Not diagnosed yet - not seeking it!

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Hi, I am new as well and this is my first post.

Female, 27, not diagnosed yet but not seeking it. Been weird since birth and have been steadily getting worse, have had a range of nonesense from various doctors and psychologists. Don't consider aspieism/autism a 'psychological' condition anyway and have noticed they all have a different way of diagnosing it based on their own personal opinions. Thus psychology is nothing more than elaborate opinion gathering and unreliable psuedoscience (remember they used to think people with epilepsy were mad before they realised/accepted it was a neurological condition).

So I am not wasting my time with any more of these wannable scientists and have gone looking for real scientific methods of 'diagnosis'. Have recently been diagnosed with a medical, hormonal condition affecting the adrenal glands called Primary Aldosteronism (PA). This is diagnosed by blood tests so is real and NOT based simply on anyone's opinions of my behaviour.

There is at least one other person on here who also has it and it seems that hormonal conditions are more common amoungst aspieism/autism especially the females. PA elevates hormones which have androgen activity (testosterone etc) which fits with the extreme male brain/excess testosterone cause of aspieism/autism from Simon Baron-Cohen. Have taken his EQ/SQ test and come out extreme systemiser (higher than most males and all normal females) 3 times and the AQ test - taken 5 times and scored: 35,36,37,36 and 42 last time. Now am in process of reading two of his books to study his theories fully.

Unfortunately tho, have now developed minor obsession with him as a result...

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Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Hi, welcome! I'm new too, and am not likely to get an official dx anytime soon - but more because of financial reasons than anything.

I'd be interested in knowing more about your findings on the hormonal aspect of AS. As a female, I have my suspicions about that, as well. My symptoms seem to fluctuate a lot, and meds seem to have almost no influence when they do. Please feel free to post any info on here.

Thanks!

Just spent like half an hour composing lots of info on the hormone imbalance theory of autism that I am working on with some really good links to the current research but then I got an error msg saying I can't post links until I have either posted 5 times or been registered 5 days and then the whole post disappeared!! !! !! !! !!

Gutted. Will try again in a few days God willing...or start it under a new topic to draw more people in...

That's ok - no rush! I'm not sure I'll have a much of a chance to read it all right away anyhow..