be similarly furious and disbelieving if offered such a diagnosis. Good for you for fighting it.

[quirkytizzy]

Sometimes the professionals aren't always so professional. I think a lot of them get caught up in the waves of patients who come in determined that they have THIS ONE SPECIFIC DIAGNOSIS and so they start thinking everyone has it.

And ugh, I hate "cybercondriacs" too. I've met way too people who are all "I read this one a site I have this, oh woe is me, what, treatment? Oh god no, if I get treated suddenly I won't have an excuse to whine about this thing I probably don't actually have but want to because it's cool and gives me an excuse to be an asshole."

But that's a personal pet peeve.

I'm glad you've found someone whose working with you instead of railroading you into a specific diagnosis. That's important.

[ashbet]

I think that your therapist is onto something -- when Asperger's first became publicly well-known, I wondered if I was on the high-functioning end, specifically because of the major social problems I had as a child, teen, and young adult (I always felt like there was a glass wall between me and other people, that there were sub-conversations going on that I couldn't understand, I'm absolutely deaf to subtle hints and subtext, and I was often ostracized when *trying* to fit in, because there was something about me that people found offputting -- I could never quite get it RIGHT, I'd laugh too loud or at the wrong time, or what I was saying would be somehow inappropriate, and I talk too much and use too many goddamn words