Are you AS or MILD AS?

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Isn't mild AS AS?

Just like mild schizophrenia is schizophrenia and mild ADD is ADD and mild Alzheimers is Alzheimers. Someone can say they have severe AS or moderate AS so it's no different than saying mild AS.

That is BS, what the doctor said... when i used to go to AS groups, most people arrived on their own via public transport. One group i went to, some people had cars and gave others rides.

Same here. I seem like I should be able to work, but my crappy executive fnctioning makes me heaps slower than other people, and I get warned by the boss to speed up, and eventually fired. I dont have good enough social skills to do the work I could be better at. its like i have deficits that cancel out any talents I might have.

Driving anxiety/inability is not a requirement, it is merely common, and understandable.

I was anxious about it, so I attacked the problem, and drive excellently now, taking pride in having overcome something which I was so worried about. I may just be an exception to the norm, in that I tend to do that with all problems, it's just how I work.

I'm another one conventional functioning labels don't work for. But I'm not AS at all so I can't answer the poll.

I'm HFA, and I have no problem with it.

My self help skills are a little bit behind (even dressing and showering - kinda dyspraxic). If I was suddenly alone I would not be able to pay bills, cook meals (maybe the same stirfry over and over again), clean, or even afford to stay in the house.
I think my social skills have become a lot better. I still can't read people but I can attempt small talk and not bore people to death. I keep my special interests to myself. I can still break down in social situations.
My IQ is average but I am aware that I have problems with how much my brain can learn. Whether it's the fact that reading can become tiresome or some things with a lot of numbers tend to get confusing.
I'm not sure if it's all AS or something co-morbid. ADHD or an LD. If you met me you could tell there was something odd about me.

As for mild AS I think it depends on how many symptoms you have and if they are severe or not. Mild AS would have less symptoms and be less severe.
People have come on here only seeking a diagnosis because they just wanted to know if they had it or not, to put themselves at ease. That sounds pretty mild to me.

I have a diagnosis of straight up autism. I had no speech delay, but my adaptive skills are so poor (and always have been such) that I qualify for the autism diagnosis. It's can be confusing.

In some areas, on some days, I might act like someone with Asperger's and pass as such. In other areas, on other days, I'm closer to classic autism.

I had forgotten about this thread (no posts from October 2009 until April of this year)

Talk about a thread being raised from the dead

I'm not sure what exactly qualifies a person as having "Mild AS", unless it has to do with levels of functioning. Because I don't have an even somewhat normal level of functioning & even seem to be less functioning than a lot of the people I've seen on this forum, I picked "AS" although I have yet to receive a formal diagnosis. Whatever ASD I have, it is not necessarily "mild" because if it were, I would be at a much higher level of functioning than I am.

I started this thread as a newly discovered Aspie.

Anyone with Asperger's Syndrome is by definition impaired.

I think that in some cases the term 'mild' relates to how we (think we) manage to cope despite this;

Some of the factors that perhaps imply reasonably good coping abilities include, amongst other things:

1. Not being non-verbal
2. Having a 'job'
3. Having a job that actually pays you money
4. Having a job that pays you enough to live on
5. Being able to drive a vehicle (automatic or otherwise ) although not necessarily enjoying driving
6. Living independently
7. Having a business
8. Having some friends

I score quite well with these categories BUT it takes quite a toll on me, having to process EVERYTHING intellectually and I will once again quote (and thank) my good friend Willard for his statement:

'There is NOTHING mild about AS' (for me anyway)

He got banned; ignore it

What's adaptive functioning? If you don't mind me asking.

Communication, Functional Academics, Self-Direction, Social, Leisure, Self-Care, and Home/School Living, Community Use, Work (or Motor for infant/preschool), and Health and Safety. At least those were the areas when I was tested. Once I dig up the thread, I'll post a link to an explanation I wrote of how each one affects me because the definitions are not necessarily what you'd think. For instance functional academics isn't how good your academics skills are but rather how well you use them in everyday life. If you have a degree in higher math but can't count change it's the counting change that matters.

The post where I elaborate on those topics and what they mean for me is here:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp2701220 ... t=#2701220

It's also incredibly long. Most of them are described though. The part that describes them (as opposed to ADLs/IADLs/etc) begins with a similar list to the one I just gave you. I remember things like being shocked at bottoming out on the communication subtest but it turned out they were mostly describing social niceties, or else communication as used to describe things like hunger, both of which I'm terrible at. So the terms have some pretty specialized meanings sometimes and are particularly about how the skill affects your practical abilities rather than just the skills in a vacuum.

Sorry just a general question.

I was diagnosed with AS, but it isn't what I'd call reliable, the guy couldn't figure it out and he had to keep evaluating me over a 14 month period, I saw him on at least 20 separate occassions. Before I even met him he suspected me of aspergers. I took Iq tests and tests over this period of time.

Well anyway I was finally labelled with borderline as, he said I was basically as far as you could get to being on the edge of the spectrum, and said it was very very mild.
I've been researching it a lot lately and am not really sure if it's AS, I definitely have something though.

Can you be labelled AS if you have no routines or rituals and have a wide range of interests? When I was young I still had wide interests but I was obssessive with a certain few.
Never had routnies though.

My symptoms are the direct opposite of the AS routine/interests symptoms. It's just I've heard you need these symptoms to be labelled AS.
Is anyone here like that?