27 May 2011, 5:08 pm
Thanks everyone for your replies! My mother is supportive, but she just doesn't think I have Asperger's syndrome. I finally saw someone today, but he also was adamant that I probably don't have Asperger's. He decided not even to go for the diagnosis when he reviewed my LD problems that he had diagnosed me with a few years ago.
Basically, he told me that I have a really high verbal IQ (in the 150s, if the test is to be believed) and a comparatively low processing IQ (around 100). This might make me feel less smart than I am and stunt my social interactions. He also told me that it was my classmates at college who were "weird" and that I was "too smart" or "too good" to partake in partying or drinking. (I'm sorry that this sounds so snobby... I don't actually think like that anymore. These were his words. I got over this "I'm so superior" phase in high school.)
He did say, at one point, that I could be on the autistic spectrum, but that it's too small to be noticeable. He seemed to think that my social issues stemmed from my processing difficulties and somewhere else - some sort of unnamed event that happened to me when I was a child (which is weird, in my opinion, because I'm spoiled and sheltered by my parents). He referred me to someone else for therapy to deal with my "deeper issues" and help teach me to socialize better. We didn't talk for that long (1 hour), and I got the impression that he really didn't know what it was like for me in college. I sort of froze up and wasn't sure how to explain it.
Anyway, I'm definitely open to practical help/instruction in socializing, and I think it will help me a bit next year. 
Plus, my mother is volunteering to pay for all my therapy, which I am eternally grateful for because this stuff is expensive! I would have liked a definitive name for the troubles I'm experiencing, but I think I realized, after talking with him, that what really mattered was improving. It seems to me like the therapy he's referring me to is very similar to the therapy given to people with Asperger's syndrome, so either way, I think it will really help me.
Thank you so much to everyone who replied. I read everyone's post, but I can't really answer them all here. They were all really helpful and interesting.
