Hi TJ, great to have you back!!!

And title or no title, everyone's part of the community (here's the LAST place there should be discrimination by anyone, right??!!! ) and we care about you, want to know how it's going and want to be here to support you. So keep on posting, yes??!!
And real sorry you've been finding things so hard, thank you for letting us in on that, hoping we can help just a bit

About the assessment............yes some of those traits can overlap with Aspergers, so just treat them as traits for now until you know a bit more, hey?? And work on what makes things a bit easier for you. After all two people with Aspergers can have a similar trait whereas what helps one person with that might not help another person. Often going to be some things that interlink/help most people but you're still an individual right??!! So a bit of experimentation maybe, like when you've found earphones work for you in some situations??

And the medication..........well they're discovering new benefits/uses for all kinds of different medications now and using them where they may not have previously so might be the case there. If it works and limited side effects great, but if not then more to try
Make sure you raise any queries/concerns with your pdoc though, no just taking yourself off it!!!
If you're going to be coming off it, I'd say to gradually come off it or change it under the pdoc's guidance.

And you know I'm going to be telling you that talking about SI and suicidal ideation is NOT complaining or moaning, right??
It's hurting, it's real, it matters!!! So please keep on talking with us if things are hard.

And getting your poems published!!!!! Scratch that "nothing special" right now!!!! That is awesome!!!!!! GO YOU!!!!!!!



Alison