I think you should . . . . .

I hear alot about parents who are uncertain about telling their child that they have some form of ASD, as an adult with aspergers (who only very recently got diagnosed)i think the answer you will get from me is "YES OF COURSE WHY WOULDNT YOU !!, my reason for this is a simple one : i have spent my entire life feeling different, different from my entire family, different from the people i meet, the places i go, i have spent almost twenty nine years feeling like i belong on another planet and never knew why, this has led to some serious aggression issue's, emotional issues, attempted suicide, depression, constant unhappiness, to name but a few, finding out i had aspergers was unreal, at first i was thinking what in the name of jaysus is that but then having it explained to me helped so much, i could suddenly look back and think yes theres one explained theres another explained, oh that explains that.. its crazy the way your life suddenly comes together after a diagnosis, now things have goten alot better since ive been diagnosed but my life was so confusing up until this point so i say this to you, save your child the hassle of all this confusion and emotional stress and help them along by telling them, help them come to terms with it, their going to understand that they dont fit in anyway, and that they dont go to the same classroom as the other kids, and that they have a busier schedule than the other kids so i think tell them and save you both the bother (you and your child) and the stress.