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Good day to all. I'm from Russia and I still don't know about myself too much to define myself as aspie or not. So I just want to know more about AS and hope to understand this phenomena better.

Now let me to write some about my life.

So, I was diagnosed as having MBD at 2 years old but cognitive and group therapy were effectless. I always considered to be "weird" from earliest age. I preferred to communicate with books and reference books rather than with children. My first kind of "special interest" was enthomology and started when I was 5 years old and this was not only catching the butterflies and grasshoppers but deep research work with understanding many "professional" terms and skills. My parents were concerned by my total obsession with my interest and after visit to psychotherapist they received such recommendation: "There are nothing wrong with him, but such intense exercices in such unusual scientific area may be not so good". Then after several years I abandoned enthomology but obsessed with another thing - the Transformers. Such intensive interest to the most common hobby among many of my school pals made me "geek" and "strange dude" - so I became a kind of "lone wolf" in my school. The next of my interest was fishing - and this was again a kind of total obsession. Many people started to consider me "not normal" and I quickly became a stranger again. After 3 years the new obsession started with home plants - and I turned my apartment into large greenhouse with up to 40+ species of rare plants. I was considered a "nerd" and was bullied for many years in school and university.

The next (and last ) obsession started when I was 20 years old. This was interest to the High Renaissance culture and musical instruments. Now I'm 26, I have a large collection of musical instruments (29 instruments), deeply study the organbuilding and the evolution of medieval and renaissance instruments. This interest occupies almost all my free time. I finished post-graduate and now works with my dissertation and ready to became a PhD.

So why I suspect that I have AS:

1. Total obsession with my interests;
2. Lack of social skills;
3. Many types of stimming activities;
4. Sometimes I suffer from sensory overload - especially in the noisy and bright rooms and when being in a large noisy crowd.

I passed many tests, including Aspie Quiz, AQ, BAPQ, RAADS-R. In all tests I have a very high results. I have an Aspie Quiz diagram but now I can't post it. My aspie score is 142 from 200 and NT score is 61 from 200.

I have no qualified psychiatrists in my city and I may only guess about my current state. I would be glad if somebody will help me to understand better.

With my respect
Alexander

P. S. sorry if my English is not so good.

Welcome to WP, Alexander. You're among friends here.

<----- Has 15 musical instruments himself.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welkome to WP

Mick

Wow, great to hear from someone from Russia! What part are you from?

"Dobri Dyen" (sorry,I don't have Cyrillic script )

If you don't have access to psychiatrists in your city,then you are probably as well qualified yourself to assess whether you have AS.
Many people on WP including myself have done self-diagnosis,for whatever reason,after careful study of all the facts and other possible conditions.

By the way,your English is fine -better than some native speakers.

Your English is fine!
Very interested in Russia

Hello from Canada

I'm from South Siberia - almost near the border of Khazakhstan.



Well, now I have a recommendation from my psychotherapist and can consult with private psychiatrist. There are several things which I still afraid:

1. My parents which thinks that I'm absolutely "normal" (i. e. NT) concerned by my interest to ASD;
2. The effect of post-diagnostical regression;
3. The influence of diagnosis on my life - job, driving etc.;
4. The diffuculty of the "reborning" process - i. e. adoption of myself in a totally new quality.

By the way, could be results of a self-diagnostic reliable?

Hello from Southern California,

Your English is very good. My mother's side of the family is in the former Moldavian SSR (Moldovia/Bessarabia).

Regarding:

1. My parents which thinks that I'm absolutely "normal" (i. e. NT) concerned by my interest to ASD;
-- I can relate to that. I was in obvious distress throughout my teenage years and into my early twenties, but my parents did not seek help for me. I stopped resenting them for that long ago. All parents do the best they are capable of. Mine were from an earlier generation that was more fearful of psychological problems. Perhaps your parents are like that. Try to show understanding toward them.

2. The effect of post-diagnostical regression;
-- I'm not sure if I would worry about this, but hopefully you can discuss it with your therapist/psychiatrist.

3. The influence of diagnosis on my life - job, driving etc.;
-- At first I was eager to tell everyone about my diagnosis. After informing family and close friends, and my supervisor at work (who I trust), I have since become more careful. One trait that I have long recognized in myself is naivete, which has gotten me into much trouble in the past. A friend has called me "gullible," which hurt my feelings at the time, but that is just a synonym for "naive." So I would caution you to be careful about what you say unless you trust a person, especially at work.

4. The diffuculty of the "reborning" process - i. e. adoption of myself in a totally new quality.
-- This is an interesting point. I would think that this is a process that is unique to every individual.

By the way, could be results of a self-diagnostic reliable?
-- Given your obvious intellectual abilities and educational accomplishments, together with the fact that no one knows you better than you do yourself, I believe that you can have confidence in a self-diagnosis. I have gone through the self-diagnosis process and am also seeking confirmation through testing.

I work with research psychologists involved with autism among other things. This is all a fascinating adventure. Good luck to you.

I understand how it can be difficult to adapt when you realise you may be on the autistic spectrum,but in the long run it's better to know because you can then assess your areas of strengths and weaknesses,learning how to work around them and try to improve skills.

When I first read about AS,the revelation was like a light suddenly being switched on in my head.The more facts and examples of behaviour that I read about,the more I instinctively knew it fitted my own situation.Even so,with my logical way of thinking,I still spent more than a year studying AS and other similar conditions before I concluded that I had it. It was the combination of many examples that convinced me,even down to small details from my childhood,such as the way I walked in public without swinging my arms (one of the possible recorded traits of AS).
At my age it would be difficult to get a formal diagnosis,because over the years I've learned how to act 'normal' to some degree and it would need the testimony of school teachers from 40 years ago to explain how unusual my behaviour was then.In any case,doctors are
not infallible - I once told my local doctor that I suspected I had a stress fracture in my foot - he dismissed my suggestion completely
'because you're not an athlete'. It was only when I could no longer walk and took myself to hospital that an X ray confirmed I had a broken foot !

Привет Александр

I was born in Yekaterinburg!! ! An then adopted at 18 months

Hello to all fellow countrymen

Well, I just went from private psychiatrist with the diagnosis "Obsessive-compulsive disorder"... This is quite unexpectedly for me as I never had the connection between my thoughts and stimming activities. I can do stimming even in calm and halcyon state - on the other hand I never twist pen or my foam ball when being upset or disturbed. Although psychiatrist said that I have several symptoms of AS, but he also said that NT could not "read" the inner state of autistic people - so If he felt my inner state, I'm not in spectrum.

As I red before, such things as MBD, OCD and ASD have many common features. Now I still in doubt, but think that I have BAP rather than AS or OCD. On the other hand one man from russian asperger's community said that in Russia no one mature man or woman could not be diagnosed as having ASD.

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