Salutations! ^_^ (Do I have AS?)

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Hiya!

I am in Australia VIC, female, 19 years of age.

I think I might have AS. I have yet to find a psychologist/psychiatrist that I consider "capable" or with whom I don't mind talking and I consider it a waste of time trying so I guess I'll stay "undiagnosed". Most of my "close friends" seem to think I have it and a few people have asked my friends if I do have it.

- Personality: very strongly INTJ
- Likes: Computers, mathematics, patterns, order, categorising and analysing things/people, books.
- Dislikes: Humans, noise, mess
- As a child (especially 1-5 years of age), I obsessed over my handwriting and dexterity, I never slept during the day, I amused myself by "observing" and "analysing" animals and humans. When I went to kindergarten (when I was 2.5), I thought the other children were "ret*d" and "observed" them - I felt like I was behind a glass wall.
- I have always fit in with people like a blotch of oil in a bucket of water.
- I'm extremely sensitive to sound.
- I tend to have trouble "guessing" what people are feeling towards me. I can tell if they are really angry or happy. If they do not seem "happy" and don't express "like" towards me, I feel as though they are "angry" and "hate" me. I find myself asking people "are you angry?" when they are not acting happy :\ (I try to only ask my close friends as random people might get angry at this question). I'm learning to interpret "angry" and "neutral/happy" signs now and it has helped I think.
- Socializing for me is "learned behaviour" and I often feel very rigid/awkward (and people comment ) I think it seems to come much more "naturally" for people. Sort of like with me finding patterns/maths things "obvious" and "easy" and they find it "hard" and "un-natural".
- I've always been picked on for being "weird" for no appearant reason (to me anyway).
- "Emotional" people either scare me or annoy me... or both. Although I have learned "expressing" emotions for my purposes.
- I am now in a field of work that requires a lot of human interaction, and although I am now coping well, at the start when I encountered social situations or a "sequence of words" I have not encountered before, I seemed to be awkward/silent.
- I have trouble with "keeping" relationships. I think part of the problem is that I find it un-natural and "weird" to express "affection" towards people. I've got relatively "appealing" features that attract a rather large spectrum of people but sooner or later the "normal" ones (which seems like 99.9% of the people I encounter) just think I'm "too shy" and/or that I'm "too weird".
- I'm not sure if I have trouble with "eye-contact". I've been told I "stare into blankness" a lot. Sometimes I feel like I am "staring" at someone in the eyes (I try to keep the "looking in the eyes" at 50-60% of the conversation time but I find "looking elsewhere" awkward and sometimes end up "staring" at them for close to 100% of the conversation time if I'm not careful O_o).

I have only found out about AS recently-ish. Any opinions/comments?

Last edited by m4git3k on 18 Oct 2006, 2:05 am, edited 1 time in total.

Obviously it wouldnt be "ethical" for anyone here to DX someone,but whatever you "have"...I have many similiar traits. I was recently DXed with AS,so......maybe.

Welcome to WP!! !

hi welcome to WP
what does INTJ mean?

as far as having AS, even if you don't you have many traits.

Yay, another INTJ.

A few of us have just turned up on another thread:

"Theory using introvert/extravert" In General Autism Discussion.


You do sound quite like me, and those signs and symptoms would match quite well with AS.
That's not proof, but it is perhaps more than a hint.
Welcome to WrongPlanet.
If you find like minds here, that's going to increase the probablity too!

Last edited by Emettman on 17 Oct 2006, 4:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It could well be AS, welcome to Wrong Planet its a great forum!

Another Aussie!! Wecome to WP!!
You might want to reference Wikipedia for symptomology, but it sounds as though you've already done research. By the way, a lot of people on these boards debate the value of an authentic diagnosis. It's not easy for a therapist to make, and if you went to three different ones, you might get three diagnoses. It's easier to recognize that you're different, and learn from these boards what other people do to deal with it.

Sounds a lot like AS to me.

You're almost exactly like me.

hi I am from Melbourne a good person to go and see to get a DX is Dr. Richard eisenmajer he is expensive but once you have a DX you can get access to services.

Hello and welcome to WP.

Welcome to WP!

I'm new as well, and the best advice I can give you is try to be yourself and beware the word Garlic. (it summons OWA)

I am here

Thanks. What kind of services can I get access to? I *think* I am coping okay-ish with life at the moment and therefore not really being in need of additional "things". I did "pause" education for now but I like my life pattern: sleep, read, work, repeat. I live by myself (I tend to obsess over things always being in the same place so I can't stand living with people) but have a friend helping me with things. If I am to invest time + money in a DX, I'd like to know that I can obtain something of equal or higher value in return.