Aspies For Freedom

Hi guys.

Some of you know I was diagnosed with AS late last year. I'm now wondering if I'm supposed to be doing anything in particular, other than just getting on with the day to day stuff like going to work and managing my domestic and family responsibilities.

Think a diagnosis on paper is mainly meant to give you more available services or help to cope with what you may struggle with related to your condition.

Yeah. But apart from that is there anything Aspies should embrace or avoid? Because it seems to me I'm just supposed to go on with life as usual, which kind of makes me wonder if getting diagnosed has made any difference at all. I guess I hoped that if I found out why I was different then there might be some things I could do to make life a little easier or something.

Meet other aspies?

Or have you done that already?

I've met them here. I wouldn't know where to go to met them in the real world.

You know how treatment services in the United States is.  You have to have an excuse to get any help at all.  God forbid the state waste a dime on you if you didn't really need it.

You gotta give them a hand up, not a hand out

They gotta pull themselves up by their own bootstraps

They gotta vote Republican too- (groan)

I'll be glad when Bush goes back to Crawford and has a cookout as a private citizen, and I am starting to think Obama can do it better, but I'll keep an open mind until I read Hillary and Edward's sites.

Watching Sicko with Michael Moore, I was ashamed to be an American.  If I didn't have an emotional attachment being USA born and raised, I'd emigrate to Canada on principle.

1.  Much better gay rights (they wanna get married, let them dammit, it's their life)
2.  Better health insurance all around
3.  Yeah, 70% tax rate, but it is what Mom and Dad preached, priorities for the many over the luxuries for the few
4.  Much more lenient stance on smoking weed for those who do that stuff
5.  More cooperative foreign policy, like Obama, less in your face
6.  Maybe more eco friendly and green energy than America, Kyoto?

I actually live in Australia. But if you guys like the kind of stuff that Michael Moore does you should read Deer Hunting with Jesus. I'm reading it at the moment and it's brilliant.

http://www.scribepublications.com.au/boo...gwithjesus

I wish there were... Basically, the diagnosis will help you understand why you think the way you do, and it can be used as a way to find people similar to yourself, or as a way to describe some of the reasons for your actions to other people. Plus it means that when you have particular issues, you have access to a group of people that are more likely to have gone through the same things, and might be able to offer advice.

But that aside, it pretty much is life as usual. You're still the same person as before, after all...

On a side note, whereabouts in Aus are you? Myself and Bella are trying to get an offline AFF group started in Brisbane...

I'm in Melbourne.

The diagnosis has helped me to stop lamenting my past mistakes so much and its helped me to stop giving myself such a hard time for being the way I am.

And that is what you should continue to do.

Creasy - I'm in Australia too... Brisbane... And I know around here there are quite a few support groups and book stores dedicated to Aspergers.  Maybe meeting others in real life through support groups might be an option.

Sonic Boom, White_Shadow_Ninja and I are in Adelaide.

  I need to remember to check again before I post... oddly enough in the time I took my question was answered.