I was wrong "Wrong Planet"

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Well I can admit a meltdown. I wanted to leave Wrong Planet and burn the bridge behind me.

My therapist told me he didnt believe I had AS. I was diagnosed years ago but he thought the test was shoddy. I was cured!! !! How I wanted to hear that!


My best friend of 15+ years finally told me differentlly. She said she bit her tounge because she was afraid to voice her opinion. She didnt think she was qualified. She has been my friend my girlfriend my enemy all these and shes read every book on AS she can get ahold of. Whos opinion is more valid?

Yes I am currentlly waiting on being reassigned a NEW therapist. :?


I admit I was really upset that my blog about having a Sexually Transmited Disease really upset me. It was beyond the life experience of some people here. I got pissed remembered what the Doctor said and tried to leave.

So I found a new support website for people with STD. And guess what? SOME of them didint understand my style of AS. No I didnt say I had it but my posts didnt didnt fit into a normal context. I was honest and admitted I had faults. This was seen as a sign of weakness.

Also you know that girl I mentioned in my last post? Yes she still really likes me but says I talk a lot and is worried I'm not listening! :lol: Wait till she gets a load of my bad eye contact later this month when we meet in her city!! ! I met her on the STD support site.

My friend said I have mild AS but its still pretty devestating at times. And I had more problem dating because of it rather than some silly virus.

I asked the therapist if I didnt have AS then what did I have? He said "persuasive depression" meaning I get depressed a lot and always have whether I like it or not.

My best friend finally said "yes but WHY are you constantlly mildly depressed?"

Answer = Aspergers.

I need two support groups it seems.

I need to remember ( dispite memory killing anti depressant side effects) that there are some people on this site that do not understand what I am going through just as there are p;eople on the STD site that dont understand AS either.

My "family" just got larger. :D :D :D ! !!

(Yes i did worry I was spending too much time here as I stated in my apology. I will limit myself somehow.Maybe "only certain forums)

lets just say that therapist can be wrong..they dont know your whole life feelings etc

Your friend of 15 years, if she is not basing it SOLELY on a subjective view of your treatment with/of her, is probably a better judge of whether you have it than your psychiatrist. She may have failed to remain your girlfriend because of the AS. BTW depression doesn't explain the other stuff, and AS CAN lead to depression. So depression isn't an answer either way.

[quote="2ukenkerl"]Your friend of 15 years, if she is not basing it SOLELY on a subjective view of your treatment with/of her, is probably a better judge of whether you have it than your psychiatrist. She may have failed to remain your girlfriend because of the AS. BTW depression doesn't explain the other stuff, and AS CAN lead to depression. So depression isn't an answer either way.[/quote]

you're so right depression DOES NOT explain other stuff!! !! !! !

I was wondering that myself!

No hard feelings Dave. I think more people understood your STD situation than you think. Sedaka and I tried to explain to you that living with an STD is not the end of the world. You are never going to find any group of people who will agree or understand anything about you 100% of the time. That is just a fact of life. You just have to learn to ignore the morons in life. It sounds like things are looking up and you can start to move on with your life.

I HATE the very idea of having an STD, etc... I don't currently have one BUT, with my luck, I probably will. People have said that 25% have an STD BUT about 90% of females have tested positive for HPV antibodies. So I guess almost everyone has an STD. But what does that talk REALLY have to do with AS, etc...?

Its a reference to a post I made a while back in the adults only section of WP.

I'd trust someone that read 5-10 books on AS than an ordinary theropist, plus that person is around you a lot more of the time. Some theropists may have only read a little on AS and not know a lot about it.

Who's opinion is more valid?

What do you think?

You know yourself better than anyone.

One GP basically laughed when I mentioned I had been evaluated...he said he thought it was a mistake, I didn't seem to have any "learning difficulties".

Apparently he wasn't too educated on the subject, further conversation confirmed that. But, I could have taken his word as a professional and denied it's existance...at the time I was all for denial...because I was looking for some "magic cure" to make me a different person and save my marriage.

I can do a pretty convincing normal act when need be, and I'm sure a couple therapists who didn't pick up on the clues would come away saying..."nope, you don't have it"...unless they took me home for a day or so...then after I lined up their canned goods and cd's, cut the tags out of their clothes, took apart their vacuum and rebuilt it, and filled their heads with useless tidbits of knowledge for a few hours I think they would look at me a bit differently...or possibly need therapy themselves.

I know someone on this site who is aspie - definitly aspie. The doctor wanted to put him on some medication which my friend questiones as it was not good for aspies. "Then you are not aspie," said the doctor.

He has since had another diagnosis to prove he is aspie.

Welcome back TrueDave!

I thought it was your new computer and Internet addiction, but I am mostly wrong about people.

There is an Adult Section on WP, Why?

For the serious questions in life, Dilbert asks his garbage man.

Very true. A lot of therapists started practicing before the AS diagnosis was created so some may have never really studied or read about it. My neuropsych insists its being over diagnosed and is the "popular mental disorder at the moment" claiming she has 100 people each month who call wanting a AS diagnosis. She seemed very angry about it when she gave me an AS diagnosis. So when you have therapists thinking like that it may be hard to be taken seriously as an adult who really does have AS.

I have a theory that if you want a therapist who honestly understands AS you need to find a young one who has just recently graduated say within the last decade. That way they have probably studied it in college.

i think psychologists and mental health professionals are crap... i was diagnosed by a neurologist... a neurologist is much higher in the rank than a psycho doctor. some psychos even graduated right after aspergers or even before it was found... so go find one who is fresh into the field... or go see a neurologist again new one in the field.

better taking another advice then leaving our wrong gang
maybe the adviser was wrong to advise you so he was wrong instead and not you maybe he needs to brush his knowlegde up with AS

I just read the "what is Autism" on the main page of WP.

Under symptoms . . . . .Yeah its me. I'm not self diagnosing . I was diagnosed before and reccomended by another doctor . I had never heard about it.

I need the meds for depression. I found that out last summer.

This Therapist I "fired" mostly talked about himself . I had to get HIM back on topic. :lol:

I'll take what the clinic can give me I suppose. I'm still waiting reassingment. I feel like I did something wrong.

And BEENTHERE you're right. He didnt think I had AS from the first 5 minutes he met me and said so.

Thank You again for your understanding words, dispite my bad behavior.

As for the internet addiction INVENTOR who isnt ? :lol: