You can't have Asperger's because...

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That's so. but I don't believe too many people go to the trouble and expense of a doctor's appointment if they don't have something they are having real trouble with. It's certainly possible for someone to have autistic traits and be sub-clinical, and not diagnosable. Often happens in family members of autistics.

I approve of this being a thing to be going to school for. Sometimes I regret not knowing of a way to work on those types of projects with the schooling I have. I'd love to do some of the math work on one of those projects.

aspergers no longer exists it is high func autism now.

That's true to an extent. And it kinda also gets to what I think the doctor was thinking. The OP was self-diagnosing with AS because of an interest in neurology. I've heard it called "Med School Disease". Med students diagnose themselves with horrible conditions all the time because they have been made aware of them. Maybe that's what the doctor was implying.

That in no way means that OP is wrong about the diagnosis. If you know, you know. I wasn't even aware that AS was flavor of the month (I thought bipolar was still the syndrome du jour) when I discovered it. I self-diagnosed after having a couple of (unconnected) friends tell me about their respective children. I started reading up on the condition and went "Whoa! All this sounds REALLY familiar!".

And as for having to be diagnosed or aware of the condition as a child? I'm 52 years old. I was a child in the 60s. AS wasn't a diagnosible syndrome until 1994. I would have been 34 at the time.

I'm sorry if you don't like bold(because I know some people don't like it.) I just can't not type in bold, everywhere I type, I type in bold.

The issue is that I think my mum is pretty much in denial about the whole thing, and she will believe ANYTHING a doctor tells her. I'm not even kidding about that last part. I can manage to convince her about why taking a certain medication is bad even though doctors recommend it then she will hear from a doctor why its amazingly good to take this specific medication (they will tell her all the benefits and none of the bad side effects!! !) and right away she will agree 100% with them. This really frustrates me, as I often wish she could just make up her mind on something. You can't always be changing your decision when someone tells you all the pros of a certain decision. Then every "symptom" I would tell my mum, she would just be like oh but that's nothing, or Oh that's because of "blah". Or oh you said (insert inappropriate thing here) because you were too young to understand it was inappropriate(Even though at the time I was like 12, I didn't realise what I had said was inappropriate until my mom had told me, I still remember that time until this day, I don't know why ) . (This last one especially she said because my horrible therapist I mentioned in the original post said that one of the girls she saw that has AS called someone's car ugly and she's only 11 or something, so this means she has AS and I don't because apparently I don't say everything that's on my mind. (Two problems with this, 1. I have various examples of this when I was told something was inappropriate but I hadn't realised it until I was told. 2. Right now I have no friends, and I don't talk to much people, I don't have anyone to say things like this to.) And even then, I don't think that should be a determining factor.

Clearly my mum thought there was something different about me when I was younger cause she thought I had Bipolar disease. Honestly, I don't know why. Probably because I didn't have much friends, I spent my days at school drawing on all my papers. Teachers hated me for it. I had a teacher yell at me in 5th grade for drawing on a test, but I thought they were joking so I started laughing then they got even more mad! FREAKY! I know my social skills lack, I was going to see a psychiatrist for something completely unrelated to this and he made a point out of the fact that my eye contact sucked majorly. He made me practice eye contact, and even after that I still don't like doing it, though I lied to him while I was there saying I didn't mind it just so he would stop making me do it. Then there is the fact that I always thought I was ret*d for not "getting" metaphors, puns, irony... Even today, my brother said something and I thought he was being serious, then he told me "Can you not recognize sarcasm?!" I was just like oh. There's also this awesome song called behind blue eyes. This will make me sound stupid but for about a year I thought it was about someone with blue eyes, then I bothered to look up the meaning of the song and I was like OH it's about someone who's depressed!! ! This is the reason I always hated english class, my teachers wanted us to use metaphors, but I just couldn't, I failed at using metaphors. Oh well.

But I know for a fact that I am not stupid. In fact I had pretty much stopped going to school cause I hated it so much, so I ended up finishing my classes one on one with teachers after school for about 1 hour every day for the rest of my 10th grade then went on to online courses. One of the teachers I was doing 1 on 1 with for math even asked if I had ever had an IQ test, lol. (But I haven't)

I went out of school because I hated it there, the people sucked. I had "friends" but they weren't my friends, I didn't like them. I would spend recess sitting on the grass ripping it out of the ground while they did something random, I can't recall what they did as I was not paying attention honestly. My mom always thought there was a problem with me because I love being alone. She always pushed me to go do something, even my brother started calling me anti social at one point, then my dad started too... But honestly I don't care about what anyone thinks, I love doing my own thing, like drawing on my papers when I was in school!! !

