The Credibility of the Aspeger Syndrome

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Hi there!

I´m new, here.

The syndrome aspeger has been highly publicized in recent times. If necessary, the psychiatric has already medications indicated for this syndrome.


Recently, I was interested by Asperger Syndrome, because my psychologist commented suspect that I had it.

But I did a research on the subject, superficially. I watched and read some reports of people who consider themselves aspeger.

For me, what defines someone as asperger is very vague. Very vague, really.

I had the impression that most people may have a degree of autism. But what is the problem? Why classify this as more a disease?

I have trouble making friends, but many other people have this difficulty too. In fact, I think it's very difficult to make good friends - I believe this is true for everyone.

Superficias friends, that's easy. The opposite isn't it.

Living together isn't easy.

However, I watched a French documentary this syndrome ("Le Cervau d'Hugo" - "Hugo's Brain"). In this video, people who declared Asperger, they are similar: similar problems and similar difficulties. They appeared to mental problems, but they were smart. But I don't consider myself like these people of video - that's what I think.

Well, I have many doubts about Aspeger.

What do you think about veracity of this syndrome?

Thank you.

While it may not be the easiest to understand, Asperger's goes a lot further than "not knowing how to make friends." Many neurotypical people struggle with forming friendships, yes, but they generally know the rules of social interaction. They know how to interact with people when they have to, they just might be awkward or shy and need a little push. Us Aspies tend to want friends, it's just that our lack of social skills pushes people away. Unknowingly making inappropriate comments, standing too close, and talking too loudly often repels any potential friends, whereas neurotypical people instinctively know to not do those things.

You probably haven't done enough research on it. There are many people who are socially awkward and don't have Aspergers. That's true.

Aspergers is (usually) "higher functioning" autism. People with autism have difficulty processing sensory input in "real time." They also have difficulty processing social input in "real time."

As an illustration, people with autism respond rather extremely to fluorescent lights where most people don't.

People with autism frequently do not comprehend the intentions
of people in "real time." They might comprehend after thinking it over, though. Sometimes, it's too late. The person has been taken advantage of already.

So, you're asking people on an autism support site whether they think their own condition is real?
That's a little...autistic of you.

I think in some cases the degree of autism is so superficial it barely exists.

there's drug treatments for anxiety, ocd, depression and whatnot (which are things that are often connected with autism/asperger's), but there's no drug teatment for autism/asperger's itself. it's not a disease or an illness, it's a (generally problematic) sort of "brain type" that manifests itself through a combination of:

1) sensory anomalies (like oversensitivity to sounds that don't bother most everyone else); 2) the absence of some basic social instincts (like the instinct to show interest in other people and their lives when you don't really have any particular interest in them); and 3) often also the presence of an unusual need to find some type of logical / mathematical / categorical structure in everything (or sometimes focused on one very specific thing and all its possible details, with no interest in anything else)

i remember when i was trying to understand "what was it that i had" (looking for a categorical structure...), i read about asperger's and saw videos and stuff and i thought: "no, that's just not me". but then later a friend commented that another friend (who i identified with) seemed to have asperger's, and it made me curious again. it was when i saw this video that i started to consider the possibility more seriously. i don't agree with all the things that the guy says, and i don't identify with the exact same things as he does, but the video was enlightening to me anyway

the thing is, i have a rather limited imagination (which is also typical of the so-called "autism spectrum" -- which, yes, is a vague thing. it's a real thing, but the fact is no one really understands what it is). so, despite my ability to easily extract theoretical information from real-life input, i have a hard time picturing real-life things and scenarios from theoretical descriptions (i'm basically unable to read fiction books, because to me it's just lifeless words on dead paper). but once i saw that video, i thought to myself "well that guy seems normal to me. but i can see how he most likely does have asperger's, both from his own narrative and from his mannerisms in the video itself. i get it now!"

Thank you so much lifelovebeauty, Ezras and Anagram.

I think there is an official test to classify someone as Aspeger. Here, would someone know it?


About imagination, I have a lot of imagination.

if you mean an online test, then there's no clinically "official" one (for autism or any other condition related to psychiatry, since even the academically recognized tests need to be applied by a professional to be clinically valid). there's a bunch of informal tests out there (which in practice i think are actually better than the average psychiatrist or psychologist at telling whether you have autism/asperger's or not...), but rdos's "aspie quiz" is probably the most popular one. rdos has some wacky ideas about neanderthals and human courtship rituals and whatnot, but as far as online quizzes go, his test is pretty solid

http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

I know this online test. My result was both neurotypical as neurodiverse.

But this test had some questions that, frankly ...

"You like French kissing?" - Why does it matter?

"You like to talk nonsense (BS)?" - Who like of talk nonsense?