When is AS not AS or, "Whats Up With My New Doctor?&quo

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I had a doctors visit this morning. I've been transfed over by a departing therapist. Last week I met this new Doctor and he reiterated whay he said when he first met me. That I didn't strike him as being AS and he had AS patients before.
I was reminded of the scene from "One Flew Over the Cuckoos' Nest" where Nicolson asks the Doctor "What do you want me to DO?"
I consider this forum to have a higher level of expertise. So Can somebody tell me what do they call AS when it's a mental illness rather than a developmental disorder?
I've been diagnosed once. I scored high on the AS test linked by WP. I have a disabling lack of mainstream social abilities. I'm hypersensitive to sound. I have indepth knowledge of certain areas and no intrest in most others.
Am I the the mentally ill end result of a violent childhood that was caused by selfish parents and a cruel school system or were my parents also afflicted and I earned my peer abuse and alienation.
Input please?

Ask him to define exactly what doesn't "strike" him as AS.

I've gotten this alot too...I think it's pretty difficult as we get older for Dr's to place us in a neat little category. We've had years to learn what and what not to do...and how to adapt.

I don't initially "strike" someone as AS either, my ex-husband still believes I was just trying to torture him for 10 years and I'm anti-social.

I'm sure if those therapist that insist "it can't be so" came to live with me for a couple of days they would probably be changing their tune rather quickly.

They can call it what they want, attribute it to whatever past trama they "feel" it might be. You know yourself better than anyone...what do YOU think?

Don't rely on family doctors knowing about mental health or NDD/PDDs. Some do but you shouldn't expected. I just got a ridiculous letter by I GP I don't even see any more. About a letter I delivered by hand to the surgery over 6 months ago. They apparently lost it, but a month later they told me the found it. Meanwhile I got fed up with said doctor for sitting on his hands and asked to transfer to another one who has actually helped me. So that was the last of it I thought. Well I receive this letter with no explanation as to why he has sent it given that he already said he had received the letter 4-5 months before. So that implies that he lied. On top of that even though, he said he was passing it on which is what he was supposed to do in the first place, he though it necessary to express his opinion on this even though he has no idea what he is talking about or what development there have been since then. What more he thought my GP would mirror his sentiments, which has not been the case at all. I wrote him an angry letter back. I might post it.

Good advice: If you know a family doctor that is also a paediatrician go with them. It doesn't matter if you and adult. You may have to wait a bit longer because they tend to be busier but they have more training on PDDs.

Contrary to popular opinion, doctors don't know everything, and they're frequently wrong.

"Beenthere" asked me what I thought.
I feel like I'm taking a step 15 years backward in therapy.
The Social Worker I had benn shortly assigned to as a therapist is leaving soon for a more prefered position. Last week I came in and told her I had'nt been taking the new anti-depressant for a week ( Edgy and insomnia, + not helping ith depression)and I wasn't sure if I wanted to go back on Zoloft becuse in the month since I'd been off it I felt different. I suspected the "encreased mental energy" it caused made me more hypertalkitive which in conjunction with AS social problemstwas bad. Also since my memory wasn't so good on the stuff I could'nt remember any of the social lessond I had learned the hard way.
I wanted to give her a big sloppy hug after she came back with, " You dont HAVE to be on any medication."
Then she introduces me to my new doctor and I brought him up to date on the conversation and he says "Well, we'll see what else we can try."
My heart sank.

I've been down a similar path...usually recommended to therapy for help overcoming my "social difficulties"...my "social anxiety".

I was unable to tolerate the side effects of the few meds that where prescribed, they only made me feel worse...I had a very scary reaction with zoloft...even after that I still heard..."well let's try this new one".

Basically I finally said "enough". A degree on the wall, 10 years of psychology, and prescription pad does not mean you know "exactly" how I feel, or exactly how my mind works, nor does it give you a right to play medication roulette with me. You have the right to refuse anything you feel is detrimental to your well-being...you have the right to say..."I don't think this is working out...can you refer me to someone else?" Sometimes we forget that...I know I did.

Take care, and I hope things start looking better for you soon.

Funny thing is I hear anti depresants are supposed to be a short term thing. I was never told that.Once ,overseas, when I was getting a prescription filled the doctor said I was too young to be depressed. Lke I've said elsewhere on these forms, we are supposed to trust them yet we are the experts. If you had kidney stones and went into the doctor and he said you're dinking too much Pepsi, stop it, you'd do it right. Why do we have to second guess so much of what Psychs say?
I called earlier today at the clinic and said I dic'nt feel comfortable with a therapist who intended to ignore a previous professional diagnosis. Who knows what I'll get next.