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Sandee
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04 Sep 2010, 4:43 pm

I found something interesting online today - and as I started to read about it (Called HSP, or Highly Sensitive People), I noticed some similarities between AS and this HSP . . .
the only thing is - I'm sure this Highly Sensivtive people is not going to be added to the DSM-V in 2013. Some of us are just highly sensitive. Nothing wrong with it.
Some of the things that stick out is hearing things or being sensitive to sound and having a need to go somewhere alone. Getting overwhelemed in your environment and being creative.


THe links are below if you'd like to read about them:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Highly-Sensit ... s&id=81866

http://www.highlysensitivepeople.com/

http://www.relentlessly-positive.com/do ... itive.html

http://www.hsperson.com/


(I am 35 single, female and have yet to have a diagnosis of AS). Well, this will take care of most everything - except not getting social cues. Another name of this HSP is Sensory Processing Sensitivity or SPS. Go figure - I was tested in 2004 and I was told that I am "smarter" and have a higher IQ than others my age (I was 29 at the time) but my processor in my brain was slow. Hmmm.....



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04 Sep 2010, 9:13 pm

You may want to check this link. it's been discussed here several times.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/gsearch.html ... .html#1135


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