overdiagnosed??

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IMO AS is underdiagnosed because it as only existed as a diagnosis since the early 90s (so probably the vast majority of aspies over the age of 30 are either not diagnosed or misdiagnosed) and because it is not as recognized in the mental health and education community as it should be. An aspie kid with sensory issues casing violent meltdowns might get labeled with ADHD or Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, for example.

Pet hate: Threads where the OP starts out with all the potential of a good long banter about the nature of something or other, but turn out to be trollcrap by the end of the post. Waste of a good argument.

how exactly do they know who is a woman unless their username or they say so?
also,who said it's only just aspies on wrong planet?
there's users from all over the spectrum,users with ADHD as their main condition,and also NTs who have a connection to ASD in some way,the home page [wrongplanet.net] shows who the forum is designed for/used by.

Am think some of what the user said was right,ASDs of any sort [including classic and pddnos] can get messy by doctors being too quick to diagnose,some doctors do not do enough assessment or check for developmental history.
though AS is not completely different from autism,am have lived in res. homes with diagnosed aspies who were no different to auties,none of them were nerds,it will depend on how far along the person is on the spectrum.

Shhh... Quiet. Sid can hear you. :O)

Pet peeve roundly seconded.

OK. Gyyxx banned.

Ooooooookay.......

Anyway when I was diagnosed I was 3 years old, mainly because it was that age that I began to talk. Many of the tests done seemed unnecessary, I was really scared but I guess during the time (1985) not as much was known about autism and AS like it is now, and many tests had to be done to get a reliable conclusion. I would still like to get a hold of my medical records to see what specifically they where testing for.

Sorry Cockney Rebel

I think that although Asperger's has a male to female ratio of 2 or 3 to 1, it is possible that female Aspies have higher representation among ACTIVE members of Wrong Planet than this ratio because females often enjoy talking about their experiences and emotions more than males do. Of course female Aspies do not communicate these things as much as female NTS, but they probably do communicate them more than Male Aspies do.

Ah, so he has "uninformed information"! That's a weird concept!

Correct. And you have to factor in that some of them simply have family members on the spectrum. There's no rule that says every member of Wrong Planet has to be on the autistic spectrum.

Yeah when you type early in the morning when you just wake up can I then pick out your mistakes too?

Well, that is what I said.

Just considering official statistics, everyone active could be on the spectrum and female.

Which is, of course, not the case.

I didn't consider the behavioural cultural differences that made women said to be more chatty! That quite good further proof to that there probably are more women here than the official idea of 4:1!

I was labeled with autism in the 80's. That was because AS wasn't even recognized in the USA till the early 90's.
I wonder why they didn't use the PDD criteria on me? My speech delay perhaps.