justageek

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No concerns for my kids, they seem to be just as crazy as everyone elses, its more a case of if I should be more aware to keep an eye on them. With regards to my birth, I honestly dont know, my mother certainly had undiagnosed mental issues, she was a compulsive liar, a hypochondriac and all in all a bit of a cow, she isolated herself from the rest of the family and as a result they dont really know me, although since my mums death many have commented on the amount of time i spent in my room and just put it down to keeping away from her. Both my parents have passed away so there is nobody I can ask about me growing up, but I do have issues with my child hood as I doubt many of my own memories, when you live with a liar, you come to believe that their stories are true, and when you find out they are not it casts doubt on what you think you remember.

Thanks for the replies, I don't think I really need a diagnosis, and I don't want to claim DLA so that's not an issue. What I really want to learn about are the coping mechanisms and how to deal with things, maybe I'm wrong but surely there are methods I can use to get around my issues? Is there much support for adults? its clearly the social side of things I have trouble with, and the more i think about it the more I can see how this might have effected my family, is it hereditary? or am I likely to nurture my kids in to my ways? If I don't go go down the diagnosis route and just try to deal with things myself does that make me a fake? The problem is i don't know where to start, I'm kind of feeling a bit stunned at the moment. But more importantly I have to know... whats with the rabbit?

Hello all, not sure where to start so I might as well just go ahead and introduce myself. I am 32 years old Dad of 3, run a internet marketing company, and suspect I may have aspergers syndrome. I have always been a bit of a geek, would rather deal with something technical that other people, and never really thought much of it, through out my teenage years I pretty much lived in my bedroom to avoid social contact and throughout school I was bullied by one group, then another, then another. I dont like talking to people, unless its a subject I know, and there are quite a few subjects I know as I tend to become quite obsessed with learning about things, so I'll spend hours and hours reading up on the latest technical advances and just hope and pray that when I am around people there will be something in the conversation that lets me talk about what I know, apart from that I'll just sit quietly in the corner. My wife has joked a few times that I remind her of Spencer Reed from Criminal minds, technically intelligent but a bit of an idiot when it comes to people, I tend to take things too literally and miss the joke, or say things that while logically correct dont always go down to well. A while ago a woman with an aspergers child said I had aspergers tendencies and I just laughed it off but more recently we have become quite close with a family with 2 aspergers children and again she;s pointing out the similarity's. I decided to do an couple of online tests and scored highly both times fitting the profile of aspergers, and the more I read about it the more it fits with my life, it explains relationships and friendships that have failed without me really knowing why. As it stands at the moment I'm pretty happy, I dont have any close friends, but I get on ok with my colleges, I'm reasonably successful in my chosen career, but since I did the tests this has been hanging over me, I keep reading about it, wondering if there are things that I should be doing, or second guessing myself before I speak, I sometimes wish I could get away with just emailing people in the office rather than actually talking to them. Anyway, ramble over, I suppose Im just looking for some direction, is there any benefit from going to the doctors and getting a diagnosis, or as I've got through 30 years so far might I just read up a bit and try to learn some people skills. On the flip side, I'm also afraid that I don't have aspergers, it seems to answer so many questions, but if I'm wrong Im just left with questions. Thanks for reading. justageek