Self diagnosis Apology thread. Please read.

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Oh my god I could have been a talented clown

My old progress reports often said the same thing, but my teachers would add "doesn't relate well to peers." "Needs to work on building relationships with other kids." I need to find out if my old progress reports still exist. If so, maybe the next time I visit a shrink, I could bring them along to support my claims.

ALL of those replies talking about school reports...they were written on mine as well throughout early elementary school.

After that, they simply printed a report card (A, B, C, D, F/X).

Something was wrong all those years for all those people to repeat the same things over and over. I'd seen counselors at school and was sent to a psychiatrist in 4th grade with no result.

Oh so now I'm a human being and not a disgusting brat for self diagnosing?

That mild overload I got in martial arts class yesterday was actually an overload, and not just that I was 'looking for attention'? (even though I wasn't...I didn't say 'I'm having a sensory overload'. I just asked the girl I was training with if we could use a different area where the light wasn't shimmering off the lines in the floor and making me drunk.)

Thanks. Yeah. That was sarcasm.

I'm very impressed that are able to see where you were wrong, and admit it. That's really cool. You are a very mature 16yo, and I'm proud of you. You're not even my son, but still, I am just beaming with pride at your being able to do that.

You did bring up some good points, you just hadn't thought through all possiblities, or didn't have all the relevant information. I know I've sure changed my mind about a lot of things since I've been coming to this forum. I just didn't know some things about AS and had some wrong opinions based on wrong information. Like you, I do mean well, so I was able to change my mind, and continue to do so. I'm so glad Alex and whoever else does the work to keep this place going do what they do. It has made a big difference to me.

Glad to know you young Padawan!

Yep yep yep, been there done that, but it was ADHD. It took 40 something years to finally figure out what was "wrong" and get the right treatment. In my case there are pills that vastly improve my quality of life without infringing on my neuro-uniqueness. I try not to dwell on what would be different if I'd gotten the dx as a kid.

I never noticed the thread, but thank you for caring enough to apologize. Diagnosis status is not black and white. Someone did diagnose me as having Aspergers when I was little. Someone else said PDD-NOS. My parents refused to believe it and never had it put in my IEP or 504 because they did not want it to be true. They worked on the disgraphia issue, which was what gave me trouble in school, as if it was a stand-alone LD thing and only even looked at the possiblity that I might be on the spectrum again when I was in my teens. My last diagnosis was specific LD in the area of handwriting. Now I am grown up and about to leave home. Part of me desperately wishes that people had used words like Aspergers and autism around me all my life. I would not have spent almost all of my childhood afraid, trying to pretend to think like my neurotypical peers, thinking I was the only person in the world who thought the way I do and not even having a word for what I am. I would not have felt so alone. If I had had a community like WP back then, I might not have believed what the special education people told me about how my whole way of thinking was pathological, maybe subhuman. That leads me to the reason I am glad my parents never acted on that diagnosis. Their prejudice and fear may have saved me from even worse treatment at the hands of the people who worked for the school district. It might have made the expectations for me even lower than they were.

Heya..I'm sorry for my angry post earlier.

I just flew into a vicious rage on reading the apology...I don't know why. Just that having someone admit that their view was wrong made me feel like 10^3 times worse.

Anyways...Sorry for behaving like an animal.

Heh. It was one of the first threads I started to read after my introduction post in which I admitted to self-diagnosing.

I'm another one of the 30+ people with a string of comments on my report cards.

The favourite one of my parents (they would quote it at me any time they were annoyed with my behaviour) "WarWraith only does what WarWraith wants to do".

my third grade principal called me out of class to his office to solve his Rubik's Cube.

so i was appreciated, at least by one person.

Heh heh, that's awesome!

Hey, it's ok. I gave you my story and then tried to calm everyone down with my two-side approach. I'm sorry there were hurtful comments. I hope mine wasn't hurtful. I don't do that. I give people the facts and compare sides. I never do childish name calling. That's so NT...I'm just kidding.

People here can be blunt and others very sensitive and we get threads like the one you posted a lot.

There are some that can use AS as an excuse. It does happen. But most here that are self diagnosed invest a lot of time in researching. I constantly read about autism and even went out and read whole books while trying to come to the conclusion if I had it or not.

You probably thought that people think they have AS after relating to a few symptoms said in one article. A lot of people do that. I've even had doctors say that people shouldn't self diagnose online. That was about illnesses. So you see even non-autistic people can self diagnose. I think that some can just browse online and come to a conclusion whereas others may do more in depth research until they are sure.

Thanks for being so understanding guys

Regress reports topic

I flushed my old reports down the john in 1987, so I know no one stole mine!! !

I did all that others here wrote, and I dawdled and daydreamed as well. This is when the childhood shrink came into the picture and said I was out of touch with reality. Not so. I felt the reality so much I decided to leave it now and again to a safe place in my mind. this dept me from distintegrating into permanent distress.

I still go there. Only now I write about it in my stories.

You are forgiven.

DAYDREAMED

THAT'S the one thing I missed mentioning...thanks for reminding me! My third grade teacher mentioned this to my parents in her little note that she would send home.