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Hello all

Over the last day or so I have been reading up a lot about autism and Aspergers, and the more I read, the more I feel it relates to me. I am nearly 30 and at no point has it ever been suggested to me that I might be autistic in any way, people have always just said I was very quiet, but I've always felt there may be more to it than that.

I just did the online C4 test and scored 32 and so I guess that points towards needing to look into this a bit further, but I'm just totally confused and finding this all a bit hard.

When I read up about all the symptoms of AspergersI know that I definitely display some of them, but it's far from conclusive. I've always been a bit socially awkward, but I always saw that as a bit of a lack of confidence around meeting new people, although saying that, even my friends see me as being very quiet (unless I've had a few drinks)!

I've never had any problems with speech, or reading between the lines or interpreting people's facial expressions though. But other things such as hating small talk and being bored by conversations that don't interest me have always been there. I've also had some trouble with personal relationships through my lack of caring/switching off/becoming distant or as it has been described to me before, a lack of a heart!!

I've always had a bit of an obsession relating to football, remembering facts and figures and results etc, and collecting lots of reference books and newspapers/magazines etc, people used to call me statto at school! But as football is quite a mainstream thing to be interested in, I (or anybody else) had never considered that it could be an indicator of some form of Aspergers, and even to this day I still take the football thing a lot further than most!

I do like to have a routine and be organised, but again, I've always just been seen as someone who is really organised, again though I was once described as regimented!! I do have a slight bit of OCD according to my wife and other people, most noticeably when I line up my ketchup sachets in neat rows when in pubs & restaurants!

Apologies for rambling on, I'm really lost here, I guess what I'm trying to ask is, does anyone else feel like this or have been through this? I have no problems operating a perfectly "normal" life, and so the things listed above have always just been me, if somewhat unusual. But since I've been doing this reading, I've convinced myself I have Aspergers, if perhaps only mildly.

Can anybody help me, and give me some advice and guidance? I really don't know what to do now! I don't even know if I'm just imagining things or making them all sound or seem worse than they are. Hopefully, your experience in this field will tell me if I have something to worry about or not!

Thanks in advance

I was self diagnosed for months before becoming medically diagnosed and like you, no one had thought of autism being the cause of my peculiar habits and personality. I was labeled as quiet and shy and early in life instructors in school suspected I had A.D.D. If you strongly believe you may be on the spectrum, I suggest you look further into it. Talk to a doctor or psychologist familiar with ASD's to see if they believe you may be autistic.

I know I've recommended this book to several others in other similar threads, and at risk of sounding like a broken record I'm doing it again here.. because I found it incredibly helpful and I hope you do, too. Read it and then you'll know whether you have it or not, as it describes both outward quirks and traits as well as internal thought processes that only you will know if you do or not.

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Com ... kwsec=Home

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Great news, just got back from the GP and I was only in there for 10 minutes, and he agreed to refer me! I feel so lucky, it's been a whirlwind 7 days but I feel like I've made such progress already and feel a lot happier in myself now as a result.