Hey, I'm Theo

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Hi, I think I have Asperger's.

My systemizing quotient is about 89. At first I got a 93, but I thought that was ridiculous so I took it again and got an 85.
My empathy quotient is 23/80. I was particularly surprised with the result of this test because I've always thought I was a very empathetic person.
My autism spectrum quotient is 35/50. In the range of those who have Asperger's.
My friendship quotient is 47.
I took the Aspie Quiz, the one developed by rdos, and I mostly fell into the realm of neurodivergence. My average scores were 141/200 for neurodivergent traits and 89/200 for neurotypical traits.
My RAADS-R score was a whopping 148.

My executive functioning skills are remarkably poor, especially as of late. I was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and I understand that it has a high degree of comorbidity with Asperger's.

In 12th grade, I tried telling my school social worker that I believed I had Asperger's (I remember telling her that many people, especially my dad, used to call me "a little professor" when I was younger), but she told me that I didn't need to label myself. (I tried explaining to her that I needed to make sense of myself, my social shortcomings, but she just chalked it up to me being a [neuro]typical teenager with identity crisis issues.) She brought in the school psychologist, and she too told me that I wasn't. She even compared me to another boy in the school who had been diagnosed, and said I was nothing like him. (He was mostly mute or something.) I dropped it - it seemed futile to pursue it any longer with them after that, and I quietly accepted that I wouldn't get through to them. I was, and still am, pretty used to not being listened to. I actually believed them for a while, but now I'm starting to trust what I had originally thought.

I'm happy to be joining this site because I'd like to be around people... like me (for lack of a better term ).

I think you are one really strong person and I think wrongplanet will be an awesome place for you.

Welcome!

Edit: by the by, been there and done that with having a school professional tell me that I cold not have AS. A similar scenario happened in university to me.

Thanks!

And this is completely unrelated, but the words comorbidity and comorbid have always irked me. They sound weird. It makes me think morbid -> death.

Me too. I prefer co-occurring.

'comorbid' always sounded a bit....off to me too. co-occurring is better, yes.

welcome to the club, Theo!! hope you enjoy your stay in our humble e-abode.

RAADS-R score of 148...i guess that makes you a pretty RAAD guy. (sorry Magnus Rex i just had to!!)

Hey Theo welcome.