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I've never been formally diagnosed with Aspergers/Autism, it has been suspected by a lot of people though.
I was curious if there is anyone here who I could talk to about it, to see if anyone can relate to what I go through with the symptoms that seem to fit with Aspergers/Autism. Thanks. |
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I believe that I have many of the symptoms of Aspergers but I was never diagnosed.
When I was in college an instructor in my paramedic class and later an instructor in my nursing class both told me I did not interact appropriately. My nursing instructor suggested I might have schizophrenia saying I displayed inappropriate emotions at times. I took a sociology class and began learning more about social interactions and communication and thirty years later I no longer have problems socially at least not to that degree. I told my Pdoc at my last appointment that I thought I had many symptoms of Aspergers but he laughed and said you don't have Aspergers because he knows me as the outspoken person who is not afraid to voice my opinion. He doesn't know how much I have changed. I told him we don't have time to discuss it now and I would make notes about my symptoms to talk about when we have more time. I think one of my high school teachers thought something was wrong with me but not sure what. There was a summer program at Berea College for disadvantaged high school students to attend a six week college class on campus to help them prepare for later college. He wrote a letter saying I was disadvantaged and I didn't understand why. Both of my parents worked and we were certainly low income but we had enough food and clothes and I got gifts at Christmas and there were other students who had less. Growing up in one of the poorest rural areas in WV I think was a disadvantage to most of the students so I don't know why he chose me for that opportunity. I was always a loner growing up though and spend most of my time alone now. I live with my son but seldom interact with people. I only recently learned that clumsiness is one of the symptoms. I have always been clumsy. I walk into walls going through doorways. In high school they tested all of the students asking us to do things like place pegs in holes on a board and stuff and they told me that my performance was very low but nobody suggested why. There is such a wide variation in the severity of symptoms that it is sometimes difficult to assess, I think. What has your experience been?
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Not sure if "experiences" would cover it, all I know is I've had the majority of the symptoms all my life & it would explain a few of my difficulties that haven't really been pin pointed as to why they exist.
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Thank you, I can relate to a lot of that.
I'm not sure how to go about this either. Any ideas? |
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plz plz PLZ see a profeshunal abowt ur conserns, insted of diagnosg urself!!! u sed urself we shuldn't do that........that bein sed, good luck
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I'm not self diagnosing, I am saying I suffer from many of the symptoms.
Shesh. Big difference. |
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Heh. Well, if you call it "suffering"... I know, I know, figure of speech; but I take these things literally and personally I think the vast majority of any suffering comes from a hostile world, not from the autism.
There are a lot of people with what you call "subclinical" symptoms; that is, people who have a lot of autistic traits but can't be diagnosed because they don't have significant problems in life that are due to those traits. (Mind you, I said "problems" not "suffering"; there's a difference...) Anyway, I bet there are probably about ten times as many broader-autism-phenotype cases as there are diagnosable autism cases. So, that is a possibility even if you're not diagnosable. This is me taking out some of the doctorspeak from the DSM criteria: Quote:
The way I see it, if there's not significant impairment, then chances are you're BAP or else just old enough to have learned to compensate, and don't need a shrink for autistic traits. If there is, then you probably need help and should go ask for a diagnosis. The only time when I'd say significant impairment doesn't need a diagnosis is if you're already getting the help you need for some other diagnosis--say, ADHD, for example, or social anxiety disorder (both commonly found together with autism, incidentally). |
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