If it is not AS what could it be?

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02 Oct 2006, 7:08 am

I am being diagnosed for AS in two weeks, if they decide i have not got AS, what are the other alternative conclusions.

I meet the DSM criteria for AS, and have all the symptoms of AS.

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02 Oct 2006, 7:18 am

stripey wrote:

I meet the DSM criteria for AS, and have all the symptoms of AS.

Then you probobly got it :roll:

Hmm.. other conditions...

Adhd/add, ocd,ocdp,avoidant/shizoid/bordeline/narsistic personality disoster to name a few.

Did you had all the symptoms of as as a child?

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02 Oct 2006, 7:25 am

I cannot remember earlier childhood certainly from 7 years upwards i have been the same.

My mother said i was very quiet and made little eye contact ,when i was very young she was always asking if i was OK.

I do have OCD as a secondary trait.

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02 Oct 2006, 8:37 am

Schizotypal disorder

I believe I was misdiagnosed with it.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/asperger.htm ... ight=sound

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02 Oct 2006, 8:53 am

I wonder if I have Narcicist Personality Disorder? I seem to be very into myself, lately.

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02 Oct 2006, 9:04 am

I am pretty sure i have AS, i am into myself alot, but i do have a flat/monotone voice would this trait exclude me from other diagnosis.

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02 Oct 2006, 10:22 am

High-functioning autism, maybe?

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02 Oct 2006, 10:41 am

Schizotypal Personality Disorder has many similarities to AS, minus the obsessions. The reason I lean toward AS with myself is because I have obsessions, though I meet the criteria for SPD too.

OCD is also very similar to AS in characteristics.

Narcissists tend to have excellent social and manipulative skills, so I don't see the similarity between AS and NPD.

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02 Oct 2006, 11:09 am

Schizoid personality disorder (although I don't actually believe in personality disorders the same way I'd believe in something like autism) is a lot like autism too.

But, if they decide you're not autistic, it doesn't mean you're not.

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02 Oct 2006, 2:02 pm

Can someone with schizoid personality disorder record autistic results on online tests?

I have done Aspie quiz and Baron Cohen tests and every test said i was Aspergers.

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02 Oct 2006, 2:07 pm

I don't know, in part because I'm not so sure about the whole construct of "personality disorders".

I'm sure they could though.

DSM wrote:

A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

# neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family
# almost always chooses solitary activities
# has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person
# takes pleasure in few, if any, activities
# lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
# appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
# shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity

Note that when this is diagnosed a lot of times the psychiatrist makes assumptions about the person's desires and motivations. (So that if a person doesn't look socially interested -- even if they are -- and doesn't show a lot of emotion, and doesn't show their reactions to people, etc, then it's assumed this is because of this, sometimes.)

There's at least considerable overlap which is why they exclude people with "pervasive developmental disorders" from diagnosis.

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02 Oct 2006, 2:26 pm

stripey wrote:

I am being diagnosed for AS in two weeks, if they decide i have not got AS, what are the other alternative conclusions.

I meet the DSM criteria for AS, and have all the symptoms of AS.

If the GP allow me to be diagnosed, I will be diagnosed and if he dignoses me as an NT. I will not take nun of that s**t from him noman. If he does not want to diagnose me as NT because he thinks I would be incriminating myself with a disability, I might understand. If you are a true Aspie, your views will not change because an NT tills you anything else.

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02 Oct 2006, 3:38 pm

stripey wrote:

Can someone with schizoid personality disorder record autistic results on online tests?

I have done Aspie quiz and Baron Cohen tests and every test said i was Aspergers.

Online tests aren't to be trusted too far. I went to a psychology website yesterday which had online tests for a variety of different disorders. According to that website, I scored positive for Depression, Anxiety Disorder, BiPolar, an eating disorder, ADHD and OCD. The only test that they had that I didn't score positive for was schizophrenia.

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02 Oct 2006, 3:48 pm

I have done more research on SPD there are similarities but i have physical traits such as lack of eye contact, monotone voice , involuntary hand wringing.

To complicate matters more what would happen if your mother had obsessive traits and your father was SPD, and you inherited both sets of traits, how would you separate this from Autism.

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02 Oct 2006, 4:31 pm

stripey wrote:

Personality disorders aren't really heritable. OCD appears to be, though.

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02 Oct 2006, 5:31 pm

It would appear as though SPD and other disorders evolve from the personality while AS,OCD, and the thing where faces are familiar when you have just meet them have something to do with brain wiring.

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