Am I not an aspie after all?

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In my new school, I've been noticing I'm having even more trouble in school because I'm not getting the world's best grades. Reading and writing have always been an isue for me, but I never thought it was that big of a deal, so I never mentioned it to anyone. So for the heck-of-it, I looked up 'dyslexia' on google. As I was looking through the symptoms, I was able to relate to just about every single one of them. A couple of the symptoms were similar to the aspergers symptoms. I'm going to ask my guidance councelor tomorrow about being tested for dyslexia. This new discovery makes me wonder if I even have aspergers. I can relate more to the dyslexic symptoms moer than I can the aspergers. Any thoughts?

Hi, I would for one would still very much welcome your participation here at Wrong Planet!

Maybe you are a 'bridge person' so to speak, with some aspie traits but not others, and that is perfectly okay.

And you might even matter-of-factly coach us and help us develop skills, just keeping in mind that it's highly individual and something which works for you may or may not work for someone else but of course you probably already know this.

And maybe for reading and writing, they can teach you some tricks, although not really tricks, just methods. Just additional skills you can add to your skill set.

You could have dyslexia AND mild aspergers. Do you still have some aspie traits that don't apply to dyslexia? If not, then maybe you don't has AS at all, but if you do you are probably borderline. I think dyslexia is closely related to ASDs on the spectrum, from what I've heard about it.

Before finding about Aspergers I was interested about dyslexia. Here is a list of symptoms in which I can identify 99%
http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.htm

However, i see there doesn't mention anything about bullying.

I don't know if there's any comorbidity between them but dyslexia can appear later in life while asperger's is 100% genetic.
I haven't received any diagnosis either of aspergers or dyslexia but I see you have received an actual diagnosis of Asperger's.
What made the doctors to give you this diagnosis?

Now i'm reading Tony Attwood's Book "The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome" and did mention that dyslexia and asperger's can be comorbid.

I have autism and dyslexia