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Surfman
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21 Jul 2011, 7:48 am

Learning to shut up and read others a bit, is a bit easier for me too.

As a male I'm not sure why, and have often related to women keeping quiet



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22 Jul 2011, 12:50 pm

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Did you also have therapy and interventive services since that dx? If so, the standard practice of trying to get intervention into place as early as possible is there for a reason. It does help. You may be able to function at a level where you may no longer be diagnosable - but that wouldn't change how your mind works. If you have AS you will always have AS and you may have just learned all you needed to know to function like normal.

I did have lots of therapy and intervention, but like when I was a child I had some autistic like things(running around, not talking to people, being clingy w/friends). As for the freaking out at parties thing, it is because I dont know anybody and that's kind of it.



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22 Jul 2011, 1:18 pm

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It sounds like you might just be shy. Did you have issues reading social cues as a child (I don't mean at the age of 2 when the majority of people would likely be unable to convey such a thing properly anyway). I mean at say age 10 or so--were you similar to an aspie or to how you are today? If it is the latter, then it is likely you were misdiagnosed (since you cannot outgrow it). It does happen--if a label applied to you at the age of 2 does not fit and has not fit you for as long as you can remember, then it likely was the wrong label and there is no need to use it, IMO.

Well I had a BFF and was kind of clingy with a group of girls(but I could read social cues pretty well, like I sensed something wrong, like they were ignoring me
but I didn't really have anybody else to hang with) and I remember when I was younger I used to sit with boys at lunch( probably because I thought some of them were cute), and I was on an IEP until 3rd grade. I've always been very picky about food, but I don't get overwhelmed at concerts(I've been to 4), and sometimes hugging a stuffed animal or pillow makes me fall asleep faster, but I can fall asleep fine on my own.
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It is still possible to have some autistic-like qualities as a child without actually having autism.

I wonder if I just had that, because I know this one girl in my class that truly has AS and she can't read social cues or know what to say to people.