buryuntime wrote:
Psychiatrists are hesitant to diagnose me with AS because I can't talk in front of them
It looks as if your psychiatrists could not take 10 minutes of their time to realize that selective mutism is really common in females with AS. I had this problem as well. Whenever I was put in a new situation (new person, new place...) I just could not talk. People that knew me when I was a kid would later say things like "you were so quiet we would worry about you." Then when I would finally say something, the comment was always "this was the first time I ever heard you speak." It was made worse because I grew up with an abusive mother. I learned the "just shut up" philosophy as a way to avoid chastisement.
I don't really fit the "verbose" criteria for AS either, but I suppose this is why. On the contrary, I feel more comfortable when I write, so I tend to write better than I speak. Even today, I have a hard time stringing together words, and when I do, the sentences come out broken with bad grammar and poor word choice.
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