Ooops I am not first in the thread after all, but the special ed teacher from a few comments back who longed for eye contact from her dad for decades. I just read over everything in the whole thread, including the original article, and am very very grateful for this supportive site. The night I wrote my first comment I was bawling, and had just found out that a close but very challenging - and chronically suicidal - friend had just been diagnosed with Asbergers. I knew he was ALOT like my dad, and this seemed to confirm for me my own suspicions, and make my very real and lifelong greif come together in some way. So glad for the chance to put that together then, and to reflect on my own recovery now. Thanks again to everyone here.
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Ooops I am not first in the thread after all, but the special ed teacher from a few comments back who longed for eye contact from her dad for decades. I just read over everything in the whole thread, including the original article, and am very very grateful for this supportive site. The night I wrote my first comment I was bawling, and had just found out that a close but very challenging - and chronically suicidal - friend had just been diagnosed with Asbergers. I knew he was ALOT like my dad, and this seemed to confirm for me my own suspicions, and make my very real and lifelong greif come together in some way. So glad for the chance to put that together then, and to reflect on my own recovery now. Thanks again to everyone here.
January 12, 2011 - 12:41amThis Comment
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