Autism

Answering Your Questions

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Hi There

So on the 14 of May, I decided to let you guys know me a little bit better. So I decided to post a
Question and Answers blog!

Actually Autistic Blogs List asked:

“I most enjoy reading about personal experiences related to being Autistic. There’s never an oversupply of personal accounts because we are all unique.“

Great Question! My experience from having Aspergers Syndrome would be some what complicated. I didn’t get diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome until I was 22. Before that, I would start to shout and cry if I didn’t like anything, but I didn’t know why. Anger would just come out of no where and I’d pick it out on my family.

I suppose the first sign was when I started school. My speech was delayed and I was delayed at walking. Being in the 90’s they didn’t have much resources about Autism or Aspergers Syndrome, so my school just put it down as a mild learning disability and emotional and behavioural needs. So I spent all of my childhood, teens and being an adult not knowing that I am Autistic!

When I finally did get diagnosed in early 2014, I hated the fact that I Aspergers dictated my life. I’ve spent so many years having meltdown after meltdown and didn’t know what it was. I felt so angry because I felt like I was let down. I kept thinking “Why didn’t I get diagnosed when I was in school?” For 5 whole months, I felt myself becoming more and more angry. I also kept searching google about traits of Aspergers Syndrome – Which is a big no no!

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Its never to late to chase your dreams

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Have you ever dreamt of doing something then went of to persue your dream and then someone knocked you back and told you that they think it ‘might be too hard for you’ or ‘it might cause you stress and you might become very sick’? Of course, this happened to me in the past, it was time for me to move on from it so I could focus on the person I am today.

It was kind of a blessing if you think about it! If I wasn’t told to ‘not do that course because it may make you very stressed and make you sick’, I would not have had ‘anger issues’ that would have led me to get a diagnoses of Aspergers Syndrome.

Even though you may not see it at the time, it will all work out at the end. I didn’t give up on my ‘dream job’, I just chose not to make a career out of it. Maybe that person many years ago was just looking out for me at the end of the day. I did feel angry, but accepting the past for what it is now is a dream.

I all ways wanted to be the once, happy bubbly young girl I once was, and now that I am that person again, thats all that matters.

I suppose the moral of this is to go with the flow. You can’t just rock the boat, you’ve to take it all the way even with the bumps in the road! There were plenty of bumps and pot holes for me to become the person I am today, and I am proud of myself for getting myself through that time of my life.

Facts about Aspergers

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Considering that April is Autism Awareness Month, I thought I’d blog about some facts about Aspergers.

  • Aspergers Syndrome was named after the founder, Hans Asperger.
  • Hans Asperger done experiments on children that had been tested for Autism. Most children had some milder traits of Autism, and had a high IQ, so were nick named ‘Little professors’.
  • Due to a fire, most, or not all of the files Hans kept, were destroyed
  • Some of the files were found by a woman
  • Due to the files being in German, the woman got her husband to translate the files. She later regretted this.
  • People who have Aspergers, are often called ‘Aspies’ for short.
  • In 2013, Aspergers was removed as a diagnoses
  • Aspergers Syndrome now comes under the umbrella of Autism Spectrum Disorder


Its OK not to be OK

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From time to time we tend to get overwhelmed. I myself got overwhelmed only recently. I knew I was a bit off on that day, I was in my centre. Instead of lashing out, I said to my keyworker that I was ‘going home’. While ‘going home’ I decided to go to Insomia (sorry spell mistake) I decided to treat myself to a cookie hot chocolate and a blueberry muffin.

While sitting alone, my mind was becoming a lot clearer and it was easier for me to think. I was trying to figure out what made me to get overwhelmed. Later figuring out back in the centre, it was my diagnoses of Aspergers. I never understood why I wasn’t diagnosed when I was small. I figured that maybe that the resources back in the late 90’s or the early 00’s would be different.

I also wondered would my life be any different if I was diagnosed? Would I know how to tell the difference between a meltdown and uncontrollable anger? I properly would have known the difference, but at least I would have known how to handled it better if I was diagnosed at the age of 5.

Moral of the day is to never give up on something. Dont give up just because you have a diagnoses of something, because at the end of the day, there is help out there.