Tell me why I can't have AS

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snake,

That irritates me too. I mentioned it in another thread. It's hard to get decent feedback when everyone's so quick to quick to say AS.

Exactly. And once a person starts hearing others telling them they have AS, that person just starts looking back in life for more and more ways to prove the symptoms. And at that point, I think even a doctor would have a hard time pulling out the right info and coming to a true conclusion.


I think it can be especially bad for younger people like teenagers. Heck, what teenager hasn't had experiences that would at some point come close to each symptom listed for AS? The question though is how strong are those symptoms. And of course the big question......how many NT symptoms do you have that actually show that you do NOT have Asperger's.



People normally just post the symptoms that match them from the AS list. Everyone in the general public can do that. So members read 20 symptoms from the person asking and think "yup, sounds like me, you got it!"



That's kind of scary actually. It can really change a person's life being diagnosed wrong like that. I think this website should make it VERY clear that other members shouldn't try to diagnose new members. It could really be bad for some.

Thanks again for all the replies

Snake and Erich: You might be right (I certainly hope so). That's why I put all the reasons why I thought I couldn't have AS at the top - like the girlfriend thing. I'm not eager to get a diagnosis for anything, it just seemed like it MIGHT explain some things about myself that have always bothered me. But I would never take an internet diagnosis very seriously anyway, and I wouldn't try to diagnose myself. If I decide that there's something to this, I'll see a specialist to get evaluated.

Like you say, the severity of the symptoms is the deciding factor, and that's pretty impossible to decide either way on a web forum. My main reason for making this post is that I've had big problems with social interaction all my life (yeah, in spite of the girlfriends, you'll just have to take my word for it). In general, being extremely nervous and depressed, feeling different and not knowing how to act. I was bullied every day until I was about 15. My best friend in school says I was indescribably weird (his words). When I add this to my behavior as a child I feel like I have a reason to be worried (being rude to strangers, precocious, unusual interests, and so on). I also remember a journal I kept as a kid on a family trip, that I was really embarrassed about later. The whole thing was a listing of exact times and the roads we took to get to different places. Not a single personal observation anywhere.

But I might be overreacting, like you say. I'm certainly keeping that in mind.

Well, one more thing: I was actually called the professor in grade school (seriously), and this was a looong time before anybody in my class had heard about AS.

Sounds just like me, less social problems but kind of that detached feeling. I am diagnosed but I did panic the other day when I saw a clip of the boy inside (see thread in general discussion) he had very little intuition I go threw phases of am I are'nt I. I have sensory issues, social phobia, no partner, fixations etc but I can read non-verbal stuff, good sense of humour, detail orientated thinking. Mmm its a big spectrum and I think you are on it me dear, you are lucky you have had relationships what kind of profession are you in?

Hi, fresco I'm a freelance translator, working at home.