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So I have posted here before but I have been gone for a while and some stuff have changed.
Every diagnose have been change it feels like and I've just got diagnosed with PDD-NOS, ADHD-I and cyclothymia.
I feel that I don't really know who I am and I can't accept the PDD-NOS diagnos, that's just not me.

I'm 21 years old and live in Sweden. Love japanese culture (especially popular culture).
Well I really don't know what more to write.

Welcome to WP!

Welcome back. What is it about your new diagnosis that you find difficult to accept?

Welcome back to the WP, Chenjiringu.

It's just I'm not like any other of thoose I know with AS, HFA or PDD-NOS. I'm not structured and actually very easy feel traped and very bored from structures, schedules and stuff like that. I have no problem with feeling/reading peoples emotions and I have always heard that I'm very empathic. I do miss the social structure but I think that is more 'cause I don't pay attention or focus on something else. I have never in my intire life taken anything literaly (sp?) and don't have any problem with jokes, sarcasm or irony. I love fiction and usually hate fact and usually barely remember any fact at all. That's what I can remember right now.

Welcome!

I used to be very averse to routine. I felt it stifled my creativity and spontaneity.
I am an emotional, empathetic person. Many aspies are extremely touched by what people feel.
I don't take EVERYTHING literally, but I do sometimes. I often use metaphors and allegories.
I like jokes with irony.

And I'm autistic.

That is not to say you are. But it gives you an idea of how diverse autism can be. I wouldn't have been diagnosed as an aspie if my psychiatrist had based his assessment on the Wikipedia definition.

You may indeed have the wrong diagnosis. But there may equally be sufficient symptoms to lead those who classified you as such to think that you are. What was it about you that led them to that conclusion?

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Welcome!

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Yeah I use metaphors to fairly much. I have a very...eeeh... "artsy" language (don't know how to say the thing we say in swedish in english)

I guess 'cause:
I have problems with dealing with my feelings (more like how to show them properly and stuff like that).
I'm not very social.
I can get very into stuff and talk much about them.
My WAIS profile was very "varied".
I can be very much into my world.
I don't notice all hidden rules (like you should change clothes in the toilet or under your towel after PE).
I'm /apparently) very smart but immature when it comes to emotions and social stuff.
I like to be alone.
I have sensory problems.
I'm clumsy and have some problems with perception.
I'm very stubborn.
I'm naive and childlike, can't think bad about most ppl, especially thoose who say they love me.
I'm either all or nothing.

I think that's all. I can't remember more right now.

I can see why they would say you're autistic, given all that.

YOU WROTE: I don't notice all hidden rules (like you should change clothes in the toilet or under your towel after PE).

I had to giggle a bit about that one. I am South African and at school we used to change clothes in the changing room after swimming, and the girls would walk naked around the change area, e.g when going to the shower area. When I was an exchange student in the USA (Connecticut) I did the same thing, and the other girls looked at me with shock and disdain (they changed in the shower booth). I never had the nerve to ask how on earth they got their clothes into the showers without getting them wet, so I used to try to slip out of the shower and into a toilet really quickly (on the occasions that I remembered).

FWIW, I find the term PDD-NOS to be demeaning; I wish they would come up with a better name for it. Even "Autism NOS" would be OK, in my opinion.

In my first school the girls walked around naked in the changing room but not in my second and third school.
I saw my psychologist today and she think my psychiatist is wrong anf that I have schizotypal personality disorder with traits of borderline and that my social and attentionproblems comes from pre-psychosis. That sounds really really strange to me. I may have to be re-evaluated 'cause my psychiatrist has quit his job and no one knows why and they can't get in touch with him. Sounds so strange but that was what my psychologist said. No I feel just... confused, chaotic and sad.

Hi I'm Brendan. I'm new. I need help. I just lost one of my best friends. she was so cool. I just can't get over it.

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