And how did you feel about it? My daughter is 8 and we have not told her yet. She also has ADHD and OCD, we have told her about those, but we don't know what to say about Asperger's. We are not sure we can explain it to her yet.
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I was 62. The diagnosis was a real revaluation to me. I felt like I knew myself better than I ever had. I have always known that I was different from everyone else, I just did not know how or why. The diagnosis explained why I am the way that I am. The only negative about it was being diagnosed so late in life. My life was not easy as a child and young adult. When I was a child, nobody knew much about AS or autism in general.
This brings up a point that I would like to make. I firmly believe that children should not only be told about their Asperger's Syndrome, but should get the proper counseling. This would help them better deal with their weakness's and more importantly, take advantage of their considerable strengths.
We are already providing counseling and supports for my daughter, and she is the Asperger's program in school. We don't tell her she has Asperger's, we just tell her that these teachers know how to teach her better than other teachers and the counseling we receive is so the whole family can learn to work together better.
I was 46...I am still trying to integrate this knowledge about myself a year and a half later. I would tell her ASAP. Many, many things would not have gone down the way they did had I understood. I could have focused n the gifts and not ben so heavily marked by misunderstanding. It is a good life, a beautiful life---with very avoidable tragedies that color my experience much more than the possible bewilderment of diagnosis would have been---which is transitory even in the case of this older gal. Love to her!And how did you feel about it? My daughter is 8 and we have not told her yet. She also has ADHD and OCD, we have told her about those, but we don't know what to say about Asperger's. We are not sure we can explain it to her yet.