I'm a socially awkward nerd: Do I have aspergers?

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Give up schizophrenia, pal.

I dont know what exactly can curb the obsessive/ unrelenting nature of this drive. I get the sense if you read heavy on this subject, you get that urge to post your new idea somewhere.

The intent is to discover, and your MO is doing it this way. It appears to bother the board, so I dont' know if you can just take your mind of this completely and indulge into a hobby, say math, and let your psychologist work this out.

Once off the track, the new obsession takes control, and you wonder how in the world this last obsession was such a 911.

It's a nutty unrelenting loop.

Last edited by Mdyar on 18 Oct 2011, 5:51 pm, edited 2 times in total.

BS... This has NOTHING to do with me being woman or reading too much into anything. It has to do with your thoughtless actions/posts. I have been in high tech for more than 20 years and worked side-by-side with thousands of socially ret*d/awkward nerds. Not a ONE of them has ever spoken about ASD to me. Not one. Again you generalize and make light of the disorder part of this disorder. and I am tired of your excuses... ASD is a real issue for a lot of people. Try to respect that part of it while you are making "light" of the stereotypes. In other words... Stop it already!

Really, really smart people are both socially awkward and weird too. It isn't the same thing. You post nearly 9 posts a day to this board and it is the same dribble. The same questions about your observations about stuff that nobody can help you with... This stuff is actually documented all over the place if you took some time to read. Go off and read or better yet.... Accept that you are just you and figure out an obsession that you can use to give back to society instead of ruffle feathers. It is possible for even socially awkward people to contribute to society...

In 2004, I wanted to change my name to "Integral", but I did not, because I did not want to do the paperwork and associated rigmaroles of name-changing. In my vision, I was going to sign all documents with the integral sign.

For books about autism, I would avoid any written by an NT. Books written by NTs about autism provide NT interpretations of autism that may or may not have anything to do with how autism is experienced by an autistic person.

Many nerds are HFA's that would never, ever, Trevor, receive a diagnosis of AS......

They are not affected enough by autism

Maybe when they are older, burnt out, brain infected encephalitics.... and functioning levels drop, will they receive a diagnosis, maybe

If they suffered as children.... they are have still been auties the whole time by my reckoning

But I guess driving confused nerds off this site, with a slap in the face, has its merits

It seems to be a common activity with some here

oops....TOM.... I cant have it!! !

I really feel like further confuzzling you.

Because there are these four subscores in my report (WISC) out of which one should be that working memory score. I can't tell which one exactly because the report isn't in English.

Anyway, I'll not tell you it's possible (perhaps kind of unusual) to have un-medicated "considerable" (=that's just what the diagnosticians called it) ADHD and manage to score in the 141-145 range on working memory index.

You think an ordinary nerd with AS has a good chance of making it past HR during the hiring process? You're funny.

(Note, you're an exception because you're obviously not an ordinary nerd, you're an extraordinary one. But just because you have technological and verbal prowess doesn't mean you're not wrong sometimes, like when you guess my intentions and you argue with me)

No you're just an incredibly annoying troll who continually spews sh*t on the forums to annoy others and seems to have not much else to do

Lol, confuzzle me any time you like.

But... I'm still confused, what???

I'm assuming your last paragraph means exactly the opposite of it what it says because there's some kind of sarcastic tone that I can't hear through the screen. I'm guessing you're one of the "exceptions" you mention?

Did you take the wechsler memory test? They also have a working memory index that's measured differently from the IQ test. I'm guessing the "working memory" index of the WAIS might be flawed for a particular type of ADHD person with visuospatial abilities, as I noticed I did fairly well precisely by arranging the numbers in a 3x3 mental grid in my mind (And on a number line), which I'm guessing is a particular advantage that only a few people have who might not actually have "great" working memory in other areas of life. Especially working memory associated with "meaning" (Which is what actually seems to characterize the attention deficit part of ADHD.).

Plenty do.

There's hope yet that I can work for intel!

he may be paid to do what he does.....

Btw, when we're talking about nerds and AS, we're talking about 1% of the nerd population. Even if they have an admission rate that's optimistically half that of NT nerds, we're talking about an AS subpopulation that's less than .5% of the workforce. You're talking about finding a unicorn and kxfisher is assuming she'll find a unicorn brave/stupid enough to show itself and risk getting shot. (I.e., getting sacked.)

Oh yeah, I borrowed Temple Grandin's book "Emergence Labeled Autism". I'm currently upto her fifth year and while my speech development seems somewhat similar to hers, I wasn't anywhere near as bratty as she was (Flinging poop everywhere, what the hell?). But, she doesn't actually have "aspergers", does she? She's just a classical case of autism which is noticeably worse than aspergers.

Why do I get the feeling I'm the only one here who understands that swbluto isn't being serious? I find these threads to be more hilarious than anything else.

And finding another special interest definitely helps. I hardly care about AS at all anymore.

hes not the only one