Lisa, sure hope 2005 is an easier year for you. Do let us know
how you are doing, even when life looks gloomy. Honestly!

Lisa, choose carefully the providers you use. I stopped going to
a young HMO doctor who so botched taking my BP that he told
me he might have to put me on high-blood-pressure meds if he
kept getting high readings. I told him (gently) that I have a difficult
BP, thinking that might cue him to avoid pumping the cuff up to a
degree that delivers false readings. Didn't work. He told me that
older people (I'm 61 and obese) get higher BP as they age. So I
stopped going to see him. No sense in seeing someone who is
ignorant. Spelling a dx wrong suggests to me that your service
providers are not safe for you to see or accept suggestions from.
Would you take drugs from someone who did not know that
Hans Asperger is the one who described Asperger's? But the
'Net is full of stuff spelled 'Asberger' and I gather it's a common
typo. I had to spell the word when I went to a place to register as
an Aspie, because the receptionist did not recognize the word. It
turned out the agency cannot accept a client who was not dx'd by
age 16, so I was refused as a client. Oh, first they asked me if I
had any records from age 16 or earlier, as if I might have failed to
notice a diagnosis. Funny how folks think an Aspie is a dolt!

Not funny. But it seems to be part of the burden of being Aspie,
to be treated as a marginal thinker. Well, this Aspie did not keep
on going to a young doctor-in-training who thought I was a
candidate to accept HBP meds from him. <g> -Zer
See also: http://www.as-if.org.uk/criteria.htm
Discovery criteria for aspie by Attwood and Gray

--- In Aspies-Anon#218, Lisa the Dreamer <unique@v...> wrote:
> Hi all, I haven't posted for a long time because my life has
been too hard with the addition of a car accident 6 months ago
that we are still recovering from and I am still trying to get
services for myself to help get my life to not be so overwhelming.
> But anyways, one of my service providers spelled Aspergers
with a b instead of a p and I told him it was with a p and he
insisted it was with a b because he saw it spelled on a flyer with
a b and kept using a b. It was very annoying and very upsetting
to me....
> ...Basically I need help reframing into a positive light my Aspie
characteristics that people label something negative. Are there
any websites out there that do this sort of thing? It's really
important for me to feel good about myself as an Aspie because
I can't be anything else! :)
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Lisa the Dreamer
> http://www.visi.com/~unique