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Date: 13 November 2007 07:06:50
As I continued to read "the Deafening Sound of Silent Tears" yesterday, I learned that people with Asperger Syndrome tend to be reliant on routine, and I thought, "I'm a bit like that." As ever, Google is your friend, and I found the website of the National Autistic Society (or, to be more accurate, I found the page I linked to earlier). As I read through the characteristics of someone with Asperger, my eyes pricked with tears; I said to myself, over and over again, "That's me." I fought back the tears, because I was going to be on duty in 20 minutes, and went out for a quick walk.
Since then, so many pieces of the jigsaw have fallen into place that I feel that I shall have to seek a diagnosis. And when I told my wife this morning, her first response was to wonder if our son, too, may have Asperger. Possibly difficult times ahead, but if we can obtain some clarification, in the long run it can only help ...