Undiagnosed Report post Posted January 28, 2018 Hi I'm pretty convinced I have aspergers, so is my psychologist. I'm 23, and I extremely identify with videos people with it have put up. I struggle looking people in the eye, i have few extreme interests and hobbies. I struggle with friends. etcetera. Is getting diagnosed worth it? I don't see any sort of support system helping me but will i be pleasantly surprised? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
katzmum Report post Posted January 28, 2018 Hello, My husband was diagnosed as a mature adult. He said it helped him to make sense of some of his life experiences and it helped him to explain to other people why he might misinterpret some form of communication. Where we live, there is a Specialist Autism Service which provides social skills groups and employment mentoring and I am currently exploring some links from the NAS about counselling for my husband. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Undiagnosed Report post Posted January 28, 2018 2 hours ago, katzmum said: Hello, My husband was diagnosed as a mature adult. He said it helped him to make sense of some of his life experiences and it helped him to explain to other people why he might misinterpret some form of communication. Where we live, there is a Specialist Autism Service which provides social skills groups and employment mentoring and I am currently exploring some links from the NAS about counselling for my husband. Thanks for responding, Hearing someone outside my circle talk about it helps. Thanks again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grimmaspy66 Report post Posted January 29, 2018 (edited) Getting a diagnosis is vital and getting occupational therapy will help, but only you can put everything in context. How do you experience emotions, do volatile emotional reactions urge your decisions and actions. Do your compulsions urge you do things or avoid things? Do you find that you miss-read people and situations to the extent that you really don't know what's going on around you or with the people around you? The best thing I learned is 'presence' or being in the present moment. Remember all your senses are heightened compared to neuro-typical people and you can use them to wake out of the constant thought stream. Experience sounds, touch, vision, the sensation of your own breathing (without any analysis) to break out of thought. From there I found most of what goes on in my head becomes much clearer and I could challenge compulsions and thought based emotional reactions. I can see my thoughts and urges from an external POV and I can dismiss them as the product of miss-firing neurons. I don't suffer as much from depression any more. I came to my current mental state, purely through watching Eckhart Tollie videos on YouTube. Good luck to anyone who wants to give it a try and by all means contact me if you are interested more Edited January 29, 2018 by Grimmaspy66 Repeated vword Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites