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25 Sep 2011, 4:36 pm
A high score means that you likely have OCD.
Which makes me wonder... maybe you have OCD instead of Aspergers? Just much like Callista was once diagnosed OCD originally and is now considered autistic, I wonder if the opposite is true of you. You do seem to be cut from a different cloth compared to the archetypal aspies around these parts...
(If you're truly aspergian, it just means you're unique in a good way!
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25 Sep 2011, 4:40 pm
25 Sep 2011, 4:45 pm
25 Sep 2011, 4:47 pm
A high score means that you likely have OCD.
Which makes me wonder... maybe you have OCD instead of Aspergers? Just much like Callista was once diagnosed OCD originally and is now considered autistic, I wonder if the opposite is true of you. You do seem to be cut from a different cloth compared to the archetypal aspies around these parts...
(If you're truly aspergian, it just means you're unique in a good way!
)I think OCD is a comorbid for me. I scored high on the Asperger's tests I've taken (48 out of 50 on one, 198 out of 200 on another) and I've been diagnosed with Asperger's by two different psychologists who I spent months with. (Two other psychologists also told me they believed I had Asperger's, but I only met with them a single time each.) I have far more Asperger's traits (i.e. pretty much every single one) than I have OCD traits. It's just that the OCD traits that I do have are so strong.
Edit: Also, I've noticed that I apparently come off differently online than I do in real life. For example, more forum users here than I can remember have commented on what they perceive as my frequent use of sarcasm, but in face to face conversations, I rarely even recognize sarcasm and never use it myself. I also have such debilitating speech issues that I rarely seem to be able to get words out, but online, I'm a friggin' poet in comparison.
25 Sep 2011, 5:05 pm
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25 Sep 2011, 5:22 pm
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25 Sep 2011, 5:29 pm
That seems about right for me. I think a lot of these things I do are due to anxiety.
you must seek help immediately!
I took it again and scored 13. Do I need to seek help immediately?
25 Sep 2011, 5:31 pm
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25 Sep 2011, 7:19 pm
That seems about right for me. I think a lot of these things I do are due to anxiety.
you must seek help immediately!
Have you ever heard of Hyperbole and a Half, or the ADHD screening test on this same site:
http://psychcentral.com/addquiz.htm
Relevant Post (both to your comments and the above quiz):
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2 ... ancer.html
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25 Sep 2011, 7:36 pm
Diagnosed?
I hope you find out where you are, because it's clearly taking up a lot of your attention. I don't know if it's distressing or not, but I do relate to "things aren't working as I expect them to and I can't figure out why."
No, it was just a response to let liveandletdie know that I understood his double entendre "If you're superstitious..".
As far as "things aren't working as I expect them to and I can't figure out why.", that's isn't true of anything but situations that involve other people (Especially groups of 2 or more other people; it's like they use some of kind of secret language to outmaneuver me somehow in a way they mutually recognize and, for some reason, they usually do it to my disadvantage.). Take people out of the equation, and my wonderful facility for logic and math pretty much allows for everything to go exactly as I expect them to.
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25 Sep 2011, 7:41 pm
Diagnosed?
I hope you find out where you are, because it's clearly taking up a lot of your attention. I don't know if it's distressing or not, but I do relate to "things aren't working as I expect them to and I can't figure out why."
No, it was just a response to let liveandletdie know that I understood his double entendre "If you're superstitious..".
As far as "things aren't working as I expect them to and I can't figure out why.", that's isn't true of anything but situations that involve other people (Especially groups of 2 or more other people; it's like they use some of kind of secret language to outmaneuver me somehow in a way they mutually recognize and, for some reason, they usually do it to my disadvantage.). Take people out of the equation, and my wonderful facility for logic and math pretty much allows for everything to go exactly as I expect them to.
That's what I was referring to since you have mentioned it often.
Have you considered PDD-NOS or the DSM-V social communication disorder?