Then there's the amazing amount of "stims" I have found myself doing over many many years. (Since as long as I can remember!) Things such as pacing, rocking from one foot to the other, shaking my legs more than I've seen anyone else shake their legs ever!! ! Now, I don't start doing these things because I decide to, it starts on its own. I can stop voluntarily (Although I don't know why I would want to, it feels nice!! !) but soon after it will start again or I'll start doing something else. Recently I've tried to remind myself to think "Am I doing (insert stim here)" because I was getting curious to how often I actually do these things, and to my surprise I've been catching myself doing these things a LOT!! ! (More than I thought I was doing this!! ! Often nearly all day!!?) Times I have caught myself not doing any sort of "stim" were when watching TV or reading an interesting book. (Not fiction, fiction books suck, I never read fiction.) Or basically when being really into something that's fun(enjoyable) I guess.

Sorry if I might have rambled on a bit too much.

This may seem like I'm going a bit off the topic that I started with the original post, but all this does somewhat lead to a conclusion relevant to the original post. I wish I could say all this (and more, I just don't feel like listing everything here right now!! !) to that darned therapist of mine. But I feel as though they would just find some excuse as to why it isn't relevant, or tell me something stupid like they've already told me before. But now I feel as if no one ever listens to what I say, because whenever I ask people questions about what I just said, they always say I don't know or something else meaning they didn't hear a single word. I tell them to just come out and tell me to shut up if they don't want to listen so I don't have to waste my breath but no one listens. I've come to a point now where I always ask people if I'm annoying them because I seriously don't know anymore, and whenever I ask them to tell me if they want me to shut up they never do. Then there is the issue that sometimes when I go to talk I just don't know how to say something, on the internet its so easy... (Reason why I only have internet friends) Thank god for internet!! !

Not quite sure what I should do anymore. I'm still sort of mad at that therapist, but not really... I'm not exactly mad it just bothers me when someone thinks something is right, but I know they're wrong. Very frustrating time this past week has been for me...

PS: I thought "anymore" was spelled as one word but spell check keeps telling me its wrong!! !

PSS: Reading over this post I realize I use too much parentheses.

What? I've heard about them thinking about this, but did this actually happen?

Asperger's is way easier to explain to other people! People are coming to know it as a proper condition; and yes, the self diagnosis thing is a pain in the butt, but people are starting to know the quirks involved with the condition!

Oh yes, I have high functioning autism! yeah, that's not going to create a stigma in people or anything, and no no no, it's not going to cause me to have to go on about what I suffer from and what quirks I have.

Asperger's syndrome is (was) an easy and reliable umbrella term that a lot of NT's recognised. does anyone in charge actually think about this kinda stuff? or are they just a bunch of overpaid and zombiac douchbags?

I'm 30 years old and live at home with my parents. I'm on SSI and Social Security because I'm unable to work because of the social aspects of what I believe to be Aspergers. I think I was diagnosed with PDD-NOS and ADHD when I was eight. I read somewhere that with PDD NOS you have a speech delay as a child, and I did not, so for me it has to be Aspergers. I live in a very small rural town and the specialists around here seem to only believe the stereotypes about AS, which I don't fit.

I have always lived with my parents from the day I was born to right now, and my dad read a book at the library about AS. He says everything in there fits me to a T. And it does. I tell people i have Aspergers but I don't feel right about it because I feel like I have to have a diagnosis to not be lying about it even thought I believe I'm telling the truth.

my psychologist claimed 2 months ago that it changed but i havent found anything online to confirm. Im still calling my disorder aspergers.f**k it lol.

The medical term would be changed to Autism Spectrum Disorder.

You can still use Asperger's to describe it, and the term Asperger's will be in the DSM as a marker for ASD.

I'm too tired to post the link, but its all over the forums here...

... because you had a delay in speech!

Aha! Dill throws Gillberg's at whomever.

Scheduled to occur next year. Has not happened yet.

I think you've got them figured out...