Can Asperger Syndrome be triggered by stressful events?

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I have a fulltime job that requires a lot of interaction and being a 'generalist'. I've been working for 2 years now, and I'm planning to leave for another job as soon as my own sister finishes studying -- which is just less than 2 months from now.

As for a partner, not interested. I even never had a crush before, nor understood romantic relationships just yet, let alone a desire.
And I refuse to lie about that just for the sake of social expectations. People around me kept denying so, I shrug them off. I don't feel guilty for admitting that.


And expectations? My boss have standards when it comes to socializing. She definitely hates people without 'manners'.
Many had been the same way since people kept presuming I'm a genius or some sort -- I just disregard them.
I've been avoiding expectations ever since I was young. Yet it didn't worked out, so I played along for a bit.

I don't have an active social life. I don't have the time and resources for it, nor have the interest to expand more than I already have. Maybe I will as soon as I move on.


The only factor that made my life easier was the culture I live in and it's comparable expectations. The whole thing right now is too slow for me -- which is why I'm "heck bored" from where I'm right now.

I'm only 22. More than half of my peers are already engaged, married, or is having/already had a child -- which the whole thing is rather discouraged if you know what I mean.
I chose a slower path compare to theirs. And theirs are too fast not because they are expected to, because they want to. Said expectation is supposedly slower than.

As for fortune, my household had been mostly can't afford many things -- that includes having additional needs.
My own diagnosis had already costs, like, half of my own dad's salary that day. My SPED tutors had been cut short, and we can't afford meds let alone therapy sessions.
Therefore, I can't afford having any psychiatric problems and I can't afford any ailment. At all.
That's the main expectation I have so far -- and that is, to truly adapt to the chaos and not break down or 'cope'/'tolerate' with it. I just found my own way of doing so internally and externally.

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Can Asperger Syndrome Be Triggered By Stressful Events?

As others have written, Asperger Syndrome (indeed all of the autism spectrum conditions) is present lielong, probably developing even in the womb, and has at least a partial genetic cause.

However, the points at which it becomes apparent may come at any time in ones lifetime.

There are key features across the autism spectrum, which are the deficits in social and communication, the repetivie and restricted behaviours or deep interests, these are quoted in the diagnostic reference books, and on top of these there may be such things as unusual sensory matters, difficulty in appreciating the conext of interests or whther an interest or the way it is expressed is socially appropriate, there is often a difficulty in switching attention task to task, there may be different and less usual ways of processing information.

It may opften be the case that austism spectrum or aspergers becomes apparent when the demands of a situation excede the persons ability to deal with it . For example, not realising until too late that a partioculkar strong interest may not have been appropriate talk for school purposes, or becoming overwhelmed by the increased social requirements when moving from being just in the family home with parents/siblings to going to kindergarten or primary school and having to interact with many more other children.

It is possible for favourable conditions to have come together in the social and educational side of someone's upbringing keeping the social demands manageable and the blind spots of an autistic mind becoming visible with the increased demands of college or employment - for example making more demands in the area of executive fucntion which can be another pressure point on an autistic mind.

Some fortunate individuals have managed to wing things until their thirties, forties or even fifties before discovering that their profiles are autistic and, "No, other people did not find those unstructured social situations as stressful as I do, and no it is not usual to find such things a stress point"

In a life event or situation which demands strength in al those areas wqhere the autistic / aspergers profile has its weak points and blind spots is likely to be both a very stressful time and that the aspergers / autistic profile of the person is likely to become more noticable.

In one of his recorded lectures, Tony Attwood gives accounts of the typical times people get diagnosed.
Pre school / Primary school very common for boys, secondary school and ollege common for girls.