How Many People Here Are actually Autistic or have Aspergers

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SAME HERE! Maybe I should stop posting, because the theory appears to be that every post we post brings us closer to being "normal". If that means like most of those I know, **NO THANKS**! OH WELL.

funny, when I see a person who's a heavy poster here it actually makes me think that they must be on the lower end of AS. if someone only pops in and makes a comment or two it makes me think that they actually have a life and are socially satisfied with interaction that they get elsewhere (IRL) and so don't feel the need to post on a forum.

so I don't get how spending your days on forums actually makes someone a functional, regular human being LOL

I have over 4,000 posts, does that mean I'm cured?

I actually have more than this, 2520 under likedcalico. But I reached 1000 a lot quicker with this one than my other one.

Well, it IS saturday. I took care of my email, studied some languages, made sure a refi was on it's way to the bank, planned out a way to lose a pound today, and set a goal of at least 10 pounds a month, planned a diet, researched bars to complete calories that I didn't get, and went to the store and got some bars that fit(I get plenty of nutrition, but am trying to keep vitamin K and fats down, and calories low). I also got ready for the day, decided on improvements to a program I am writing for work, and plan to clean up my room, and do the laundry. So I don't have MUCH to do, but I am not simply sitting at my computer responding to posts on the board. I figured it out, I am writing about 9-10 posts a day. That actually EXCEEDS the 6-7 I did on the other site. OH WELL.

BTW as far as lower end, what do you mean? I make more money than most people in the US(about 3-4 times the national average)! I have a skilled job that most consider me the BEST at! I am pretty smart, and most would agree. I can communicate better than most. I get along with most, even if they DON'T get along with me.(I tend to hide my REAL feelings.) I have been without work approximately 2 months in the past 28 years. I have NEVER gotten any public assistance, or lived on the street.

And don't get me wrong. I have ONE friend I feel is REALLY my friend, one here I suspect may be(I have a strict definition of what a friend is), and a few that I really don't know about. HECK, there is one person I once knew that seemed nice. He and I got along. He provided ME as a reference for his security clearance for JPL. When I asked HIM to reciprocate, he said NO! He told me we were separated for too long, so he didn't really know what I was like. But yet HE wanted ME to provide a reference to the FBI(Federal Bureau of Intelligence of the U.S.A.)! If HE lied about me, nothing would happen. If I lied about him, there is no telling what could have happened to me. After all, he is(or at least was) ACTUALLY working in a TOP SECRET area for the U.S. government. They did a COMPLETE backround check. NOT only the regular paper trail(credit reports, resume history, references), but ALSO (police reports, school transcripts, school records, associations, neighboors, friends, legal matters, etc....) Part of that was investigating ALL friends and classmates, which included ME!

I am not married, etc... My social skills are pretty poor. But HEY, that is a GIVEN with AS! SO, as AS goes, I think I have fairly mild AS.

Of course I have Asperger's!

official diagnose here

Probably classical/HFA or PDD-NOS, but AS is the official one. They almost diagnosed me with HFA until I took an IQ test and then the professional assumed it had to be AS rather than another PDD. Services for AS where I live are equivalent to services for classical, so it doesn't make a difference.

Someone recently suggested I might just be re-diagnosed back and forth between AS and HFA, depending on the professional I'd go to. I'm all for a diagnosis of just 'ASD' to replace AS, classical and PDD-NOS/atypical autism in DSM and ICD.

I think it would unite the spectrum too, giving people on and many people off the spectrum less reason to try to deny that for example AS and classical are not related. Though it would encourage functioning-labels maybe, unless better ways to describe the autism of someone would be found also.

the most difficult thing on this board is that most think we all know the abbreviations of syndromes...I have given up on asking what they are as most who post don't bother to explain...What is Nld by the way?????

And mister, you only been here a few days and you judge others. If I had to judge you on how you write, I owuld say you aren't autistic....

