AS with visual-spatial problems and special interests

Post Reply New Topic

I recently took a first step to getting dx'ed. I had brain mapping done. anyway it's likely I have AS.
a neuropsych said it's unlikely I have nld (read the sticky in this section) since I talked late. not sure if late enough to be hfa but doubtful.
anyway I have visual-spatial issues which isn't common with as.

the special interest thing. I can't imagine what my special interests were as a child. My life doesn't seem to have been characterized by that. now maybe. I used to inundate my friends with emails about baltimore (city in MD whose metro area I grew up in), urbanist stuff. ive layed off now. perhaps even restaurants. like finding the best ones.

in fact i used to not be all that into anything that I knew of at least.

I don't think these rule out AS according to the dsm criteria, but maybe by more updated criteria/clinically.

DX or not, looks like you're fitting just fine around here ....

it's a spectrum; there's not a set of punches to be ticked off to be in the club. You don't have to have all of every symptom.

oops the title should say without special interests
yeah i am fitting in here, thanks. have you seen a lot of my other posts?
pakled i know.
but even though the special interests aren't necessary, at least per the dsm-iv criteria, they are portrayed that way as described by many sources.

visual-spatial i bet is portrayed like that by some sources.

these are probably allowed but very very infrequent with AS.

oops the title should say without special interests
yeah i am fitting in here, thanks. have you seen a lot of my other posts?
pakled i know.
but even though the special interests aren't necessary, at least per the dsm-iv criteria, they are portrayed that way as described by many sources.

visual-spatial i bet is portrayed like that by some sources.

these are probably allowed but very very infrequent with AS.

I suppose I'm quite differently informed.

There are quite many people with asperger's that have a low performance IQ.

The performance includes various visual-spatial tests. Sometimes matrices, but also putting together designs by using actual blocks, figures and so on.

Some autistic people across the spectrum are great at visual-spatial, but seeing how there are many with AS with a low performance IQ and seeing how also the literature of NVLD suggest that about 80% of those with AS have NVLD/visual-spatial deficits, I don't understand why your profile doesn't fit a type of AS perfectly.

Special interests are indeed also not necessary for diagnosis. Not even relevant in the other manual of medical and psychiatric diagnosis, the ICD-10.

You will just have to fulfil another criterion of the following:

[quote=DSM-IV-TR]
2. apparently inflexible adherence to specific, nonfunctional routines or rituals
3. stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms (e.g., hand or finger flapping or twisting, or complex whole-body movements)
4. persistent preoccupation with parts of objects[/quote]