Psychologist's dont believe im an aspie

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I'm a bit confused as to how your family and friends are diagnosing you, particularly when only a few months back you said your parents were not at all convinced.

What makes YOU think that you are an aspie? Three different doctor all saying no, sounds pretty conclusive to me. Perhaps you do have some issues, but your independence and life situation means that a diagnosis is unjustified. Really what do you expect from the diagnosis, what are your day to day problems and how can the diagnosis help?

I'm very confused by your posting history, your postings are very contradictory,

Jason.

I'm probably the epitome of [overly] formal at the psychos/psychics.

I still display the symptoms though.

I have met many aspies. Maybe it depends on where a person lives? I would assume that any place with a denser population will have a higher ratio of autism/Aspergers. The very first person I met happens to be my adoptive dad. He has many of the classic symptoms but is undiagnosed. A DX at 84 isn't likely to help him much anyway. I also worked in an office with an older woman who would probably be DX'd with Aspergers & also her son(former boss). He was also on the spectrum. He has a couple of boys who were DX'd. It can happen.

And not everyone who has struggled to get a DX is able to. While both my daughters have been DX'd with Aspergers, I cannot get a shrink to listen to me. They tell me I have bi-polar disorder. People with BP have friends, I am a complete loner, much happier doing stuff by myself than with other people. Plus a multitude of other symptoms. It's very frustrating to know there is something going on, but not getting the respect from professionals that's so upsetting. ALso, the reason I want a DX is like what others have said here. People never cut me any slack & have too high of expectations that I cannot reach. This is not a new thing, but something that has plagued me since I was a young girl.

I'm afraid I don't value any form of psychological assessment that simply seeks to put you in a labelled box, or rejects you as unsuitable for it.

A lot of "scientific wisdom" is based on experiments on very small groups, dating back many years now. Which is fine if you know that, but scary when it's rolled out as Absolute Truth like a new religion.

Whilst I wouldn't dispute that there are some patterns to human behaviour that can be regocnised and categorised relatively easily, there are millions of other permutations possible around the edges that really require individual analysis. Instead, current thinking seems to be all about cramming you into the nearesr available box, whether you really fit into it or not. They're imposing rules and boundaries in an area that, by definition, doesn't really have any. Perhaps that's the point: to get a handle on it all? But it seems to leave an awful lot of people misplaced, abandoned or confused.

I'm just noting how amusing it is that you say there's seemingly a high density of Aspies in a place that is in the NT (Northern Territory, for you non-Australiens).

If the current estimates of something like 1 in 200 people being on the spectrum are correct, in all probability we have all met quite a few. I only have three real friends and of them, one is almost definitely an Aspie and another shows a lot of Aspie characteristics. Is that an unusually high proportion? I don't think so. I tend to pick friends who have similar interests to me and think in similar ways.