Asperger's syndrome self-diagnosis

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^ The Face of Boo! Btw, did I named someone as non-autistic? nope, I said "there are more but they aren't that many" , you might be one of those who aren't many, or maybe you are one of the others.

No, you didn't, but you named a very short list of people you would classify as 'real' autistic members of WP.
Your diagnosis on here is 'Neurotypical', so I'm just wondering.
[And, by the way, I have AS. I was professionally diagnosed when I was ten years old.]

You are not the bona-fide "holier than though in some distorted way" end all of say old, golden measure, final definition of someone with Asperger's Syndrome. You have no right to determine how affected someone is based on your perceptions of their life and problems based on what little information they choose to share here, and you have no right to minimize the problems of others in light of your own.

What if I did that to you? What if I, pegged as autistic in 1982 before the modern world had ever heard of AS, who met all the cirteria for AS before it was ever written down, and was so affected that I had a team of psychiatrists and psychologists by the age of 6, one of the first children in the country they tested SSRI's on for OCD, and SSRI's on in general, said to you "I don't think you really have AS because you don't meet my standards. I'm the real thing and you're just blah blahing for attention. You don't know what it's really like."

What if I further said "I don't care if you have a formal diagnosis or not because I have 30 years of experience with AS and 26 years of experience dealing with those in the mental health field and most of them are no more qualified to diagnose AS then a surgeon who took a three day course an appendix removal is to do an appendectomy."

None of that would be very nice would it? To declare your problems nothing and toss you out alone into the world...actually, maybe that would be ok because I declare people who really have AS have no issues being alone,and in fact prefer it since I am so high and mighty and have the right to say so and you obviously don't because you don't really have AS.

IN FACT by DSM-IV standards, having psychosis and AS type symptoms EXCLUDE ones from an AS diagnosis. If you have psychosis and AS they call it either schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder depending on whether or not you have mood-swings. So your clinicians WERE wrong, and not only wrong, blatantly wrong.

You can look it up for your high and mighty self if you don't believe me.

How do you feel now?


I welcome anyone with social problems into my company with the exception of self righteous @-holes.

Thank you for this post.

Wow I hate to complain but why has this thread turned into a huge arguement on whos what I know that was the point kinda but why do we have to name names and be like oh they are this but they are that so what sorry to get defensive but enough is enough. Let people believe what they want. Again sorry for being rude that was no my intention.

The ones who freak out because someone... *gasp*... may be faking being autistic! are the insecure ones.
At the end of the day, who honestly cares?

There is only one reason I care: because there are people who may be dissuaded from seeking help and support by self-righteous "I have it worse than you do, thank your lucky stars, quit whining, move on, and furthermore you must be faking" people who have nothing better to do than be obnoxious to other people. It's hard enough for ppl with AS to come out and talk about what's bothering them without getting accused of being fakes, for the love of Mike. As for the person naming names and saying who's "really" got AS and who doesn't, maybe you should start charging for your brilliant Internet diagnostic skills. You might get rich, or you might get busted for fraud.

~Kate

Awesome post Kate =D

This is gonna sound stupid but did I miss something since that repeated the same post. The one Kate did.