When my son was diagnosed with Asperger's my wife decided that I shared a lot of the characteristics and I was later diagnosed. It is tough on both of us, My son in school and sports and me with career choices. A lot of people don't understand our humor and don't realize how seriously we take things.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Although we have Aspergers, We do have feelings.
Aspergers and Autism is very hard for most people to understand as we are all unique in our own way. Although we all carry the same traits there are not two of us exactly alike however the one thing that we all share are our feelings and emotions. Although we have a hard time expressing our feelings and most people think that we don't have any that is completely not the case as we do have feelings, and usually stronger than the average person, we just don't know how to show it and therefore usually choose not to show it. A lot of times it usually takes us a while to process the situation that has happened and later on, either a few hours later or even a few days after the fact you may see us express our feelings completely out of the blue. So just because we don't express ourselves please don't think that we do not have feelings because the littlest things in life mean so much to us, what you may think as something small usually means the world to us. David has so many items that he treasures dearly and although we may think they are nothing they mean so much to him, and also the same goes for me. With this said please think before you act toward us as we do like to be included although we might not fit in. Before you leave us out of any of your events please give us the opportunity to tell you whether or not we want to participate as there are many activities that David or me do not care to participate in however as far as me I feel that you should at least give me the opportunity to tell you that I do not want to be a part of you group and the same usually goes for David. Before you speak out of line toward us please think of what you are saying as the way we think is usually literal and sometimes we may take your comments the wrong way. So in ending I am just going to ask everyone to remember before you act toward us, please think of your actions and how you would feel if those exact actions happened to you, for our feelings toward those actions usually are twice as hard on us than it is on most people.
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