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Oh okay, makes some sense. I just feel like I should be asking which came first, "the chicken or the egg"? Does less sunlight really cause SAD? Or does SAD cause people to get less sunlight? I just can't imagine feeling less socially crippled because of a lamp... what's wrong with actual sun? Can't see how that wouldn't be like 340933 times better.

Oh, my GAWD, Krista! I wretched for months behind a tv show of how they made bread in Tuscany and I thought I was going to DIE, it gave me frights and tight chests and dry heaves when ever I thought about it and I couldn't stop myself from thinking about it!

yes! I understand. It was last year I found out about my own AS by listening to a story on NPR's "All Thing Considered". you could have knocked me over with a feather! Decades and Decades and I watched other people grow up all around me. . but I never did.

Welcome Home, Krista, is we have Seasonal Affective Disorder up here in the Pacific North West too.
Merle

Wow! This is why I love this place... Screw that bread!

When I was 15, I read an autobiography of an austic girl and found it shockingly relatable. I did many of the weird things that she did. This piqued my curiosity because I knew my parents had decided something was wrong with me when I was little. They were always taking me to psychiatrists and giving me tests, including an EEG, but they never told me what was going on. They just said, "You're very smart, but you're different." So I broke into my father's filing cabinet and found out yes, indeed, I had been suspected of having autism, but they diagnosed me with ADD instead because I learned to talk at a young age and had a big vocabulary. I wondered if I really did have autism, but I kept that thought to myself for fear of being institutionalized or something.

Then, years later, I heard an interview with a woman who had autism on NPR. Once again, her story was strikingly similar to my own life. But when I looked up the medical definition of autism, it didn't match. It said autistic people can't be creative or good with language. Later, I learned about AS, also on NPR. I thought that might be a better fit. For a few years, I would occasionally look up the diagnostic criteria for AS and wonder if you could have it and still be creative. Then I came here and discovered that a lot of people with AS are creative. So in a few weeks, I'm going to the doctor to see if I officially have AS or HFA.

Nice to meet you, Krista.

Nice avatar pic.

I heard the same story! It came on the radio while driving home. My father was driving and we were both completely stunned, it felt like i stopped breathing for fear I would miss something important. We had to pull over as neither of us was in any state to drive - my dad was crying. I couldn't get enough information and immediately googled it and discussed it with my mother who works in the mental health sector, she said she had suspected for a while and was glad I found it on my own.

Is it possible to get SAD in the summer? the hot weather is stifling.

Breads never freaked me out, but hot cross buns OMG! The small mystery bits of alternating chewy with nuts WTF! *shivers* My stepmother always makes sure she places the plate of them at the opposite end of the table because if she puts them near me, I completely freak out. Well, not actually, but I continuously give them evil side glances and start fidgeting. The're just not right.

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Welcome to u KristaMeth.

I had 3 EEGs as part of my battery of tests i had recently to determine whether i was epileptic or not(the answer is yes) I wonder what it comes up with in relation to autism. Anyway it is a real pain when u are dragged to multiple shrinks and not told why isn't it.
I have read about this one boy that was diagnosed with AS and not informed till 6 months later. I am grateful for the fact that i was not kept in the dark when they finally came up with the diagnosis. It just made sense.

Welcome! Glad you finally made sense of everything!

it is so important to get sense of everything! goodness, once we have that, we are in perfect control!


Merle