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“act normal “, “isn't that too hot?“, “come on!“, “do not let them bother you“ and “they don't want to annoy you, they want to get in touch with you” these sentences I heard very often during my childhood from many people and sometime I hear them also today
The meaning of some of these sentences are still unclear until today, but today I deal with them differently because I know why I grow up with them. The reason is easy I've got the Asperger syndrome and I act sometimes weird. I don't notice right away that something is too hot, there are some situations I can't do what I should do, I have problems to separate myself and I interpret my environment including the other people in a different way
When I was 19 years old, I got the diagnosis and I got to understand how to act with peculiarities while talking with other autistic persons and through my own exploring. I also understand in which situation and why I show these peculiarities.
But one thing bothers me for a long time: there are only a few people who have a good knowledge about autism and there are less people who have heard about Asperger's Syndrome. In the meantime, I can understand myself but that isn't really helpful when the other person is convinced that I'm strange. People who know that I'm autistic think that my behavior is normal and people who don't know about my autism think I'm strange in a way.
OK on this page I try to make Asperger's Syndrome more understandable for you and to show you how to live with it. Feel free to look around and when you have questions or suggestions, please contact me.
Why is the page called like that? In the past the people worked with autistic children but not with autistic adults. These children had severe autism. When the children grew up, it looked like they disappeared or became invisible
In this case I've got two problems. One is I'm not that autistic and the other is I'm more than 20 years old and that's way too old to be autistic.
When the people say about the problems of an autistic child “these problems will go away without doing something“ it isn't true. Autism don't go away, on the contrary, for many autistic people many difficulties start later on in their lives. The reason is that there is lack of information about life as an adult autistic person. There is also less helpful support. Support exist but very often it isn't made for autistic people and it isn't that helpful for them. When you need special support you need to fight for years until you can get the support you need.
And it's basically: the less autistic you are the more you have to work and the less you can have support.