'Mild' AS vs introversion or shyness

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Tangerine12 Hi! You have brought the discussion back to where it started with Greengrrl's
concerns.


It seemed to get hijacked ! And became a very coherent dialogue.....extremely lucid... souls in unison or should that be accord? An interesting side thread ShogunSalute and Blindspot149.

It would be good to hear how Greengrrl has found the discussion.

I've thought about this a lot too. Initially I couldn't accept my diagnosis of (very mild) Asperger's as I had this image in my head of Rainman... and the boy from 'the curious incident of the dog in the night time'... and 'born on a blue day'.

However, I slowly began to recognise aspects of my personality that could be explained with a diagnosis of Asperger's - sensory sensitivities, difficulty in picking up on social cues, learning to socialise in an intellectual way, finding social occasions tiring, being more interested in things besides relationships etc etc... and the fact that the people who diagnosed me are supposedly world leaders on the matter (Minds and Hearts in Brisbane).

I don't really care if people think that I have it or not. It simply explains a lot of the pain I've been through and if it helps me get on with life then a diagnosis of Asperger's makes sense to me.

It was strange, I thought we had a moment and then............he ran away blocked this website from ALL of the computers where he 'works'

I think it was someone else, making a very good logical point, that finally had him running for the exit

The positive aspect was that a lot of people were posting some very sensible and helpful information that otherwise might have taken longer to appear

I have revised my view of things.

So my position is now AS? Yes I am.

Do I cope quite well despite my AS? Not so sure! I thought I did, through sheer intellectual effort, but I am now more alert to the possibility that I do not, in the same way that I was almost completely unaware of my AS traits (with the exception of my tendency to speech making/talking to much, that even an unrecognised Aspie would notice )

I dont want to risk another episode like yesterday by trying to label this so that's all folks

Everyone has such interesting opinions!
But yeah, back to whatever it was I wrote on the first page, turns out the kid in my class doesn't have AS. I asked him why he was telling people he had it, and he told me that he's sick of people asking him why he's so quiet. I felt slightly sorry for him, as I can relate to being asked why I'm 'so quiet'. But it's not good to tell people that you have a neurological condition when you actually DON'T.
I heard about a church minister who pretended he had cancer so he could get money. And apparently they even have a spot in the DSM-IV for people like that!

I have mild AS, but I know it's not only introvertedness or shyness. I'm usually not shy.

Besides, there are other AS traits than just being introverted or shy. I mean, I do stim, have difficulty concentrating on many things at the time, I'm inertial, interact socially awkwardly at times, etc.

I went to a specialist for my young HFA daughter to get a diagnosis, while talking about her, I told sometimes about myself and the specialist said: "well, I'm pretty sure that you have Asperger but there is no meaning in getting a DX because you have, friends, job, wife, childrens, so.. who care?".

I don't think that being an Aspie means that you can't have success in life, but having success in life could mean that there is no meaning to put a label on yourself.

I'm stunned. I've known about the disorder below for ages too just didn't connect it Now I see why people would do it.