Tell me why I can't have AS

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LePetitPrince: You guys might be right. I guess it's a bit hopeless to do a diagnosis by webforum... I'm not ruling out AS completely, but ADD might fit the bill better. Time to try to find a specialist, I suppose.

About the girlfriends... Hard to say anything about this without sounding like a total a**hole :p I'm a fat slob these days, and not exactly gorgeous. But back in the old days I was reasonably good-looking. I was really good at playing the guitar as well, which helped a lot back then :p I played in a band, and had this slightly mysterious image as the quiet and wise outsider...I am told. Never picked up a girl sober, though. I needed alcohol to steady my nerves.

The test in Wired seems to be broken. Here's my score from the other one. No idea what it means...

RBI =6
SI=6
L=1.5
POC=7.75
IR=8
RP=0.5
S=2.5
M=2.25

lupin,

Thanks. I've heard about that but didn't know about Dr. Dinklage. It makes a lot of sense to me since I seem to have and lack qualities of each.


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Re: girlfriends. I had a girlfriend pretty young but she was a friend of my sister, and I never kissed her so she broke up with me. Actually, all of my girlfriends besides my current one I met through my sister. There was the one I dated after that. My first girlfriend set me up with her. I decided before we went out on the date that at the end I would kiss her so I could get it over with. Then there was one of my sister's friends who came onto me. And then skip ahead until after HS when I went to a NAMI function for young adults. I got an IM from someone who saw my e-mail on a list we all filled out. After about a month we started dating and it was four years I think a week or two ago. It was in July so it must have been two weeks.

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These are the results of my test:



# Repetitive or restricted Behaviours and Interests (RBI) - Stereotyped, repetitive behaviours and interests
# Social Impairment (SI) - Social understanding
# Language problems (L) - Speech, words and sentences
# Planning, Organization and Concentration problems (POC) - Cognitive skills related to being able to plan, organise and stay focused
# Imaging and Recall problems (IR) - Visualisation, imagination and remembering past events
# Reasoning and Problem solving problems (RP) - Cognitive skills related to rational deduction and working things out
# Sensory problems (S) - Impact of senses
# Motor problems (M) - Control of own movement

RBI =5
SI=6.25
L=5.25
POC=5.75
IR=2.5
RP=5.5
S=4.75
M=3.5

When I was a child I would have scored a lot worse for M, S and SI but I've gone through OT and PT that included the desensitization exercises that have been discussed on the forum.

Ah, didn't notice that I could paste the pretty picture in here. Does this mean anything...? The high imaging score is because I can't really see pictures in my mind.

Since nobody answered the question about the difference between AS interests and normal interests, I'm going to try to do it myself :p My guess is that the difference isn't in the intensity of the interest - a lot of normal people can be totally obsessed with their football team, or whatever - but in the narrow range of interests. AS people care less about what's not related to their interests than other people do. Does this sound about right, or have I misunderstood completely?

Hmm, by your descriptions I reckon your HFA/AS

hmm this is another link for the AQ test : http://www.msnbc.com/modules/newsweek/a ... efault.asp

Ok, I took it a couple of times, and got 29-31 on that one. I tried not to exaggerate in any way. I know I score lower because I have no interest in math or numbers and I don't seem to have any of the OCD stuff. I'm a bit confused about the distinction between noticing the big picture or details as well. How can you tell? I have no idea :p

Last edited by Stitch on 13 Aug 2007, 10:26 am, edited 1 time in total.

It's the most popular stereotype that a person with AS is excellent at math - on the opposite, one with AS can have dyscalculia as well (I was simply horrible at math and besides I have a BIG number of traits associated with ASD - here I wrote down all my traits.






Personally, I quickly look at a general picture firstly but later I become more interested in particular details of it, they attract my attention more.

I get that. First the little details overwhelm me and I can't take them in, but then later I'll pick up on all the details. A good example is when I read a book of Sri Aurobindo's integral thoughtt a few months ago. The first time I picked it up I really hated it because of all the new ideas and jargon. I decided for myself that I was much happier with Thich Nhat Hanh, which I was reading at the same time, because he gets to the point, states things clearly and simply. But couple weeks later I picked up the book of Aurobindo and enjoyed it much more. I read most of the book without reading anything else and started working his concepts and jargon into the things I was writing.

One thing that causes me to doubt AS a little, or maybe it's just that I cope in a different way than most, is that if I hear someone talk a lot, or I come across some writing, I'll be more drawn to the core ideas and the presentation than to the little details. But then if someone asks me to explain that core I'll be unable to do so and usually repeat brief passages almost verbatim.

I've just recalled something - I study English and we have a reading course at school. Every time our teacher gives us a short story to read and translate all those words we don't understand at home and later we discuss that story. Before a lesson start I'm usually surrounded by other girls from my group asking me what a text was about. I am always extremaly detailed, I never explain the core of a story to them but I describe EVERYTHING what happened in a story.

that seems to be something that ASers and ADDers drastically differ in...

the ASer will have trouble bring all of the details together to a "core", and the ADDer will have trouble remembering many of the details.

I, most likely a member of the ADDer club, was in a reading course where you had to read a passage and then summarize it to a partner, and while everyone else kept saying what they remembered, I only had the crucial stuff remembered as well as a random detail here or there. but I couldn't say half the stuff as the rest of the NT crowd. I'm guessing that the NT crowd couldn't say half the stuff as the ASers.

I'm sure there's exceptions, but I think that''s kind of the way it goes.

for reference, this was my plot:


on the "Aspie quiz"
Aspie: 71
Neurotypical: 136

Thanks, psychotic. That doesn't sound exactly like me, I guess. I always did brilliantly in school because I could remember every little detail... I suck at telling stories, though, I always get them wrong, somehow. On the other hand, I never remember where I put anything :p Going to my parents now for a week or two. I'll see if I can get anything out of them... Thanks, and cya

Remember that not having anything diagnosable is another possibility... it doesn't seem like your issues may be extended enough to get you the Asperger's diagnosis.

best of luck!

I vote for HFA or inattentive ADD or ADHD combined type. I have been doing research on this as well lately, and both of these are known for very bad procrastination.

Try these:

http://www.answers.com/topic/high-functioning-autism

http://www.adda-sr.org/reading/Articles ... entive.htm

Actually, those 2 questions made perfect sense to me. I have never been able to stop picking at my scabs ever since I was a young child. As for slowly flowing water, I have had as many as 14 fish aquariums set up at any given time. There must be something about the water flowing from the filters that I find soothing.

My quiz results:
Your Aspie score: 179 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 28 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Stitch, don't listen to the people here, theyr just overly excited to diagnose someone with asperger. Your no aspie, I'm not coming down on you in any way though, not being autistic isn't necessarily anything to be ashamed of. I seriously doubt your an aspie, you said you've had girlfriends your whole life, that makes it automatically statistically almost impossible.
To everyone else on here, you've got to stop just telling everyone who comes on here who says they might be aspie that theyr aspie, not everyone is aspie. This is probably part of the reason why there are so many false aspies running around here. This dude Stitch is almost certainly no aspie at all. That's not a bad thing necessarily, as I stated before. And by all means, if Stitch is interested in making some aspie friends, then he is more than welcome to stay. But he's not an aspie.