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I think it was both on the same time. Together with my psychologist she and I came to the same conclusion I could have Asperger's and then later it was confirmed by a doctor specialized in autism.

That's funny... who knew people would do that?

Maybe we can, all together, create a character who embodies the plight of a tormented parent who struggles with the horrible burden of an Asperger child. You know, the parent whose daughter will never be Homecoming Queen or whose son will never be elected Student Body President and "Most Likely To Be Popular". We could detail her story, as she fails teach her clueless child how to laugh at the right time and other tragic frustrations.

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I can relate to that. I had an online friend who seemed to want to have AS all of a sudden so once he started to obsess about it, he got worse and worse and seemed more and more aspie. I think it was an illusion he was doing on himself because the more he worried about rather he had it or not, the worse he got so it seemed like he had all of a sudden got AS by worrying about it. Then he went stalkish on me because he kept harassing me on AIM. I would block him and he would follow me under a different sn. He had so many of them it was impossible to get rid of him unless I created a new sn and stop using my other one. So that's why I have two AIM names. The second one was to ditch the stalker so I wouldn't have to log off and abandon my IM conversations with my other buddies. It was so I could log off and log back on under my new sn.

Yeah he plays the victim too believing everyone is mean to him. I don't know if he genuinely thinks that or he is just saying that to manipulate. Lot of people had problems with him so I knew it wasn't me. I even found out people had problems with him through email so they block him or quit reading his emails and they would just delete them.

Guess what, he did go for a diagnoses but got diagnosed with non verbal learning disorder instead. I don't know if he fooled the doctor or he genuinely has it. I do know he got brain damage after getting hit by a car when he was little so it effected his speech. I don't know if it effected his learning and other stuff. His behavior changed after we started chatting so I didn't even think his behavior was genuine. He changed after he started to obsess about AS and acted more cold hearted and not caring about how I feel and respecting me. I have spoken to lot of aspies online and lot of them didn't act that way.

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I'm self-diagnosed, but I ain't a hypochondriac; I researched the condition properly and my officially-AS friend says that he thinks I have AS. I can tell from my thought patterns that I think like the people on WP, as opposed to the NTs in my class.

I am in the process of getting officially diagnosed, but there's a two year waiting list. The mental health worker said that I don't seem AS-ish (sounds like a case of a person with little experience expecting the Rain Man), but then I took one of those "tick the statements that apply" tests, and she said that judging by my answers I am AS. (Plus I completed the half-hour test in under five minutes, which apparently is most abnormal.)

I personally believe I have AS, but I don't tell that to anyone, not even my husband.

I first heard about AS 6 years ago, when my son was diagnosed. I've spent a large portion of those years reading and researching AS, from all angles. I've read a lot of books by people with AS, about their experiences, and so much of it resonates with me. AS explains so much of my own experience.


I don't feel the need to tell anyone what I think, though. It will always be possible for people to find other reasons why I am the way I am. I was a loner at school, and rarely played with anyone, but my mother saw nothing strange about that, because she's a loner as well. I got good grades, so that wasn't an issue. In high school I got terrible grades and had no idea how to organize my time or work, but no one noticed or cared. I've had a hard time in every job situation, despite being creative and intelligent, because I tend to get confused about what I'm supposed to be doing. I need clear, unambiguous directions for every task, or I become nervous and unsure about whether I'm doing the right thing. AS explains that. If I don't have AS, then what is it that makes me that way? Who knows?

I haven't sought a professional dx, because we have other things going on in our family now, and satisfying my personal curiousity about whether or not I'd official qualify for an AS dx is way, way at the bottom of my priorities list. There are bigger fish to fry.

No one else is affected by me thinking I have AS. But I relate to AS people a whole lot, and it's a useful, meaningful way for me to understand myself a bit better. It fits.

That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

professional dxed me, I never even heard of it before, my mum just told me one night when I was 11.

I was diagnosed by a psychiatrist, at the age of 33.
Until that time, I suspect that no psychiatrist in my
home city had a background in Autism Spectrum Disorders
as we know them today.

Originally assessed at two years by paed. doctors in hope hospital [a specialist hospital in neurology],they avoided autism because their scans had shown up no damage [they believed autism=brain damage],was given a long list of severe behavioral terms instead,as well as blame on mum and dad from them and the gp.
late teens-diagnosed by a mental health pysch who had no experience in developmental/learning stuff -his experience is in actual mental health/illness [even stating this himself] the gp had said he was the most experienced he knew of with autism in manchester,was in and out quick-walked out with a diagnosis of the wrong ASD,ADHD [am dont have ADHD,the parts that look like are clashes from outside of body with autism],he diagnosed 'multiple learning disabilities' as a label to stop using MR.
Adult-diagnosed as severely autistic by autism specialists in traffords learning disability services.

I really hope you're being sarcastic.

I made a film about her years ago.

If I were still Self DX'ed I would find this suggestion really offensive.

Why offense at something that seems to be more common than once thought to be the case. Self-diagnosis of any condition can be potentially dangerous. It's almost as bad a self-dentistry.

this is true.

Self diagnosed.

Autism isn't the super exclusive "invite-only" party a slight minority of you make it out to be.

I was! I was being sarcastic.

Sabbra maybe you're just dillusional since you are not a professional and you have something else otherwise it seems that you would fit in here to this forum but it seems that you don't for some reason.