So, today I saw the psychologist person....

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And he basically said that, while he'd like to meet with me at least a few more times to make suresure, he can fairly safely say that, yes, I'm an aspie. Nothing I didn't already know, but there were a few stressful moments of doubt :)

And to think, for some, the stress would be that they might actually be autistic, not the other way around. Of course, for me to say otherwise would pretty much mean saying that I was wrong my entire life when I saw that I wasn't quite normal, and I saw that ages before I knew about autism at all. So, apparently, did my parents, but they never told me. I kinda wish they had, I might've liked to have known. *shrugs*

Actually, my mom was very happy about that because she and my dad did try to get me diagnosed as, well, anything correct when I was younger, and they'd (psychologist type people, not my parents) apparently either completely misdiagnose me as something that I clearly wasn't, or they would think I didn't need any sort of diagnosis because, after all, for all they knew I was a smart kid who read a lot, and maybe I didn't speak too clearly but that was obviously because of my very crooked teeth, and as soon as that was fixed and I had speech therapy, my frustration would end, I'd stop having tantrums, and I'd be social because I'd be able to speak. So it's nice being belatedly vindicated.

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This is good.

"Actually, my mom was very happy about that because she and my dad did try to get me diagnosed as, well, anything correct when I was younger, and they'd (psychologist type people, not my parents) apparently either completely misdiagnose me as something that I clearly wasn't, or they would think I didn't need any sort of diagnosis because, after all, for all they knew I was a smart kid who read a lot,"

- I find this very similar to my experience (and my family's, of course!). Though there was only one mental health person in my case who said I needn't be diagnosed as anything, the rest maintained a need for diagnosis. But they couldn't work anything out.

I have found out the other day that if I got a diagnosis of AS, there is a likelihood that my voting rights would be taken away. Good for you that you're living in a more normal country.

*intensely hates the country she's living in for a minute*

*stops intensely hating the country she's living in*

I hope there are no regulations such as this in Israel. I don't wanna move there happily, only to find myself in trouble. Nyah!

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Just out of curiousity, is there any reason you never say which country you live in? *huggles* Must be a bad 'un if you can lose voting rights over something like AS. Or not a bad one, just a less enlightened one.