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Aavikkorotta
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02 May 2018, 6:02 pm

Joe90 wrote:
So I don't understand how I qualified for a diagnosis of AS. :?

Curious. Do you think it fits you as an adult though?

ravXVl wrote:
Your situation sounds very similar to mine. Then again, I was diagnosed at 17 and at that point, I had never met someone in person who had struggled more socially than me. Overall, I had always been a very social kid, I just couldn't make/maintain friends well for some reason. I am definitely an atypical aspie. Maybe PDD-NOS would have been a more accurate diagnosis, I don't know.

An issue I've noticed is that introversion is often mistaken as being an aspie trait.

I'm an extrovert who seems to be an ambivert and is sometimes mistaken as an introvert. I, too, tried to be social as a kid and struggled to make/maintain friends. (Though acquiring acquaintances has always been easy.)


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MalchikBrodyaga
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04 May 2018, 1:31 am

I was diagnosed back in 1995, back then my Asperger was considered mild, although right now not any more, probably because a lot more people got diagnosed more recently, or because the person that said it was mild was Brina Siegel and she is the one who likes to un-diagnose people.

In any case, I doubted my diagnosis back then, but I did so probably because when I read descriptions of Asperger in books I read them too literally and was thinking "no way I am not the kind of robot they describing". But then when I actually started reading real life accounts by Donna Williams and Temple Grandin, as well as talking to real aspies on a mailing list, I realized that none of them look like what I pictured from those books either, and that was when I realized that yes I have it.

And later on I started having the opposite doubt: why was I told I was mild if everyone else who has Asperger looks a lot milder than me.