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03 May 2011, 10:48 am

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It was obvious from a young age that i was "different", brilliant, odd, bizzare, odd, but it was only a few months ago that I was told about autism and that I had it, why so late for me? Because I - perhaps like the teen in question - was never really socially challenged as a child, I staying in my own little world, as I entered secondary school/middle school at 13 I was suddenly hit dead on with a bunch of new expectations and rules, a whole new world I hadn't prepared for, a world filled with endless socialising :( So I cracked about two years ago and I'm still recovering.

I didn't just develop autism when I became a teen, I had to cope with new stuff.



Same here- tiny village and tiny primary school meant little socialising outside of people I already knew.
Going to massive secondary school, and suddenly problems start appearing.
I've just recently been diagnosed AS, but when I look back, it's really obvious as far back as about 10, and before that there's moments, but not that much- to me, my AS started when I hit puberty- something to do with all those hormones whizzing round?
Coping with "new stuff" meant that where before my difficulties hadn't really been noticeable, then they started to be.

Now, I'm "moderate" AS, as I have severe difficulties with some things, and mild with others. What makes me angry/frustrated is that noone noticed before, and so now in my twenties I'm having to deal with things that should have been dealt with 15 years ago when my difficulties started becoming more obvious.



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26 May 2014, 12:33 pm

I found this post through google because I am 16 and I've been having AS symptoms all my life, but now it is getting worse (especially stimming). I have OCD and generalized anxiety disorder, but I think I might also have asperger's. I took that empathizing-sympathizing test thing (see signature below) and it said I have an extreme male brain (I'm female and appearentely this is extremely uncommon for females not on the spectrum). My therapist says she doesn't think I'm on the specturm but I do. I plan every minute of my life and I hate socializing so much. I just want to be alone all day everyday listening to indie music and doing hard sudoku puzzles (my currents obsessions). Lately, some people in my class have told me that they think I might be on the AS. I really want to trust my therapist saying that I don't have it but I really think I do! I am always stimming...when I'm anxious, bored, excited...doesn't matter. A few examples would be rocking front to back when anxious, tapping on desk violently to music in my head when bored, and jumping and running when I am happy or excited. I don't make a concious effort to do any of these. When I run around jumping people give me weird looks and that's how I know that I am doing it. Can anoyone else relate?


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26 May 2014, 1:14 pm

No, autism can not develop in the teenage years.

*If one has autism, they'll have it all their life and symptoms can look more pronounced when they go through a period of stress but to the original question, no it can't be developed later in life.



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26 May 2014, 1:26 pm

It's generally called Schizoid PD. If it's with delusions and/or hallucinations, it's then called Schizophrenia.



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28 May 2014, 12:56 pm

walkthemoon wrote:
I found this post through google because I am 16 and I've been having AS symptoms all my life, but now it is getting worse (especially stimming). I have OCD and generalized anxiety disorder, but I think I might also have asperger's. I took that empathizing-sympathizing test thing (see signature below) and it said I have an extreme male brain (I'm female and appearentely this is extremely uncommon for females not on the spectrum). My therapist says she doesn't think I'm on the specturm but I do. I plan every minute of my life and I hate socializing so much. I just want to be alone all day everyday listening to indie music and doing hard sudoku puzzles (my currents obsessions). Lately, some people in my class have told me that they think I might be on the AS. I really want to trust my therapist saying that I don't have it but I really think I do! I am always stimming...when I'm anxious, bored, excited...doesn't matter. A few examples would be rocking front to back when anxious, tapping on desk violently to music in my head when bored, and jumping and running when I am happy or excited. I don't make a concious effort to do any of these. When I run around jumping people give me weird looks and that's how I know that I am doing it. Can anoyone else relate?


I hate the extreme male brain theory. I could write a very long post explaining all the flaws in it but I am so tired of repeating it everywhere. I couldn't stay quiet though as you are basing yourself in this theory.
If you want to know more about it, there are plenty of criticism in the internet, in books, there are theory discussions here in wp and there are even brain scanning researchs that debunk it.

I would like to know more details about you. Not the extreme male brain quotients you took, but your traits?



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28 May 2014, 1:24 pm

I think it is possible, for different reasons. For example, sometimes it is caused by other conditions, which causes certain "circuits" in the brain to open or shut off (and when some circuits shut down others - sometimes or often, I don't know - open up).

Example: article here where they mention tuberous sclerosis and "risk" for autism: http://vectorblog.org/2011/12/a-view-of ... te-matter/ , and another interesting article here: http://neurosciencenews.com/brain-scans ... aging-dti/


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28 May 2014, 1:38 pm

Conservatively, I would say that normal development + lack of autistic traits before age 3 => no autism, but broadening that estimate, I could move to age 5, but normal development + lack of autistic traits past age 5 => no autism, in my opinion.


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