Another newbie asking "do I have AS?"

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New here, and will be posting questions as they come up..

Last edited by hypermorphic on 02 Jan 2008, 7:04 am, edited 1 time in total.

You've come to the right place to find answers.

A member of Wrong Planet, rdos, has developed an online questionnaire to determine whether a person might have Asperger Syndrome or not. Here is a link to it:

http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

Try the quiz, have a look in the discussion forums, learn as much as you can. And welcome here, hypermorphic.

Thanks, this quiz is much more indepth and interesting questions than the others I've taken.

Welcome to WP!

Tim

Welcome hypermorphic,

It looks like you fit here well.

Nice to meet you, hypermorphic.

Welcome hypermorphic,

Your graph looks pretty similar to mine.

Thanks for the welcome, all Love your icon gbollard. I have a million newbie questions to ask, but I'll try to be patient and read through the forums and articles first

Welcome. I hope you find the answers you seek.

Welcome to WrongPlanet!

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

I used to be the one trying to find out if I have AS. I was self diagnosed and it was clear from all I read/learned of AS that this has been all my life. People here for once actually share my life story and habits but there was always doubts in me because of no official diagnosis.

But 2 days ago a professor was sent to diagnose me and prooved my self diagnose was right so you may allready know the truth in your own mind about yourself if you are all that you learned of AS.

Thanks for the link! I took the test too. My results:

Your Aspie score: 141 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 60 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Thanks again for the welcome, all!

It took me about 2 days on this site to change my profile from "don't know" to "Have AS - undiagnosed" The experience of knowing that there are other people out there like me has been.. indescribable, and for the first time since I was a child I'm proud of my quirks and abilities again. I still have doubts occasionally, and it hasn't been entirely easy to accept, but I've told a good number of my friends and they've been supportive so far. I've had so many health problems that some of my them think I'm a hypochondriac, or think "he's going off on a weird tangent again". I've since traced them all down to gluten and casein, which led me in turn to AS, but I think a professional diagnosis could help smooth things over, since ultimately my friends' acceptance is more important to me than anyone else's. I haven't been able to find anyone in my area that's familiar with adult AS or specializes in it, but that seems to be the norm from what I've gathered.

While my acceptance is changing me and resolving problems for me internally, there's still a big NT world out there to deal with that I haven't figured out what to do with. I don't know who I can or should tell, whether I should continue to try to pretend to be NT as best I can despite the stress it causes me. While I don't care as much about the impression I make on the general public, my work is full of gossips and office politics and games, and so far I'm losing. I keep my private life private, but it seems like the slightest thing I do divulge becomes Big News, or the next Big Joke. I leave several times a week thinking "god, people, get a life!". Is it typical Aspie to think that the socially-accepted obsession that people have with what's going on in each other's lives should be classified as an OCD?

Apparently I needed to vent a bit, forgive me if it's not appropriate for this forum Overall this site has done wonders for me, thanks all!

You don't have to appologize, venting is a healthy and natural process. Packing everything inside is not conductive to ones wellbeing and sanity.

After 30 years of this, I'm not sure how much sanity I have left '

Though I find that stimming along to Slipknot is great for the soul