One of the reasons I mention my Aspie dx is to get better service.
I'm mentioning it to health-care professionals, to see if I can get
a less brisk treatment. I say that I need more time to process
info and I am not sure that I'm a good advocate for my interests.
Some people are hearing me, writing this info into a file, so that
future contacts MAY be handled with care of my needs. It is a
learning process that reminds me to be more patient with myself
than I've been in the past. I need to remind myself. It helps. -Zer
(who is learning to cherish my own Aspie traits, as special gifts)

--- In Aspies-Anon#284, Lisa the Dreamer <unique@v...> wrote:
> ... I don't have a disorder. I dislike that word intensely....
> ...I generally don't tell just anyone that I have Asperger....
>... it still takes me several years to realize that a person is taking
advantage of me or abusing me and by that time I am so
enmeshed in the relationship that it takes the help of a lot of
other people to help me get out of it.
> Now I am to the point where I am afraid to trust anyone. ...
>... Sometimes I just want to run away and hide.
> Lisa the Dreamer