neshamaruach
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"If you're an adult, though, you can go ahead and rate yourself as a child, since that's the basis diagnoses are made on nowadays. If you were an Aspie as a kid, it's probably safe to say that you still are, whether or not you've lost the official diagnosis through learning the skills you were slow on."
This is really great to know. I was looking at the DSM markers and realized how many of them I had as a child, especially the nonfunctional routines. I don't have a lot of those anymore. It's not that I don't want them. It's that having a family kind of throws a wrench into them.
Anyway, I'm going in for my diagnosis tomorrow, and this is very good information to have. Thanks! |
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legendoftheselkie
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Goes like this: the more you learn about Asperger's, the more you feel like you're reading your own autobiography.
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sinsboldly
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I heard a NPR segment and self identified. I could have missed that article, I guess, and then I would have had to learn about it some other way.
but I hadn't until that moment. Life changed immediately.
Merle
PS, I found out I got better reception with the behavioural health community if I didn't TELL them what I 'had'. I got much further by demonstrating it.
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legendoftheselkie
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[quote="poopylungstuffing"]I tried not to "self diagnose" myself...I "self identified"...
I like this way of thinking- we're different, not diseased!
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erikko
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Haven't been diagnosed, nor has my father. But once I read all about AS, I knew instantly that I had it, since I had moderate or full-blown symptoms in every single category. I could tell my father has it too, and his symptoms are worse than mine. Even I can recognize his complete incompetence at social situations, and it's so awkward it's embarrassing. But he has never seen any professionals about this, and he probably won't. I've confided my thoughts about AS in my fiancee but she doesn't really believe me. I think this is because in the past few years (I'm 23 now) I've started to "act" more in social situations, to better fit in, and it's starting to become natural. I've learned, the hard way, to leave the things that interest me out of conversations, and to be less honest and blunt. If she had known me as a 12 year old, I don't think there would be any doubt.
Knowing about AS has finally given some answers about what I've known all along: that I'm different from most people around me. Even if I'm wrong, and the doctors tell me that I don't have AS (when I eventually see one about it), at least I know that I can relate to some people. |
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oblio
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| Spokane_Girl wrote: | How to self diagnose yourself:
Read about Aspergers and find that it fits you and decide that is what you have.
Someone else tells you about the condition and says you have it. You read about it and see that person is indeed right.
Someone else tells you about their condition and telling you the symptoms of it. You realize they fit you too and you decide you have it too. |
Spokane_Girl, i think you're spending waaayyy tooo much time with Fnord
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Danielismyname
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I took the AQ test; scored high, forgot about it for a year or so. Successfully treated the OCD [which was my "problem"], was still having problems even after killing said OCD. Read some stuff on chronic mental disorders (Simple Schizophrenia was my bet), read some more (Autism), read a whole heap more (Autism and Asperger's); asked some questions, asked more questions, and asked a whole heap more questions; all of which pointed to a very narrow set of disorders that I could have and that which was causing me my problems (ASD or SSD). Self-diagnosed, which in turn equated to the "official" thingy.
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Ford_Prefect
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I have read about AS and I have found that I have many traits of it. I took AQ test and I had AQ 36-39 (I took this test repeatedly within the range of some days). I took "aspie quiz" (again repeatedly) and I was somewhere on borderline. I have collected reasons why I am aspie and I found that I am probably aspie. I have collected reasons why I am NOT aspie and I found that I am problably NT. So, I think that I am half-aspie 
(or schizoid)
(or simply socially stupid)
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Daniel41149512
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Watching home videos is the best advice I can give - then making simple notes on what you observe. I made a lot of notes looking back on different areas of my life at different ages and the various symptoms I had then - many of which I have since learned to mask as much as I can.
Try asking your mum a few simple questions like:
When did I start walking and talking? Was I younger than 1 or 2?
Did I used to ask questions a lot / pick up on things?
Did I mostly talk to adults, or other children?
Generally, you will find this will prompt an anecdote which will provide more in depth info.
I had (still have) a similar problem with my parents. Good luck, whatever the outcome. |
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Chaotica
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:27 am Post subject: |
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| legendoftheselkie wrote: | | Goes like this: the more you learn about Asperger's, the more you feel like you're reading your own autobiography. |
 Same here.
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Daniel41149512
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Bloody-hell I'd never actually read the full formal DSM before! I really is like reading a description of myself.
I recommend that! |
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tomboy4good
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I have come to the conclusion that I have AS based on multiple internet tests & research on the subject. I cannot get an accurate DX due to no doctor I have seen can look beyond the depression I have been fighting since I can remember. I was depressed as a kid because everyone pushed me away due to my oddities. (When I say everyone, I mean anyone I had contact with in my life...from my parents on down the line.) I was bullied, beaten up, verbally abused, etc. Who wouldn't be depressed as a kid because of that? Latest attempt over the summer just resulted in another depression DX.
Also, things didn't improve in my teens or adulthood. I've never been able to successfully maintain any friendship ever for any extended periods of time. I don't know how to socialize or fit in, nor have my attempts ever been successful for more than a few moments (due to lack of knowledge in sharing small talk?). I have unusual behaviors that I could never explain (now I know them as stimming). When I have mentioned them to medical professionals, they always gave me strange looks as though I just started speaking pure jibberish.
I find life to be not just contantly depressing, but also very frustrating due to the fact that I just don't fit in with other human beings. "Whatever" I have has made it difficult for me just to get by in life. Success has always eluded me from early childhood. So I just bounce from failure to failure. What I don't understand is why more doctors aren't aware that AS didn't just appear in the early 90s. It just sucks!
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neshamaruach
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| Daniel41149512 wrote: | Bloody-hell I'd never actually read the full formal DSM before! I really is like reading a description of myself.
I recommend that! |
Ain't it amazing? I read it and thought, oh, this is why my life feels like a perpetual traffic jam.  |
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Aguila
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| Thanks for all the tips and ideas! I think I will get started soon. I read the DSM and it does sound more and more like an autobiography. |
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FrogGirl
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| I have known all of my life that there was something different about me than all of the other kids, but i just couldn't figure it out. I have been diagnosed with all sorts of things such as: OCD, borderline personality disorder, eating disorder, depression, Post tramatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, social phobias, body dysmorphic disoreder(don't see your body the way it actually is.ex: you think you look fat and are 5'2" and weigh 70 lbs and 20 yrs old) one dr kept trying to say it was bipolar. I have researched many pages on line and it perfectly describes why my life is the way it is. Its nice to finally have an answer to it all. Nothing else that i looked up seemed to fully fit. Many of the diagnoses werel just parts, and Aspergers explains the whole. I have taken a handful of assesments on liine and I score high probability of aspergers on all of them. I'm going to print all of them, and take them to my Dr. I just got this new dr. in January 2008. My last Dr probably woundn't even take me seriously. His thing was diagnosing everyone with bipolar. My current dr. already said that she is going to see if she can find a specialist in my city area to do the testing. |
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