Seeing a Psychologist

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Hi. I got a feeling you might have come up to this question many times before, but here it goes.
Well, I am not diagnosed with anything, I have seen a therapist bunch of times before, but seemed very awkward so I stopped going.

But I've been reading alot about the Asperger's Syndrome recently, and I just got this "yup, thats me" feeling. So I want to see a therapist again to figure it out.

SO my question is, what do I do? I mean I can't just go there and say "Figure out whether Im an aspie or not", if you had experiences with a psychologist before, can you tell me how it went, and how they found out about your syndrome and everything?

I just feel very awkward when I go to a therapist with an empty head, because it just becomes a boring conversation.

you should go to a psychiatrist

I disagree with Alex. Psychiatrists just want to give you prescriptions and won't typically give you longer than 15 min - 30 min appointments.

You want to find someone who is experienced in evaluating for ASDs in adults. It's hard to find, but they're out there.

EDIT: Where do you live?

Have you took this online test?

http://www.rdos.net/eng/

I took that quiz a few days ago and I scored around 155 out of 200 aspie. That plus all the symptoms I've been reading about it really makes me think I have it. But should I mention this when I go to see a psychologist?

I live in Montreal by the way, and I just moved here recently, and I dont drive here, so if anyone already knows a good psychologist around here please let me know

^god damn thats such useful information thank you. do you have a website for the "how to get a diagnosis" thing by any chance?

also, where you said "to link to their web page Click Here" , link doesnt work

many many thanks once again machine

I'm seeing a phyologist for about several months now. He's getting me to socailize more and reconize facial expressions and body launge but I still don't understand about people's facial expressions since I only see the negative in people.

Well what happens is, some disorders are real in that they have very clear diagnostic criteria, others are purely made up to sell pills (which is really what this entire thing is about).
Even real disorders (or in our case, a mere difference), eventually the psychiatrists will LOOK for a label to slap on someone, even if they have to exagerate the symptoms. Because it's money, they want to sell pills. Pharmecuetical companies and psychiatrists have this scheme all worked out.
What ends up happening is that people with false disorders end up playing "disabled", either for false identity security, societal pity, maybe a free ride on a government check, or any number of reasons. There are many people on here who claim to be AS who are not, a diagnosis doesn't mean a thing. This has happened with AD(H)D too, which I actually now believe was a minor disorder but now it's kinda hard to take someone seriously when they say they have it, because of all the fakers. Fakers take away a major part of the identity and community voice away from those they impersonate..... Kinda like if a guy dressed up in drag and tried to speak for women (especially if it's something on female issues), it's kinda the same ball and chain.
really it's just another example of how corporations create illness in society and profit off of it. Most of those pills aren't adequately tested, they don't always know what the side effects will be. I'm willing to bet the DEA has a cut in it somewhere, otherwise they'd shut the scheme down (or one would think).

ps- i tried to post this here before and the stupid f---ing site screwed up and made me make another post on it.

Psychiatrists basically deal with the big 3:

-Psychosis
-Mood Disorders
-Anxiety Disorders

You can have an Aspie who may also be dealing with any one of these and I'd say about 9 times out of 10, the psychiatrist is just going to see what they're used to: psychosis, mood disruption, anxiety.