[jesusplay]

I've been getting mental health for over a year and have GAD & bipolar diagnosis.

I feel I identify with people with aspergers, but then again I don't.

I use to be able to text 3,000 a month average, facebook, etc. Now all my social media is deleted and my text is cut off.

My nephew has been found to have fragile X and I possibly may have it but I refuse to get test because there is no cure for autism/aspergers?

So what am I really looking for if there is no cure, a diagnosis? Does a diagnosis explain my life experiences better? How does another "label" help me?

[Hellion]

Well refusing to get a diagnoses doesn't make it so you don't have it if you do..but there is no cure, since a different way of the brain working as far as I know its not even clearly defined how but it is different enough to where a 'cure' would be much more complex than anything most people could fathom and be a lot more invasive than say taking a valium for anxiety attacks...not the same as having people screw with your brain trying to re-wire it to whatever normal neurology is. There supposedly is help for it, I have not seen much of this especially if you're an adult...aside from it could help with getting SSI if you can't work...as for that label well having the diagnoses might help explain things, but if that is all it would do not sure there is much point to bothering since diagnoses can be hard to get though that is enough reason for some people, or if it's causing you difficulties might give you access to some help/services or something but as I said I myself have not seen much of that at least in my area.

[eskielover]

Knowing if you have it or not helps in working with a T to learn skills of how better to function & to interface & communicate with others....even if your brain is functioning in a different way, it's still important to learn how to interface with others in a way that doesn't cause problems for you & for them....& it does help you better understand yourself.

[ivyparkapartmentsgi]

I believe I have asbergers because I have quite a few symptoms of it like a lot of times when I talk to people I have lack of eye contact.A lack of demonstrated empathy has a significant impact on aspects of communal living for persons with Asperger syndrome. I have not been diagnosed by a doctor but my psychiatrist Dr. Cary Mack believes I am autistic and over the past couple of years a lot of people have asked my mother that question.

Originally Posted by jesusplay

I've been getting mental health for over a year and have GAD & bipolar diagnosis.

I feel I identify with people with aspergers, but then again I don't.

I use to be able to text 3,000 a month average, facebook, etc. Now all my social media is deleted and my text is cut off.

My nephew has been found to have fragile X and I possibly may have it but I refuse to get test because there is no cure for autism/aspergers?

So what am I really looking for if there is no cure, a diagnosis? Does a diagnosis explain my life experiences better? How does another "label" help me?

The label can be either a curse or a blessing.

It can provide relief and understanding that you've seeked you're entire life and you might even be happy again, but it can just as easily make you lose faith in yourself to do things you would previously have done, had you not known.

I'm just saying be careful. Sometimes knowing does not help, it makes things worse. It might make you stop living your life, because you think you can't do something because you have autism/Asperger's. I struggle with that to this day.

[Anonymous37919]

When I was getting my diagnosis in 2007, the fanny doctor did not know what I had, so they just slapped the PDD-NOS tag on me.

One thing I do do a lot is rub my face and bite my nails. I have other compulsions too. I quit thinking I was odd doing these habits because I just accepted it was a mechanism thing caused by my disability.

[AdamLee]

Autism is a spectrum as I understand it. Everyone MAY have some varying degree of it. I personally believe that ASPD is actually a form of Autism. People don't like to look at it that way because they think that people with ASPD are monsters. I think they are similar and may be on the same spectrum.

[Hellion]

Originally Posted by Spark1223

Autism is a spectrum as I understand it. Everyone MAY have some varying degree of it. I personally believe that ASPD is actually a form of Autism. People don't like to look at it that way because they think that people with ASPD are monsters. I think they are similar and may be on the same spectrum.

I am not really sure how ASPD and Autism are necessarily comparable, except that sometimes people with autism might come off as being rude or 'cold' without meaning to...from what I understand people with ASPD really don't concern themselves with how they effect others or if they upset anyone, seems a lot of people with autism will worry to an extreme about doing the wrong thing or coming off the wrong way and causing anyone any trouble.

Though some with autism become more spiteful and might develop more of an actual 'mean streak' you could say as a defense mechanism...but another issue is Personality disorders usually are not something one is born with, they are developed unlike autism...so even if there is overlap of symptoms of ASPD and Autism don't really see how they could be the same spectrum of disorder.

[Lexi232]

by "ASPD" do you mean aspergers? or does it stand for something else?

aspies lack the social knowledge, but they do have empathy. most lack the ability to show it. and may later review what was said, and at that later time they will realize it. they are usually very friendly people. just needing a different understanding, as its hard for them to understand all of the "common" social rules and behaviors.

since the latest dsm (version 5, i think)that came out last year, there are 3 diagnosis under the autism spectrum. and the others were changed to a different diagnosis that is no longer on the spectrum.
classic autism, aspergers, and PDD-NOS are known under the autism spectrum disorders.

[snickie]

I think ASPD stands for Antisocial Personality Disorder

[Anonymous37919]

Usually, you have to see a doctor, like I did years ago in a place such as Number 6 in Edinburgh.