When autism fades, do you really lose your unique talents?

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What are these unique talents you're talking about? The narrow interest and your ability to recite factual data like a textbook?

You probably just have your mind taken up with social things, so you have less time to spend thinking about schooling. If you can't/don't do social things, you tend to focus on other things, no matter what disorder you have or not.

I've stayed the same, well, my problems became worst later on in life due to everyone growing up "socially" around me, in addition to the chaos of high school (multiple subjects in multiple classrooms, hundreds of different people, a tight time schedule, etcetera and etcetera). I'm good again now that I'm away from that.

It could be the drugs. But also I found that I was more skilled when young than now. Growing up have decreased both gifts and stims. Actually when I need to recover my mental ability for work I can simply fall back in old habit. They came together, I can't socialize and think properly. I can't hiperfocus without rocking. My office-mate joke on that they think is a sort of "meditative state", they know that I must ACT autistic to be productive and accept it.

(Nightsun: I like your sig.)

Egads, this may be the most offensive post I've read in some time. A person does not "outgrow" autism. The entire spectrum is neurological so a person will be born with it and carry it until the very end. Granted, many of us learn skills and strategies to adapt to the larger society and be as functional as possible. Thought of "outgrowing" AS is the danger of self-diagnosis. Anyone can go through the DSM-IV or read a magazine article and identify with individual traits of any condition.

Yes, I'll be less wild and more sane... and unhappy because I ain't unique!

Congratulations --- you're officially labelled...

But of course, everyone is officially diagnosed because the new trend is the AS diagnosis for everyone.

If everyone's diagnosed, who's NT?

Exactly. That's what I've been thinking lately. Soon NTs will be "impaired" and be in the DSM-VII. Then the trend will be to be identified NT.

If everyone's diagnosed, who's NT?

The trend would be cool to start with.

Well, I don't know if it's useful to be doubtful of everybody's status. But my previous comment was unfairly snarky/harsh.

It was just the jumping to the conclusion that an disagreement means it must be some self-dx'ed people messing things up. At the OP's age, I got better at some social interaction (but not nearly that much), and some years later that lessened somewhat, as it was very stressful and my energies were dropping as I got older. So, I think things can fluctuate, just in the OP's case it's pretty dramatic.

[quote="TuDoDude"]But of course, everyone is officially diagnosed because the new trend is the AS diagnosis for everyone.

I wouldn't know, as my autism hasn't faded, and if I have unique skills, I haven't discovered them yet.

Actually, I didn't understand the "white women" comment; I didn't see it in context of the original statement. Also, I don't know what OP means.

Well, I don't know if it's useful to be doubtful of everybody's status. But my previous comment was unfairly snarky/harsh.

It was just the jumping to the conclusion that an disagreement means it must be some self-dx'ed people messing things up. At the OP's age, I got better at some social interaction (but not nearly that much), and some years later that lessened somewhat, as it was very stressful and my energies were dropping as I got older. So, I think things can fluctuate, just in the OP's case it's pretty dramatic.

TuDoDude wrote:

But of course, everyone is officially diagnosed because the new trend is the AS diagnosis for everyone.

As a 36 year old i can say you never grow out of it. It just cycles like most things. I can go for months high functioning then something will happen to bring me crashing back down.