[bpen76]

Hi there. I am a 37 year old male with a few mental issues already diagnosed.
I am just wondering though if it is possible that I might have undiagnosed Asperger's Syndrome.
The reason I am asking is I think I have a few signs of it.
I have a problem keeping eye contact with people, the thing is though, it's not everyone. If I am comfortable with the person, I can maintain it for a while, if I don't feel comfortable, a couple of seconds at the most.
Also I seem to just focus in on things. Like people for instance. I can focus in on them and just be almost obsessed with them. Usually it's just one person, sometimes though it can be a couple. Also objects. Focus in on some things really hard. No-one can take them from me if I don't want them to.
Also I am more comfortable with talking online or on the phone then I am face to face. It's like I can be someone else when I can't see the person.
This is mostly a curiosity thing. There is a chance they are connected to the other things I have which are bipolar, depression, and PDD (split personality for those that aren't aware of it).
Thanks in advance.

B

[manwithnofriends]

...ask a mental health expert?

[wishing2bwarm80]

Hi,

Sometimes looking for a diagnosis buys trouble you may not want and a lot of reasons.

1. The power of suggestion (very normal, any nursing or medical student is forced to admit ur)

2. Getting a diagnosis
---Sometimes one you have but also?
--- it can give tunnel vision
--- You may find what I did-

Answers I didn't like, a diagnosis I didn't have, a life of being crucified like I was doing things like my fantasies intentionally. And that the treatment changed, but to be honest?

People are just as mean about mental health disorders as ever, information to the contrary doesn't matter.

They don't read it all and are selectively deaf.

Including doctors and nurses and others who should know better.

I know one woman with DID.

She did have a lot of issues and with that, she opted to go home to her family and live with her identities.

That's a hard one. So is this. Especially when I'm almost 40.

But I am living independently so the bonus is that.

[Lexi232]

The funny thing I find... Is that from what i've heard, you can't be officially diagnosed with aspergers if you weren't diagnosed as a kid or some certain early on age.. But... In the US the diagnosis of aspergers wasn't around for most of the people who are in their late 20's and above. And just because someone hasn't been diagnosed with something doesn't mean it isn't valid.. Like, just because a doctor tells you that he sees no signs of you having headaches, therefore he wont give you the help that you need to get treat your headaches.. Just because a doctor says that you dont have them, doesn't make you suddenly not have them.

BUT ... with that said, you really should speak with your pdoc. They can also figure out just what might be part of another diagnosis that you already have, or even if it's a side effect from one or more of your meds.

[rosska]

Since the diagnosis didn't exist in the world until the mid 90s, it's completely normal for people to be diagnosed as an adult since the disorder itself didn't just appear in the 90s, so people alive before the diagnosis existed can still have the disorder.

Plus, unlike other Autism Spectrum disorders, it's not uncommon for people with Aspergers to go unnoticed because we often don't have the same learning difficulties as children, so families tend not to notice a problem until we hit teen years where our stunted social skills become more apparent.

Like myself, I was only diagnosed as an adult. Heck I was reading the other day about a man in his 60s who was diagnosed with Aspergers.

[Lexi232]

I was 4yr when the guy who was doing my testing, told my parents that it was a hard call due to he thought it was ADD at first but as I was able to concentrate and sit still and stay focused on things that i knew what was expected of me, or that i found intriguing it didn't quite fit in ADD. He said that I was much more on the autistic side, and then came to the conclusion that I had Autism.
My parents fought it, and occasionally it would come back by some other doc who would say I had autism. But once again my parents would pick up and move cities and schools. Sometimes to hide from the state workers, and sometimes to start fresh where they didn't have a chance to know or not (until they got used to me). Then as I got in my late teens and that's when it was no longer coming up as autism but aspergers.