I was diagnosed by ateacher who worked with autistic children, and my apsie test gave me a score of 155 on 200 for asperger, I do appear pretty normal to most in daily life until they have to live with me....

Hypergraphia

then use autism dar and not A dar, Gay dar and not G dar (might refer to the G spot and there isn't an A spot) i am sich and tired of this turbo abbreviation language. What is this? Laziness to speak full words????

It is not scanning...it is more like an innate knowing or feeling that someone is Gay

It may sound ludicrous or paranoid, but I have heard that american computers have government spyware built in, so everything you do and say and write they already know about.... Thye may even see you thorugh your pc

I never heard you can outgrow Asperger, if so, it means you can cure it...

alliteration and parallelism.

"Autism dar" doesn't sound like anything and no one would understand what you are referring to.

"A Dar" is something anyone who knows the context (AS) gets right away.

Nope. I was yet another that had no idea what you were taking about.

It can't be TOO good, since you think anyone saying anything against you is homosexual, and you think EVERYONE has "experimented". Surprisingly, some people that SUPPOSEDLY aren't homosexual, use language that earlier would have pegged them as such. Then again, various foreigners have clouded MUCH of that. And the voice and mannerisms certainly aren't present in all homosexuals and some, that DO have them, claim to NOT be homosexual. So who is to say?



Many computers DON'T have cameras! Unless hooked up to the internet, most computers can NOT communicate with other devices. There is NO such thing as a bios, or generic self installing driver, so doing it to most computers is extremely difficult, and doing it to all computers is all but impossible. So it is a stupid MYTH!

HECK, they created a method to identify computers on the internet in the seventies! The idiot NIC manufacturers, because they were too stupid, and/or wanted to cut costs, decided to NOT use it properly. So it is all but WORTHLESS! In the 90s, intel came up with a plan to identify newer processors, but the market HATED it, so they abandoned it! In the later 90s, disk drive manufacturers, and M/S decided to do it but, AGAIN, the market HATED it, and they abandoned it.

Some STUPID “programmers” STILL think that the IP address is unique. It isn't! ALSO, if it were, MOST of the computer connections on the internet would be GONE!

FURTHER, SOME claim that GPS systems work by asking a satellite where they(the GPS units) are! The MYTH goes that the government can track you, and has a log of where you are. *****WRONG*****! That would be next to impossible anyway, with all the billions of devices that use the system. It would also be a drain on MILITARY resources, and nobody would allow it. ALSO, enemies could use it(especially NOW) to track US weaponry. So OBVIOUSLY it is a STUPID MYTH! They work by TRIANGULATION! The GPS unit asks the satellites where THEY(the satellites) are. THAT is why resolution varies, why they have assistive methods, need maps, take so long, need so many satellites, etc... EVERY GPS device is just receiving the SAME standard signal(of course, the origins and timings depend on where you are.) Whether you have 1 or 500 trillion devices, the resources required are the SAME! ALSO, a GPS guided missile would NOT need to wait for satellites, or inform anyone or anything where it is. IT would know, which is what it requires. The US could, if they want, track it by any special means they want.

That said, many corporations DO have spy software to limit, and monitor, employee access. Most sites also store email for a time. Email is made to not be secure. ALSO, they DO have lowjack in some cars, which the miltary CAN use, and they ARE trying to get GPS, with a transmitter put into phones, to track THEM! Of course, cell phones DO already have a kind of triangulation built into them. It is a GIVEN that the resolution of digital is EASILY within a mile. There are also cameras setup in stores, at atms, on busy corners, on busy streets/parkinglots, etc..... SO, if they REALLY want to track you, they can. That can be a drain though, and doing it capriciously is ILLEGAL! Still, the very fact that they are doing such things shows how much trouble they have now.

BTW as for outgrowing AS, you CAN, to a degree. MANY here have discussed it. With ME, for example, I got use to sarcasm, various sayings, etc.... Further, I don't have to worry about catching things so much, etc... So I wasn't "cured", but I DID kind of outgrow some aspects.