How many of you are self-diagnosed?

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And what did you diagnose yourself with?

I'm self-diagnosed. I can't be sure if I have AS (it's the only possibility of having something from ASD I assume - well, some years ago when I introduced a description of my personality on another forum someone suggested I could have HFA as well but my speech has never been delayed and the symptoms weren't visible early enough) because I fit also criteria of schizoid personality disorder. I have also some antisocial tendencies as well.

I was originally self-dxed since summer, 2004. Got an assessment for AS in summer, 2005, but was only an assessment, not an official dx. Later took the assessment into a psychologist for an official dx in spring, 2007.

I am self-diagnosed with AS. I fit so many of the symptoms/traits that there's no way I can possible be NT, lol

From april 2007 I've diagnosed myself with selective mutism, manic depression and Asperger's.

I am self diagnosed with Asperger's traits.

I have a diagnosis of Auditory Processing Disorder, "a cognitive profile consistant with a Specific Learning Difficulty", and a psychiatrist has noted that I have Autistic traits.

I tend to just refer to myself as Neurodiverse, as it isn't really clear what's going on with my neurology other than it is non-standard.

Robin

Well..here is what happened....i have always been a difficult person....but my parents don't believe in seeking out treatment for that kind of stuff....They were just very leanient with me all through school...I had a very hard time...blah blah blah....

I was originally self-diagnosed with ADD..since high school..(read about it while hiding in the library)..which led me to read several books about it...this was around 1994.......and I was a member of ADD forums for years and years(i would not have been a member of the forums if I did not have stuff in common with them)....I had really wanted a formal diagnosis...but never had the money....i was not officially diagnosed with ADD till I was about 30.

One of my forums on a network called Tribe.net was one I created called "Dropped on the Head as a Child"...partially because it was a stereotype that kept coming up in movies and books...and partially because I actually WAS dropped on the head at the age of 2...and though it might have been a cooincidence that i have memory problems, difficulty recognising people....headaches...blah blah blah...

Anywhoo...one of the ladies on that forum suggested I look into Autistic Spectrum Disorders...as many of the symptoms I described in that forum she had always attributed to ASDs....so I did look into them.....and after a few brief phases of thinking WOW..this is me....and then talking myself out of it....it grew into a full blown obsession.... ....

I don't say that I have Aspergers beyond a reasonable doubt. I say I am an ADDer with many symptoms of Aspergers....and also there are traits that run on both sides of my family.

I am currently reading Temple Grandin's "Thinking in Pictures" at the moment...and while I posess but the foggiest trace of her abilities, my mind does kinda work like that....i have a divergent visual memory...if somebody asks me where something is, I see a picture of where it is located in my mind. My uncle is an architecht/inventor and he has a very vivid photographic memory....which he uses in his work...

It seems like I have many of the social and sensory difficulties associated with AS, and very little of the genius...oh well

i can relate to the obsession. i've looked at practically every website and read many books. ever read the ADHD-AUTISM CONNECTION? you should....

http://www.amazon.com/ADHD-Autism-Conne ... 1578564980

Same here, so much so that I'm now going into autism research.

I first 'self-diagnosed' me, after I was half-way sure that I had a form of a autism and closely after, I tried and succeeded to find an experienced professional who then diagnosed me and eventually agreed on me that I'm indeed autistic. Didn't tell me until the end of the very last appointment.

I'm sure that if I'd be diagnosed by use of the DSM-IV (I was diagnosed by use of the ICD-10), then I'd be diagnosed with central auditory processing disorder too and ADHD because of hyperactivity and attentions deficits and maybe sensory processing disorder. Oh well, saying 'it's part of autism' makes one at least happy to say it's only autism and nothing else on top of it.

self-diagnosed here... since all of the traits that were identitfied in my son as being Autism/PDD-NOS/Asperger (once he is old enough) are traits I share with him, it is only natural that I would consider myself an aspie as well.

I am a very analytical person, and have a powerful need to classify things, including my own behavior. Used the DSM, various books on the subject, various peer reviewed journal articles, etc. Created a sustained differential (let's just say I was desperate to say I was anything but autistic), bringing in evidence, primarily with as little introspective content as possible (third person accounts, memories of behaviors in the absence of reasons, etc), and then placed on second tier behaviors with introspective content but which I was emotionally neutral towards, and then just about threw out memories with introspective content which I wanted to explain. Observed family members who seemed to be showing autistic traits.

Various meta evidence was then brought in to question the likelihood of bias in the thought processes as well as to question the likelihood of my circumstances being as they are in the presence of an ASD.

Self diagnosed. Asked my therapist for a DX, was told I'd have to pay for a specialist since I'm and adult.
First suspected when I read about AS, that's when I came here and started posting ...

classic autism, AS or pdd-nos?

I recognize a lot of Asperger's traits in myself, but I don't think that I would ever "self-diagnose" myself with anything.

No pdd-nos label here.

The diagnosis is AS based on the fact that I'm speaking as an adult and that I have at least average intelligence. The psychologist said if I had scored lower, then she would have me pegged with classic autism! I got told this today and it ruined my mood, because I don't quite fit in with either AS or kanner's, thus the 'other spectrum disorder' in my profile (and to prevent others from re-diagnosing me as either classical or AS all the time, because it has happened elsewhere).

I wasn't sure where to put me when I self-diagnosed me. I ran into the same confusion the professionals ran into.