Great ideas, but I'm a little cynical about their implementation. As an example, I'm too old for diagnosis to do me any good; given that there are no services for adults or anyone high functioning, all diagnosis can do is get me stigmatized - or farther destroy my morale. (It's nice to know that with much careful coaching, I might have managed to live and work in a sheltered environment ;-) It's particularly nice from the vantage point of having coped, more or less, out in the real world with neither shelter nor special training.) So _why_ encourage people who might have AS to seek diagnosisWhat I'd like to see a lot more of is useful, non-stigmatizing material aimed at adults - and not at NT friends, relatives, and caretakers. It's hard to even find space to vent, that isn't crawling with poor wounded friends and parents that get so terribly hurt by my failure to consider their feelings ;-)) If I try to "consider their feelings" they blame me for not doing so acceptably; if I don't, they blame me for aggressive insensitivity. The
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