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Asperger’s in Adults: You think you know the faces of Asperger’s Autism

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now we also fine when we meet with our talks with a view to see that this

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diagnosis and this history of impairments

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usually brings with it on my own grief response sometimes not so much or by the

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way

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sometimes the anger

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and agrees and and a depression

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are quite extreme and require a separate counseling sessions in their own right

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we have had a dolphin aviation ican extraordinarily angry

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about how could hurl your professionals have missed this diagnosis

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and the regrets they have about the failures that are now your rap praful

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the marriages lost a college degree never change

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the friendships that the accidents that they had maybe the injuries

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you can make up for that

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even though you make it dot rose two three four forty years of age

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there’s forty years later of your repre both forms that have mounted up

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so it’s no surprise that some of our adults are angry

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or depressed

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about not having been treated earlier

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when it might have made a difference in changing their life course

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so we will spend some time with these adults speaking with them about these

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feelings and helping them on earth summit cope with them

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but moving them onto the end stage of the grief reaction which is

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acceptance

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so that’s where we want to because you won’t engage treatment if you haven’t

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agreed and accepted your disorder