Asperger's vs. childhood abuse

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I don't know how child abuse could be causing Aspie traits, unless the therapist is referring to reactive attachment disorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_attachment_disorder). And if they did mean RAD, autism must be ruled out first. Besides, if your problems do result form child abuse, if they are significant enough to impair your job performance (as they seem to do), there must be something more going on than just child abuse, eg. PTSD causing yout o be too socially anxious to participate. I'm not saying you have that, but that child abuse alone cannot be used as a reason for disability. Of course that doesn't mean that child abuse isn't serious, but it is not a DSM/ICD diagnosis, so social security won't accept it.

However, I guess your therapist doesn't need to believe in AS for the psychiatrist to assess you. My parents don't believe I have AS either, and yet I was diagnosed twice on the basis of interviews with them.

Maggie, I don't have any of the symptoms of PTSD, and therapists don't think I have PTSD either. In any case, PTSD wouldn't account for total rejection from society either. What they say is that I have childhood trauma that causes me to be aggressive because unconsciously I want to avenge my childhood.

However, I don't believe them. There are zillions of people out there taking their traumatic childhoods out on others, and they do have friends and spouses and jobs. Even if it were true that I'm more aggressive than other people, their correlation that "only aggressiveness and aggressiveness alone can cause total rejection" is not proven by any scientific research or common sense. But all therapists and Psychiatrists I've seen in my life make this assumption and aren't open to discussing it. It's not to be questioned, however inaccurate it is.

doctors like to blame all problems on abuse and trauma even after they are not able to find proof of any so they do not have to admit autism is possible

doctors need to learn that when there is no proof of what they want to find then that means that what they want to find does not exist so look for a different reason for things so stop telling us just still have to be even with no actual proof

Greentea how old are you just wondering thats all?

As anger and feelings of massive rejection are related and ever so more prominant in certain age brackets my previous degree is in psychological afflictions especially in abuse, and maggiedoll that was a lamans round up if I had to do a list it will be extremely long

I am just very curious tof your age as what the psychologist is a universal theoy actually I can explain what it consists of but it would be several pages long and I don't have the tme lol,
but seriously as a previous poster said you really need to see an autism specialist, I don't know how difficult that will be in your part of the world bt in the uk its quite difficult so good luck to yu, in the uk a lot of autism specialists are actually educational psychologists or extremel senior psychologists of people in their 50s because a psychologist who can fully give and record a diagnosis in the UK is reletivly tough I can tell yo its going to be chllenging especially for older people and being 21 its bloody tough.
One reason your psychologist said this is most ikely
1, they are not at all prepared to give a detailed reason and diagnosis
2, they can only do with what they know
3, in the UK a psycholist would most likely say I can't deal with this situation its not my field so I really think you have a wrong psychologist

also have you had history with depression at all in your history as I think a psych can see your records in the uk they can but I don't know wat the deal is i the middle east I know they can in the US to depending on the situation

I feel sorry fo you as I kno what its like to seek resolution and no one listens but keep strong dude and its just a shame everyone's kinda on your case

I'm not going to claim you do not have aspergers, but like i said in one of your previous threads, your aspergers may not be causing your problems. You say you have been bullied and you say you are overly-aggressive with people. That's what needs to be dealed with, a better diagnosis isn't going to help you at this stage. If you find that you can make yourself less aggressive and you still have issues, then maybe things need to be taken a step further. However, you seem to have tunnel vision, you seem to want the aspergers diagnosis, more than you wish to be helped. Therapists are not blind to this and this will put them off diagnosing you.

And God forbid I should ever express anger at something in a Psychology session or at a Psychiatrist's office, because then that instance is remembered forever as "the proof" for my being an outcast: anger problems.

My age? When? The first time I was diagnosed as having anger problems caused by childhood abuse instead of Autism or the last time? The first time I was 18, and the second one I was 47. Continent? The first one was the antipode of the current one.