Can I really have AS? My symptoms.

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Hello Irulan
I would interpret your symptoms as AS. The decription you give of periods of sleep difficulties for a week and whirling thoughts suggests bi-polar. It is not a rare co-diagnosis with Asperger's.

Have you taken any of the several online tests for Aspergers? That is what convinced me to get diagnosed since I scored higher than AS (I am actually HFA) I don't want to know how my English is as I have been told I have an accent and can't speak correctly as you do. AS includes more verbal ability that I have available. Yours is fine.

It's a refreshing awareness to find out someone took the trouble to dig out my old thread and was interested in reading this I'm sure I don't have bipolar disorder. Anyway, I have just checked the description in Wikipedia and I don't fit. Speaking of sleep difficulties, they came back again For about a week I wake up about 3.30 in the middle of the night and I have problems with falling asleep again.

I took a lot of tests available online and even though I didn't have really high score, they indicate I may have it (for example for the last time my aspie score was 154 of 200 while my NT score was 66 of 200, my Baron-Cohen test score is 31 points and having taken part in Roger Meyers' test I had 94 of 135 points).

Looks like reasonable evidence
I don't know what Roger Meyer test you took. I got 13.3 of 15. Maybe there is another version that I can't find, so can't say on that one.
Go for a diagnosis if you want one or think it would help for services
Or just be 'self-diagnosed' and validated by your peers.
The best thing is knowing you are not unique, next is having like-minded persons to communicate with.
Knowing cured most of my anxiety and all my depression.

I was trying to find that test but I couldn't in spite of a long searching the Web. I never heard about that version of it you're speaking about. Do you have the link to it? I'm planning to do something about diagnosis but I won't be able to do it in the closest time because I don't earn money on my own. Generally doctors in my country don't have knowledge about AS and a doctor chosen at a guess may also belong to this group, especially as I live in a small town and here or even in close area I won't find a specialist for sure. I'd like to have a diagnosis but I don't want any benefits from this. It's strange, indeed, there's a possibility I may have AS. Watching films with a motive of an autistic child (a popular stereotype; in all those movies there were only children showed and all of them had LFA) unconsciously I was congratulating myself that in contrast to those movies' characters I was far from autism not less than Sahara desert's far from Antarctica (in terms of geographical position and climate ). It's a veritable irony

Btw, today I read a thread written by parents of 18 years old boy with AS. According to them, his IQ is only 76; he doesn't have any interests (his dad took an attempt to make him interested in computer games, hoping this way the boy'd pal up with somebody when he had some common ground to talk to other young people but he wasn't eager to do this because even turning the computer on and entering the game is too big mental effort for him ) The boy's mother having read posts on that forum was flabbergasted it's possible to have AS and not to be so low functioning Having read that description I'd think the boy had LFA while his parents claim he's diagnosed with AS

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I think that the autor of this topic definately has a form of AS. It is really interesting case. I have some similarities with it. Although she looks more gifted and mature than I, and not kooky, I think that she has worse "aucorigia" (developmental condition with autocontrast (asynchronous development) and originality ("bizarrities")) than me.

I am scholastically quite versatile (but I found people with similar problems who had better scholastic achievements), she looks more intelligent and she has for me other type of something, which I named "hyperlogia", it is more "intelligent" sort of ASD than traditional, "rigid" one described by Kanner which may looks as "just giftedness". It may cause learning and motor problems, but it is much more than visual-spatial-motor disorder ("true" NLD). Hyperlogia (at least in it severer forms) is really impairing condition, I think that many cases of it are misdiagnosed and misnamed as "nonverbal learning disorder". Obsessiveness, social ineptitude, emotional (or even thinking) disturbances and pecularities, sensory problems, "activity" disorders (such as stimming, hyperkinetic behaviors, hyperactivity, ADD, SCT, ADHD (hyperactivity), social problems (such as dyssemia, but also other social difficuties) are not symptoms of LD, but of PDD.

Not all cases of ASD are Kanner-like.

Hey there, we don't allow here necro posting aka reviving old threads from several years ago.