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Hello, I'd like to introduce myself. I am Chris, 23 years old, and from San Antonio, Texas. I'm a college student studying Computer Science and Math. Recently I was thought to have Asperger's Syndrome by my mom's boyfriend who is a therapist with a Master's Degree. He has 2 sons with Autism, so he knows a lot about that. I was having a lot of anxiety and anger, so my grandmother wanted me to go see a Dr. for some medication. I ended up getting some anti anxiety and anti depressant medicines. Then later I went to see a psychiatrist. He wasn't there, so I saw his assistant. He believed that I have AS. He wanted to take me off my current medicines and put me on others. I told him I was not his guinea pig for experiments, got pissed off and left. I came back later and saw the psychiatrist who I was supposed to see the first time. He wanted to put me on even different medicines and slowly wean me off of Xanax and Zoloft. He wanted to put me on Depakote and Zyprexa. Why the hell would he do that? I am not physco. I don't need antipsychotics, and I am not bipolar. I did not take those medicines. Instead, I continued to get the medicines I am on from my first Doctor. My girlfriend believes she can tell huge improvements in me since starting those. I was misdiagnosed as ADD when I was a kid. After finding out I had Asperger's, I could understand myself better. Before being diagnosed with AS recently, I never knew what it was or heard of it. I had heard of Autism, but I did not know much about it. It probably explains why I have made so few friends but do very good in math, and computer programming classes that I have had at college. My girlfriend believes she can tell that I have AS. She says I always look serious, dont have emotions, dont make facial expressions, and talk in monotone. That's my story about AS. I was bored, so I thought I'd start making posts at this forum.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welcome to WP from a fellow Texan!

Tim

Thanks. I feel like I am on the wrong planet sometimes. Maybe we belong on Mars.

Nice to meet you, Chris.

I'm Jerry.

Welcome moo_cow,

And now that you have made the discovery of a lifetime, hang around and learn. We are like you.

Knowing does cut down the bad reactions, no shrinks needed, and the more you learn of your tribe and planet, the better.

In time, working the drugs out of your life is a goal. They are given out by people who lack knowledge.

The knowledge on living as yourself, and liking it, is here.

2,000,000 in the US, not described till 1994, and many of us disagree.

Most just live normal lives, and do well, the quirks come with talents, math, computers, we are in demand.

This is a friendly and supportive place full of obsessive experts.

I am one of those AS people that does good in Math and Computer Science. I don't know how well I will do in Physics, but I will find out next semester, but I am no where near the level that my sister is at. I sometimes wonder if she inherited AS through genetics too and that it is in my family genes.

Hi Moo_Cow,
I can relate to one degree or another with your meds situation. Twenty years ago when things were going horribly wrong in my life and I spent a month in-patient in a mental health unit, I was given sinnequan and lithium. Several years later, after I had been off those meds for a while, I was recieving counseling on an out-patient basis at a local clinic and was taking prozac. I know about some of the horror stories of people who reacted very badly to prozac, but it did fairly well by me. Some years after that when my life started to come apart again I was prescirbed luvox, (fluvoxamine), which I am still taking. I have mixed feelings about it, but it has helped some. You are wise not to take any medication that you don't feel good about. It was six yrs. ago when I was diagnosed with AS.

Lots of AS folks are good at math, computers, and the like, but not all of us. I have horrible problems with math and science even though I find both subjects fascinating. Thankfully, there are people like you in this world! Nice to meet you.

Hi Chris, welcome to WP

I'm sure that you will like posting here.

Unlike you, I am absolutely terrible at math!...But unfortunately the career that I want to do includes math as a necessary qualification. I seem to be horrible at math, but be interested in the careers which include it! Quite un-lucky.

It's great that you have an understanding girl friend, they are quite rare! I am female but I find that most males are jerks, but then on occassion there comes one who is accpeting and understanding. (was not ment to cause offense to males, it was just an opinion from my personal experiences).

Anyway, hope you like it here!...it is truly the right planet for those with AS.

Welcome to WrongPlanet!

G'day from me.

moo_cow - welcome. Good to hear you find your medications to be helpful and your girlfriend agrees. I take an antidepressant similar to zyloft and another medication (clonazapam) which is very similar to Xanax.
Xanax is not a good medication to take everyday - it is good to take every so often to calm and treat symptoms of anxiety. If taken everyday a tolerance will develop and it will eventually lose any effectiveness. Depakote has a similar effect to Xanax - but it can be taken daily without losing effect.

Hope this info is of some use.

G'day moo_cow, hope you enjoy posting here.

Welcome Moo_Cow

Better Mars than Venus.