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Recent content by Hope88

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    What Do You Do For Work?

    Well I work in a clothes shop and have worked my way up to key holding the shop. It was really difficult at first as I was waiting for my diagnosis and was being prescribed so many anti depressants that I felt completely out of control and made a few mistakes with paper work. It was only when...
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    Age of Diagnosis

    I was 25. Feel like the system let me down as for years when I tried to find out why I felt different I kept getting diagnosed with depression but it was really shut downs and meltdowns. Going back over school reports from when I was 7 the teacher kept mentioning "autistic tendencies" but...
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    Favorite Aspie-expressive song?

    Vnv nation- illusion. It sounds like a bit of a dark song but it reminds me that I am who I am and I shouldn't have to change because society thinks I should, and that I am never as alone as I feel. I know its hard to tell, How mixed up you feel, Hoping what you need is behind every door, Each...
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    Have you come to terms with having your ASD?

    I got diagnosed in July last year and I think I am still trying to get used to the idea that I have Aspergers, it certainly beats being told I have depression all the time. The main problem is that there is little to no help where I live. I managed to get in touch with someone from an Aspergers...
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    Panic in response to scent?

    For me freshly peeled oranges do it every time. It feels like it's clinging to me and in the past I have actually run to get away from the smell. I even start retching :/ The worst part was school lunches, you were stuck next to certain people for the entire year and one kid had oranges every...
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    Health woes

    Thank you for the replies, I suppose I'll have to go through with it. Sadly I am from England, at the moment they send you a letter just before you turn 25 but I have been putting it off after they sent me an information dvd. It put me right off and so I decided not to go. I moved recently and...
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    Health woes

    Hello, my name is Emma, I'm 26 and I was diagnosed with High Functioning Aspergers Syndrome in July of last year. After not getting any help, I decided to try asking about my predicament on here to see if anyone could be of help. I recently got a letter inviting me to go for a smear/pap test...
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