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But, what really happens when they remove Aspergers out and put it with just autism?

I don't fit all the autistic traits that are listed. Would that mean my diagnosis as an Aspie would go away?

What would that mean for others?

I do not know why I have been thinking about it, or why this paranoia bubbled from all the sudden. But I'm suddenly beginning to freak.

If you've been diagnosed it really doesn't matter. You can still say you have it.
Getting services might be a bit of a bother. But I'm sure they will just change your dx to be 'autism'. I don't really know.

What don't you fit? Is there a verbal delay int the new DSM? Can't believe I forgot. I've read it so many times.
I fit it pretty well.

I haven't exactly read it. Just I remember the RODS test for Aspergers......sooo...yeah.

Some things seem kind of odd even to me, like liking the slow trickle of water, or watching blinking lights. My brain would explode if I stared into a light.

I have a lot of the social problems, I have rules, I don't like change, I have strict schedules, I have meltdowns, I have obsessions....okay...yeah...nevermind...see I told you paranoia for no freakin reason.

I just had this panic attack, while trying to find the DSM. I guess it was that I couldn't find it and that I was freakin out about not finding it and then several thousand thoughts came in my head.

I think that means attention to detail. I love slow trickling water but have light sensitivity, not to mention quite prone to seizures from flashing lights.

Even if you don't have those symptoms now you could have in childhood.

I put in bold the ones I associate with.

I just read somewhere that it has to effect your life or something like that. And I mean if you're thinking on the level that we are meant to be social animals and I have no social interaction what so ever yes.

As much as I could spend eight hours a day playing my video games. I know I have work and I know I have duties. But that's my schedules and routines kicking in.

But when I have holidays like today, I find myself either or being on the interwebz like all day.

Worse is that I forget to do the things I'd normal do, like regular washing seems to go out the window when I'm not working. Wearing the same clothes. I know I have to take a shower I just can't seem to motivate myself.

I'm to in the zone with video games or interwebz. Holidays are the worse, when I actually fixate on my hobbies I forget about the world around me.

Sorry...personal rant...should have kept that in my head really.

edit: oh wait that is effecting my life. God I am either stupid or really really slow tonight.

You don't stim? Not at all? I'm kind of jealous.
I don't think that matters really. Repetitive behaviour does not get in the way to live your life.
If you are older you probably just have developed a lot of coping methods.
As a kid you could have had it much worse. To have AS you need to have those behaviours as a kid anyway.
So I think you would fit 3.

All right. Well fit 3 will work.

I fit the whole critera as a kid...with the exception of the orderness thing. I am very random.

However as an adult, most of that has been drummed out of me by social skills training, with the exception of stimming (sorry they cant have that) and some moments where I just become low functioning while nervous.

If I was diagnosed as a kid, met the critera as kid like a glove, but I was trained how to act normal (although it is still an act... a good act, but still an act) Does this mean I grew out of the diagnosis??

However the female AS symptom chart is eerily like me to a tee. Even the things I thought no one knew about me was listed as traits.

That's eeire. I'd say I fit everything. Even as a kid they thought I had it (but made no action on it).

How can one have Aspergers and it *not* affect everyday life? I believe social interaction is very important and due to not having any one can't live a worthwhile life....

Mine does. I just guess I'm so use to being socially awkward that it no longer feels like it affects my life.