Am I a aspie?

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I am having trouble figuring out if I suffer from aspergers. I am 1000000% positive I have it, but I am on a long waiting list to see a professional as I live in Canada. I have social problems, poor eye contact, and often strike people as being rude when I don't mean to. I don't understand social cues very well either. I remember a few years back, somebody told me I have a problem with eye contact. I find it difficult to glance at somebody's eyes for more than 5 seconds. Sometimes I have to force myself to. It lead me recently to research on it and I came up with aspergers. I also hate new routines like I tend to listen to the same song over and over again. What symptom have you noticed about yourself that led you believe that you're a aspie?

could be aspie. Just get checked out.

My problems are all social too. hard to make eye contact, makes me nervous. Slow or awkward responses when talking. When at a table at restaurants I lose track of conversations and cant hear people properly. I zone out etc. Difficulty in remembering anything when being told to do something etc. I'm told I'm pretty blunt. I try to take peoples feelings into consideration but honesty wins out all the time.

Great feedback. I have the same symptoms. I remember when my friend got new glasses, I told him how ugly they are. He told me I was first person to honestly say my opinion about it as opposed to everyone else who lied about it. Everything makes sense now.

If you are already on the waiting list, you will eventually get a professional opinion, though that opinion itself could be wrong.

In my case, my eye contact is not natural and can make people/myself uncomfortable, I find driving a car too overwhelming, I get annoyed/overwhelmed when there is some extra noise when I'm trying to do something to the point of feeling claustrophoic, I have no friend, I'm an outcast wherever I go, I offend people and get rude responses from them when I'm meaning well, I'm very strict about my routines, I can concentrate on some things for a very long time, my attention to detail is a bit extreme, multi-tasking is not my thing (I get caught up with one thing and tend to neglect other things or the big picture), I'm poor at sports and so on.

I'm myself intending to get a diagnosis, but I'm just a little worried about the possible negative consequences of doing so.

some of what you describe as your qualities that trouble you are reasons i considered myself an aspie. of course, there are other affectations which are indicators.

i'll suggest you take the aspie quiz. it may be an indicator to you whether you're wrong or right for suspecting aspergers to be the reasons for your affectations. http://rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

i found the quiz helped me be more insightful in considering in what other areas i was having distinct differences from the general population of people.

to me, getting a diagnosis was not only validating, but such a relief to me to finally understand that i'm not crazy (hypochondria),... i've got asperger's. in addition, once i had confirmation by professionals, i felt more at liberty to begin buying books about aspie life. books on aspergers, living with aspergers, even one for my loved ones to read which express from an outside perspective how they can not only support the aspie in their life but to help them understand them. i found the latter to be most enlightening, in that as the author describes her own experiences and sensitivities, i realize just how much more of my daily experience and interaction with the world (good and not so good), is because of aspergers.

stick with the wait. i believe if you suspect you've got aspergers enough to continue waiting for the appointments for assessment, then you've got good reason to go ahead with it.