You don't have asperger's ha ha

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I just got that from the psychiatrist yesterday... I have many Asperger traits, but he doesn't think it's full-blown AS (maybe he just wouldn't recognize it it were) but I have some deep-rooted problems (and I know it) that are CAUSING some of these symptoms.

I'm not sure I agree... the eye contact thing I can understand, the social withdraw, sure.... but please explain the never fitting in no matter what I do?

When going for a diagnoses, you should include your parents because they remember more about you when you were a kid and they can tell him or her how you acted but if they are dead or they are in denial or you are estranged from them, you are screwed. I'd get out a notebook and write everything down what I remember and write down what problems I have and keep a log of how often I have the symptoms.

I have no idea how I come across. The one expert I briefly met with was acting like I had all these traits, and thought it meant something that I was playing with my magazine (rolling it up and stuff). I was unconsciously doing that stuff because I was really nervous.

She said something like "I'll bet you were a hand flapper"...which I don't think I did. I mean not like in those videos you see. I think people thought I was normal, just didn't fit in (I don't think my mom gets how much I struggled to fit in even in grade school).

How on Earth can they deny hypothyroidism?!? I've got that, and at least for that there's a test. One them I'm a bit worried about-the medicine we need for that is actually different depending on the manufacturer. Generics aren't the same (even though for most stuff they are). Doctors and pharmacists mostly knew that until recently. Just a year or two ago I started getting "oh, it's exactly the same!". Well I tried the generic 10 years ago, and within 2 weeks I couldn't concentrate and was tired all the time again...

The tests are unreliable. I had symptoms years before I tested positive.

There is also a test for Lyme, which is unreliable. I never tested positive, yet had the symptoms, was diagnosed clinically and the treatment cured me.



You're absolutely right. Only the natural dessicated stuff works for me. I'm also aware the synthetics work better for some, and that for some people one synthetic is better than another.

I cannot emulate "normal" at all. I'm pretty good at emulating AS however, O wait....

My tendency will be to shrug, smile nervously, and say, "well, a lot of it is under the surface for some of us. Over time they're coming to realize there's nearly many different ways to be autistic as there are ways to not be -- go figure! "

You should take her very seriously. Is it not obvious that unlike NT's who share a common neurology, and are all individuated within their group, proper humans with their own little personalities, and inherently human in their uniqueness, people with AS who may or may not share a common neurological profile (we do not know the etiology of AS, whether the traits are common due to common brain structure, or merely cluster as a group due to convergent effects arising from various neurological 'anomalies') are completely unvaried within their group? Only NT's get to be real individuals with varied and unique personalities that defy 'auto-stereotyping', and yet all arise from a common brain structure/functionality.

Obviously the fact that NT's can all share the same basic neurological profile whilst still retaining infinite 'in-group' variability, indicates that those who are a group by virtue of not having that same basic neurological profile and maybe or maybe not sharing a common neurological profile within their group, would be uniform and (unlike real humans) without individuated personality or the uniqueness that makes humans special and human. If you were NT you'd no doubt, in your own individual way realise this, just like the rest of the NT's all seem to. Luckily we have them to let us know that we are less than individual and unique members of a homologous group because unlike them it is not certain we share a common neurological profile throughout our group.

I for one thank our NT overlords for their insight - without which, I might well be tempted to believe that I too was a unique individuated and therefore 'real' human. Does it not make us all warm and cozy to know that the world is safely in the hands of such masters of objective and logical reasoning...

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Funny post