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I'm wondering if it's an unusual thing in the community. I don't feel like I have a strong NEED for treatment, or an official diagnosis. I just found a list today of female asperger's syndrome traits (it was a pdf if you can find it), and I relate to 90% (if not more) of the symptoms. I'm not 100% sure if it may be accurate, but I feel like it might say something. I've been doing intense research on it all day.

[KattChaos]

I have self diagnosed myself with Aspergers. It all make sense. I was diagnosed with a whole list of mental health issues at a very young age when Aspergers was not a common thing. All the medication they have had me on just never works. I feel like it's because I was missed diagnosed.

[-jimi-]

I was self diagnosed a year before my doctor suggested it, basically I just waited her out since you get punished if you know something they don't.

For me it was very important to be diagnosed I needed some kind of benefits because I cannot work and back then they gave disability for asperger's but not for anxiety and depression.

[tumblr]

I see. I wasn't aware that you could get disability for it. I'm not completely sure what that means, but I'm guessing that I may have benefits to getting professionally diagnosed? It's just that I read that it's hard for females to get diagnosed.

[-jimi-]

If you get extra support or have the right of disability depends on where you live. Where I live (Europe) I have the right to some free services. Also when I applied for disability they actually didn't demand much more than the diagnosis itself which was a bit absurd. Now it is much harder to get here and you have to have quite severe problems to get it. I had some weird window of opportunity there. I'm glad because a friend without aspergers with different types of disabling anxieties had to go through 2.5 years of work training and other stuff before they actually allowed here to go on disability. Such torture!

[KattChaos]

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I see. I wasn't aware that you could get disability for it. I'm not completely sure what that means, but I'm guessing that I may have benefits to getting professionally diagnosed? It's just that I read that it's hard for females to get diagnosed.

I imagine we females are hard to diagnose with Asperger's cause they just feel like it's all PMS related or they just Mark as Bipolar and go about there say.

[IttyBit]

Yes. I have decided I do not need a shrink or therapy because nothing is my fault.

[stahrgeyzer]

It seems to me that a big percentage of people on Autism forums are self-diagnosed. There're several good online tests. I think the tests are accurate if your score is high, but of course being diagnosed is the best, something I look forward to one of these days.

[Imnotaturtle]

[QUOTE=IttyBit;5955858]Yes. I have decided I do not need a shrink or therapy because nothing is my fault.:

Exactly. Who is anyone to tell us we are skrewed up? I honestly think the world should adapt to us-not the other way around. Being educated isn't such a bad thing.

[IA_2809]

I think I'm quite likely to be one.

I don't want to get any diagnosis because being Aspergers in a developing country means social exclusion in all fronts (relationships, work, family, etc). Society being tolerant and inclusive of people like us, it's false at least in my environment, came to realize after some humiliating experiences. Just another cynical slogan for people to feel better about themselves until they really understand what's behind their empty promises and/or white lies.

I don't expect anyone what is it to feel like I do. I don't expect them to feel how it hurts to be condescendingly talked all the time as if I was a mental retard unable to see through their superiority feelings. After all, I'm no empathy genius either.