Reason & Support of BRASS
No matter
what one's age of discovery, awareness brings answers.
Support and coming to terms with one self allows children
and adults to say, "I am who I am, and I like ME! I am more
than a label and I am ok and do not need to be fixed. I
LIKE me just the way I am." In addition, it will allow
other's around the ASPIE to suddenly say, “There is a reason
he/she behaves this way! He/she is not doing it just to
drive me crazy!”
It is important that children and
adults understand that they have AS and how their own
individual AS affects their outlook on life and others,
starting their journey to self-discovery. Proper diagnosis
and early intervention have proven very helpful to young
children. While adolescents and adults diagnosed with
Asperger Syndrome relatively late in their development may
have a more difficult time replacing a previously-developed
concept of themselves with what they now know to be a more
accurate description, discovery that one has Asperger
Syndrome doesn't lead to a permanent doom-and-gloom
outcome. There are many positives with AS, and many well
known individuals who have had AS—it is time to focus on the
positives instead of the negative.
It is
interesting to note that often those who know and accept
their diagnosis of AS will often start counting their
birthdays from the time of understanding the situation.
This is similar to the Alcoholics Anonymous counting
birthdays from the day the individual pledges to go “dry”.
It show that even though the official label is assigned to a
person, that individual and the family around him/her will
need to continue to read, learn, and grow together.
Contact with a support group like CO-BRASS will allow you to
continue to access all the newest information and further
your own understanding along the way.
This
website is designed for Central Oregon Community and we hope
to network with others in our community and State of Oregon
to make your journey a little bit easier and to offer
support as we climb the mountain of AS together. It is a
tough world out there and we need to do a better job or
organizing, communicating, sharing resources and working
together. We will all benefit from this cooperation.
Welcome to C.O. - B.R.A.S.S.
(Central Oregon--Bend Redmond Asperger Syndrome Support). We
are looking forward to getting to know you.
What is AS
Official
Criteria for Asperger Syndrome
Basic
Characteristics
Traits by Age
Truth and AS
Family and AS
Should You
Seek a Diagnosis?
Reason and Support for BRASS
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"I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical.
Even God had some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin."
~ Jerry Newport