Paradigm shift

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Date: 14 November 2007 10:44:49

Thanks for the comments; and thanks especially, Kerensa, for the tip - I've googled for 'aspies' and come up with some interesting hits.

A number of sources have indicated that it may be difficult to obtain a diagnosis, especially for myself. And I'm wondering whether I want to go through with a process which may be difficult and long drawn out. Particularly, I wonder if I really want to be seeing a psychiatrist, in view of what has happened to me in the past. But those experiences are part of the reason why I do want to be diagnosed. In fact, I am now angry that throughout my times of being hospitalised, no-one seems to have thought to pursue the possibility that I might have Asperger's. All the time they were saying - this person is depressed for no reason, therefore there must be some chemical imbalance in his brain that is making him depressed, therefore all we have to do is to fill him up with drugs. And I was thinking - I have a reason for being depressed - but, of course, I couldn't articulate that reason because I couldn't see that they were seeing the world differently from me.