Do I really have PDD/AS/ASD? Or just NVLD, anxiety etc.?

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Do I have PDD/Asperger's/ASD/autism?
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Yes 47%  47%  [ 9 ]
No 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
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13 Oct 2015, 6:08 am

I received ruling from Polish Social Insurance Institution which states that I am totally incapable of work to the end of October 2016. It gives rights to receiving social pension. So I am really seriously ill. There are no jokes with conditions like mine, because they are true handicap. It is really good that a person like me received such a ruling. I have proof that it is profound problem.



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21 Oct 2015, 9:36 am

I think that naming my problem as just "learning disability", "personality disorder" or "emotional problem" would be unfair and rather harmful. My symptoms are different than standard symptoms of autism or schizophrenia. I suppose that my illness may be not related to childhood autism and schizophrenia at all (for me it looks to be something related to schizophrenia (maybe my condition is a non-standard sort of schizophrenia?) rather than to Kanner's syndrome). But my problem is firstly a pervasive developmental disorder, a sort of autism. Psychosis can occur since adulthood, but PDD begins well before adolescence. Maybe my PDD belong to unknown sort of autistic spectrum?

I named my PDD (which may be separate condition which is not linked to currently known conditions) as "pathological nonconformism syndrome", PNS (this name is somewhat similar to the name of pathological demand avoidance). I suppose that my sister may have "lite" version of my subtype of autism. My mentality is not interested in "adjusting to society or even reality" - it is "pathological nonconformism". I think that PDA and PNS are spectrum disorders. Therapies for PNS spectrum should be different than therapies for Kanner's syndrome and its spectrum or Newson's syndrome (PDA) spectrum. My sister also does not look schizoid or schizotypal, she also rather does not look to have OCD. PNS is a PDD (pervasive developmental disorder), not a PD (personality disorder). I suppose that individuals diagnosed as having (social) NVLD may have PNS spectrum (at least in some cases). For me PNS appears to be a separate entity inside PDD family, different from other syndromes in the family, like Kanner's syndrome and Newson's syndrome. I was diagnosed with Asperger's, schizotypal disorder and OCD. My Aspieness is a more severe case of PNS for me (not something related to Kanner's autism), diagnosis of schizotypy may be due to experiencing interesting coincidences since above year. I rather have no doubts about my OCD. My sister appears to have just a mild PNS (which may be not diagnosable as PDD using ICD-10 or DSM-V criteria), without schizotypy (F21) and OCD (F42).



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21 Nov 2015, 5:25 am

Someone from one of forums in Poland wrothe that "autism hits from every my post". I conclude that I am pretty autistic when I think about my emotionality.

I have "deficient" social drive and my mentality does not bother with lack of social skills, gaining them and socialisation. It likes in its OWN way in our reality. It does not feel need of being loved by another person. I may be "icy" emotionally, do not feel love to my parents and I suppose that I would rather "like very much" my biological children, not "love" them. I appear to have "lack of emotional bonding". I have tendency to one-sided interactions. I do not remember being offended to anyone so much (for example to bullies from my schools), but I may be offended to girls who rejected my silly "admirations" when I was much older.

I like maps, statistic, collecting and simple, repetitive jobs, but I do not have need of predicatability and sameness (unlike persons with typical ASD). I can stim wildly and generally "need" large stimulation. I have "fixative", not so typical, "narrow" interests. I do not like some quite normal sensory stimuli, my eating menu is quite narrow, I often do not like washing my body because of the contact with too cold or too hot water.



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21 Nov 2015, 7:51 am

To ease my mind, I'm going to try to get tested for Autism at the University of Washington Autism Center. It's a 3 day test and costs about $1100. My insurance will pay for it but I need a referral from my doctor. I anticipate the test won't happen till about 8 months from now. I was diagnosed about 4 years ago by a Clinical Psychologist but I think it might also be helpful to go through a battery of tests at the Center. Then I will know for sure. It'll ease my mind, something I'm sure you're trying to do, too.



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21 Nov 2015, 12:21 pm

Dr. Scott Woodside MD FRCPC a forensic staff psychiatrist in Canada says I have a mixed cluster-b personality disorder with primarily antisocial and borderline traits in context with my pervasive developmental disorder Asperger's



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01 Dec 2015, 4:48 pm

Most of functioning is for me like pleasant routine, fixation or stimming. I have problems with washing and clothing appropiately due to sensitivity, sluggishness and "disinterest" in this area. I am "asocial" in some sense. I like social interactions which are done "in my way". My mentality is not so interested with social reiprocity, gaining social skills and "socialisation".



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05 Dec 2015, 5:06 pm

I would say that my illness is much worse than it appears.

For me it is like carbon monoxide (CO), which is a very toxic gas which kills many people. CO is colorless, odorless, tasteless gas which density is slightly lower than density of air. CO is a silent killer. When I was a child at some time there was wrtitten about me something like "psychologist does not see anything concerning" ("psycholog nie widzi nic niepokojącego" in Polish). Coomon Polish term for CO is "czad", which is also a colloquial word meaning "cool", "rocky", "jazzy", Czad is also Polish name of a large, poor country in Africa (Chad). My condition is significantly other than intellectual disability, Kanner syndrome, full-blown paranoid schizophrenia. But I ended with social pension (ruling of total incapacity of work), diagnosis with a pervasive developmental disorder (F84) and diagnosis of a mental illness (F2x) despite lack of attending to special school, lack of speech delay and lack of lying in psychiatric hospital. So I think that my condition is "powerful". It has "special psychiatric power" and turned out to be a "potent" disability. Psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers, pedagogues, people responsible for spiritual leading of others (like priests) should be sensitized to conditions similar to mine.