charlotte

welcome. where you from

welcome. have you thought of attending autscape this year you are like to find great knowlege on all this there. also the autism show

i am going this will be my 5th time cant wait

it will take time

in has one but this can vary from year to year. there is also a form to find and out more and where people just generally chat. if you can find a professional who is go and you can see for a while on nhs or pay for then great. i know the national autistic society have a befriending service. forums can also be good for talking about that kind of stuff especially this type of one

i am guessing here. but is your concern due to experience of negative response from others about things you have asked or hearing others have had that response? I get this making it hard to ask things so save them up or forget or overload with things, though i am now slowly learning through a few friends really mean nothing is silly to ask they respect my aspergers.

i have had the whole what if thought many a time, this has faded with time and my acceptance of my aspergers. as for help and support from professionals the best i have found is through friends. professionals seem few and far between some of my friends are great and in relevant fields. martial arts, and autscape have been the best things for me. booking is open now for this years autscape and am just hoping i get to go

you are far from alone in having a childhood seeing multiple mental health service people i have been there to from about the age of nine. i can understand how you are feeling to a degree since your diagnosis and very similar. i recognised i likely had aspergers and requested the assessment and knew following a pre assessment before full diagnosis. the thing i have found most helpful is getting aspergers united free form the national autistic society and attending autscape each year,

hello and welcome. i am charlotte i am 31 and was diagnosed 6 years ago i come from east sussex but am living in essex at present where i am at uni.

have you thought about attending a support/social group know autism east anglia run them. or coming to autscape this year?

i had mine done at the maudsley hospital in london it was about £1400. the national autistic society may know of somewhere nearer to you. if you are doing it privately it is just a question of booking it dont need referral unless system has changed.

at may well be things will start to show up at school as she gets older that is what happened with me. could you afford to get a private assessment? where do you live?

i know what you mean and there are times when my routines frustrate me. i have found though rather than do it all at once do different activities with the same people or a person who has understanding or do the same activity with different people.

the only reasoning i have managed to make to my seemingly non-sense routines is they are kind of self help for me reducing anxiety and creating security.

so you are not that far from me then i am in colchester. i had an initial assessment by a lady who the national autistic society recommended 1st as like you i could not get it done on the NHS and had to go privately. i was the one who wanted the assessment because i thought i had asperger's any way. at the time though my mental health was not good and although i was pleased and relived as it meant my past now made sense, i was also shocked in a way that it was really true and it took a while to come to terms with. now most of the time i would say i have excepted it as part of me and that i would not be me with out it. i have come a very long way since then. there are odd days though when i just hate it very very rare though.

hello and welcome I was diagnosed 5 years ago, am 30 and from east sussex but living in essex at present as at university there. where are you from

do you have any living family or friends around how could tell what you were like before the head injury?

welcome where are you from?

have not a clue but would like to know

i live inderpendantly and have worked am studying at uni at present in Essex so have no time to work

welcome where are you from

i am aware of the conection with hypermobility HMS and EDS. I have them all. the conection i would like to know more about is related to these with ASD.

my thinking on the chatterbox event is that it is to do with multiple changes happening at once, dealing with new experiences and something maybe not being what she expected. my thoughts on how to prepare her for such occasions would be through using pictures and if possible going to the location before hand maybe just to meet some people and have a look around or even just going to the building and outside talking about with her when and why you will be going there. maybe a visual timetable/calendar of such events (lots on google images). things like this may lessen her anxieties in such situations and may also help you.

is this something she always does when going to nursery or just as it was a special day and things were different when she got there?

I am interested by his informing of a connection between between HMS and ASD as i have both but have never heard of this and would be very interested to find out more. I was formally diagnosed in london by Professor Grahame who was extremely good and worth seeing if you can, though prior to this many physio's has mentioned it. a good web site is http://www.hypermobility.org/ and yes i admit when i read this at the end of last year after my first flair-up where no one seemed to be able to fully explain what was going on it was scary but all made sense and further sense was made by pro Grahame and my specialist physio (both in different parts of the country interestingly). The important factor for me was realising yes it is life long but severity is related to type and personal case. hydrotherapy, tenns machine and innersoles so far have had the biggest impact on me regarding symptom control and improvement with medication for me having little affect on symptoms but causing side affects. saying that though there are many others i could try if i were to flair up again to that point and i would also consider eg acupuncture. I am aware here i could be overwhelming you and remember how much at the time it was for me to take in though did explain my symptoms fully. feel free to message me privately if you like there are also many groups on facebook though a lot are american there are some uk ones. take care