Do I really have full asperger's?

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I think it's a matter of how you choose to define it. the underlying neurological traits that promted the intial diagnosis are probably still there, but you've probably adapted to them so that they're less noticeable.

but as far as the clinically significant impairmnet goes, I've been hung up on that myself so I asked a psychiatrist about it. he said basically it means that only a trained professional can judge the level of impairment.

you may not feel impaired right now, but maybe you've chosen to NOT include certain things in your life because you know that you AS-traits would make it difficult or impossible. in that case AS is impairing you in the sense that you are unable to choose things in your life that would be possible for an NT.

I imagine that someone can be diagnosable as a children but not as an adult by another reeason: social demandings for children are higher than for adults, then, the same behaviours can be considered very severe in a children and a simple excentricity if they occur in an adult.

Examples:

- when you have a "coffe break" at your job, it is considered "normal" to go take the coffe (or toeat, or whatever) alone or only with one or two friends/co-workers.

- if, at the playground, a schoolchildren spend his time playing alone (or only with one or two friends), usually this is considered a "severe" problem of social interaction.

I saw something in the paper that in about 10%, autism in curable. Maybe you were cured.

I know that is a hot topic on here.

I have seen articles that it is not as well.

So I do't know where you stand on that issue, but because so much of our real expereinces are on;y as much as what we interpret it to be, well, maybe you were cured!

Look, you can have a lower score on the AQ test or the Aspie test and not be an Aspie/HFA, but you can still have problems functioning in society. The best thing you can do is to get some help and getting a diagnosis as soon as possible to get to know your strengths and weaknesses, then work on your weaknesses.

If you do that, you may not have to go through the same misery that some of us here have gone through.

Well, if you got all of that just a bit you'd present as pretty moderate or low-functioning I'd think.

No way I'm low functioning. I've already completely overcome my social problems. Hyperactivity, introversion and emotional intensity aren't problems at all.

TPE2: I'm a teenager, it's the hardest now.
Sorenna: Maybe caught up in certain areas of development, though I was always considered mild.

I think it is possible to grow out of certain symptoms. As a young child I had very severe sensory issues, especially auditory. Between the ages of 2 and 5 I found virtually all music extremely unpleasant. My parents couldn't even take me to restaurants because the noise was too much to bear. Now I enjoy listening to some really intense and dissonant music.

It's possible you have mild PDD with high introversion and social anxiety. It isn't impossible to grow out of PDD symptoms. My father diagnoses children with PDDs and recent statistics show that about 20 percent of children who have PDD symptoms at a young age grow out of them at a later age.

I used to have social anxiety but it got so much easier when it went away. Nowadays I'm usually as social as many NTs. I'm just a normal introvert, not totally living in my own head LOL.
I think very mild high functioning AS is what I've got. Much milder than the average diagnosed aspie but not quite NT.