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Fraya
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25 Apr 2007, 6:11 pm

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I qualify in all of them.


Perhaps but you dont have all the stereotypical symptoms do you?

The criterion list is so vague almost any learning disorder will qualify you.



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25 Apr 2007, 6:18 pm

Fraya wrote:
Sometimes I wonder if the textbook AS cases arent somewhat psychosomatic.

Considering there are thousands of possible combinations of symptoms within the autistic range what are the odds that a single person would have the exact ones in the DSM nothing more nothing less?


I don't know if psychosomatic is the right word for it, I'd call it self-deception. People trying to fit themselves into a box a little too hard. A box that was made in such a way that nobody could ever entirely fit it.


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25 Apr 2007, 6:19 pm

Fraya wrote:
manalitwist wrote:
I qualify in all of them.


Perhaps but you dont have all the stereotypical symptoms do you?

The criterion list is so vague almost any learning disorder will qualify you.


Which symptoms do you mean? I think i probably have most of them to be honest. Still i do not play at being AS but rather have been very much AS since i was a baby. I was never treated as if i had a disorder and was cut no quarter. I have never been diagnosed and therefore i have not been acting out the symptoms.


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25 Apr 2007, 6:37 pm

Fraya wrote:
Sometimes I wonder if the textbook AS cases arent somewhat psychosomatic.

Considering there are thousands of possible combinations of symptoms within the autistic range what are the odds that a single person would have the exact ones in the DSM nothing more nothing less?


I agree that this IV4 test criteria is rather vague and i would expect it to be no more than an prelimenary tst befor the proper diagnosing begins.


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25 Apr 2007, 8:04 pm

I'm glad to know you can still be an Aspie and not have all those things-because I was really confused when I read some of that and it didn't match me (when so much other stuff does).