Can I be like some sort of unoffical aspie, lol

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Anyway, I had a major depression spell I needed treatment for. I asked the nurse why they dxed me with schizoaffective, and they said in my case, I have a mood disorder, and they added the schizo part because I have extreme social dysfunction and they do that sometimes...

Then the next day unrelated and I didn't even tell him what the nurse said, my therapist said "I don't know if you really realize this, but you are not picking up social cues."

Then I asked a relative and she agreed, she said I have horrible social skills.

Now I mostly in the past suspected I was a mild aspie because of the fixation on birds and Sonic the Hedgehog, but I thought I had pretty good social functioning nowadays, though my childhood records said no social skills. The docs say my fixations are just a personality trait.

They tell me I'm not aspie because I talk warmly and make eye contact, but if I have this crazy knowledge about weird things and bad social dysfunction, can I be an unofficial aspie?

Yeah, I came here a lot in the past, I have a fixation on asperger's too, this has made my obsession flare up again :?

Last edited by Angnix on 23 May 2010, 7:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Asperger's, being a neurological condition doesn't 'flare up'. It is consistent. Being an Aspie doesn't rule out having mental illness that 'flares up', though.

Sure you can.

Opps, I meant my obsession flared up.

Yes, and welcome!
Who says docs are right?

I do hereby declare you to officially be an unofficial Aspie.

There. Its officially unofficial..

Not necessarily. All kinds of things can affect how strongly one manifests signs of asperger's or not. Simple things like diet and amount of sleep can have a huge effect. The sort of environment one is living in can exacerbate or mitigate the signs of asperger's. The baseline is always there, but other "symptoms" can, indeed, "flare up" and "die down" over time.

I've experienced it in myself where I am "more autistic" during the school year than I am over summer vacation because over the summer there is less stress, fewer demands, and I am able to go for days without leaving my house. Once I am out among people every day and keeping someone else's schedule and so on, I get much more stressed and the stress brings out stronger manifestations of my autism.

To be honest, I have seen your posts around and I dont understand why you cant get at least a PDD diagnosis, I think the people who are evaluating you probably dont specialise in ASDs and dont know what to look for. There are a number of people on the spectrum who are extroverted, and while many dont make proper eye contact, there is the occasional person who does. My (AS) father's eye contact is way better than mine, and I had a friend who I suspected to be on the spectrum like me and her eye contact was also better than mine.

Being able to make eye contact does not indicate that you do not have aspergers. I can make eye contact just fine but I have most other aspergers symptoms.

I can make eye contact fine too, though I had to concentrate and work on it at first. I guess that may be the difference? That NTs just do it naturally, instead of having to learn it?

I always make eye contact. But it's true also in school I went through hours of social skills training and I don't remember if they taught me that or not.

I mean I lost the pictures of the school psych reports because of a stolen laptop, but basically I showed them to someone on another website that knows something about AS and they said my school records really do sound like a little kid with AS and ADHD. I keep loosing those school psych reports though, I need to go back and get all of them again.

Angnix-

I clicked on your profile, and happened to notice you are female. Apparently, it is notoriously difficult for girls and women to get diagnosed with AS. You could very well have it, in my opinion, but just haven´t gotten the proper diagnosis yet.

Ugh, now the therapist says I have good one on one social skills, I didn't ask why the flip-flop, but it's confusing me.

Yes. Welcome to the club!

All social situations are different. I think I also have good one on one social skills, in a doctor/patient situation. It´s other social situations that confuse me......

Hang in there.

Angnix,

This won't really "prove" anything one way or the other, but this is how I self-diagnosed:

http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/asperger-test-aq-test/

However, IMO, if you think you're an Aspie, you're probably right, so "unofficial" or not, welcome aboard!