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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Proof_Impact_6009 on 2026-05-13 01:08:11+00:00.

For context: I am a 19-year-old male and I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome 4 years ago.

The said report contains a long list of traits that the psychiatrist identified during my assessment session. While it does mention a few positive ones, but a vast majority of them are negative. The one I would mention for all is "Real two-way conversation was hardly possible". This strikes me especially hard because I had thought that verbal communication was something I was comparably good at.

Overall the report makes me feel like my condition is significantly worse than I had thought before, and it only contains the traits that could be discovered during an hour-long session. In addition, this session took place at the time when I was taking sertraline, which seems to have mitigated some of the traits (this might have meeb just a placebo effect, but I feel like I had the best time of my life so far when I was taking it). Since then I've only got more isolated and my social skills have declined even further. Now I seriously fear that I would be dependent on others' benevolence in one way or another for my entire life, which is also hard to swallow because I hate the feeling of being a mere burden.

I don't even know why I am posting it here. Maybe I secretly want someone to console me or to challenge my point of view.

Thanks in advance for every polite answer.