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Old May 15, 2014, 07:47 AM
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never really got the hang of making friends so I had no support network. Mostly I just sort of dealt with it by detaching--playing lots of video games and writing lots of stories and basically ignoring everything else except the bare minimum of responsibility. These problems have kept me from working and past high school I experienced a general "failure to launch" because I felt like I couldn't handle the pressure of being an adult.
Might want to look into finding a pdoc/neurologist who is familiar with apergers. Some of what you are saying here is very similar to what I was dealing with my H for so many of our married years.....he's not Dx'ed either but the more I research the symptoms, the more I'm sure that was the problem with him in our marriage......& getting certain things in your mind......thinking opinions as fact can be part of that.

The mind is very complex & when we do not gain the skills we need growing up....we have to learn them as adults & it's a lot harder doing it then because we have to UNPROGRAM the old & REPROGRAM the new....& there are some disabilities that make that even more difficult.

Keep pushing to find a pdoc willing to do a thorough evaluation. My H went into an ADHD study as an adult & pdoc stopped at that....but also told H that he needed to go to a neurologist because he thought there was more wrong with him than JUST ADD.......& now after researching the asperger's, it's the only Dx where all the symptoms fit what I experienced with him.

He grew up in a family that moved all the time with his dad's engineering career, so not having friends seemed like a normal situation to come out of that....so some things do get masked by our growing up circumstances. Just insist on having a thorough evaluation that covers all the different possibilities & that they will be open through T to keep investigating so that you can know what is really going on in your mind.
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