Should I get a check up for AS?

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Hey guys I am new to the forum. I got a nice little life story and was hoping for some advice and comments from anyone!.

My history:

I had ADD and than ADHD when I was younger and so I regularly went to see a specialist about that. The last time I remember going to the specialist was around 10 years ago and they dropped the ADHD diagnosis and said I had traits of AS and that was the last time I saw anyone about it and pretty much forgot all about it.

The last 10 years have been interesting for me as I didn't think or feel as though there was anything wrong with me.... So yeh school was a tough experience trying to make friends and stuff, I always wondered why I was bad at it and was always getting in trouble for doing the wrong thing. It wasn't all bad because I got along with everyone in my class and ended got to experience a gf - but that's as far as it went for me. My only friends after school were my old school mates :/...... I have been hopeless trying to meet new friends and going out and stuff... bleh, and that's only half my problem.

It has only been in the last few weeks since i moved out of home to study at a new city and away from my friends, that I really wanted to know what the f**k was wrong with me.

So one night I was looking online about my problems and I come across AS and some associated symptoms... I read through them and realize that's the sh** I've got (or most of it)... and the tears just flowed and flowed thinking about all these things I've done previously and realizing why people react this way when around me. Really got quite depressed Sad

It has been really weird since I've been consciously aware about having AS.... because I realize half the weird sh** I do almost instantly after doing it.

Just thinking about this in the last 2 weeks...it has really infuriated me how society holds no place for us and because I don't have any stand out symptoms, anything I do wrong or weird in front of people... people just get annoyed by me and get shunned from everyone... no one understands me.... can't blame them I suppose.

I have been dying to talk about someone about AS though but I don't know anyone I can open up to about it Sad

I was wondering should I go see a specialist about AS, ever now that I know I have got it (well at least traits of it)?

Sorry for whinging and swearing like a child. I think I have got it hard, but I am lucky as there are plenty out there that are much worse off.

Yeah, if you can go to a doctor and start the process of a diagnosis, by all means do! You never know when you need the special services a diagnosis can get you. I was drawn to WP a few months ago when I was trying to figure out what is "wrong" with me, and has been for 37 years. I think I have Aspergers, as I have SO many traits. Only last week I was diagnosed ADHD, and I started researching it with the same fervor I did for AS. It all made sense, as I have all the trademark traits of ADHD. I really wish I could have known sooner, even if only 5 years ago. It may have precluded a series disasters for me.

ADHD doesn't explain some of my other eccentricities, though. I will probably discuss it with my Psychiatrist and therapist once my ADHD is properly treated. I want to make sure I am not confusing ADHD traits for AS. The two have overlapping traits. I had a crazy childhood on top of the ADHD, which could create a person who seems to be autistic.

How are you handling the traits of our ADHD? Do you have medicine or therapy for this? I don't know how old you are, but going through life haphazard without proper treatment can cause you a lot of heartache and troubles. It would be a good idea to either confirm or rule out the AS if you have the means (health coverage, finances etc) to do so.

I think that you should.

Hey!

Thanks for the advice =)

I am 20! And well according to my last visit to a specialist 10 years ago, I no longer have ADHD. When I was a kid however, I was quite naughty, really active... a wild child

Over the years they put me on a few drugs. It was dexamphetamines for the first half and then they chucked me on zoloft(i think), which is in fact an anti depressant, but was prescribed to me to address the ADHD.