Self diagnosed people here don't have aspergers

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This is pointless, B. You're welcome to your beliefs, but try to remember they are opinions and not facts. Not everyone thinks the way you do.


M.

There's a huge psychology department at my college. They're definitely interested in it.

Rigidity tends to be an AS trait, but it's not like NTs can never display it.

Long time lurker, first time poster here.

I appreciate both sides of this discussion. I can only say for myself, a 54 year-old mostly NT woman with a family tree laden with undiagnosed AS and a long history of being attracted to and in relationships with men with strong AS traits, that this community has given me more of a profound sense of self and life understanding than seven years of therapy ever did.

I've hesitated posting until now because I didn't want to assume membership in a group in which I hadn't "earned" my place. Thank you all for your posts on this thread.

FinallyMakingSense, my understanding is that WP does not exclude people on the basis of their neuro-status. If you find that WP meets some need or provides some value top you, and are willing to abide by the sensible rules of WP, then you are welcome to participate on the same terms as everyone else.


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You are more than welcome, and sorry about spelling your name wrong before, I have corrected the typo....

So it seems. Thank you.

Well, everyone's entitled to their opinion, and even though I'm self-diagnosed, I can understand the skepticism.

But if it obsesses like an Aspie, stims like an Aspie, and analyzes, socializes, and thinks like an Aspie, I don't know what else I'm supposed to think.

It seems like it is all a matter of degrees and how well one fits in a particular community.

For me, I've noticed through the years in other online communities that my posts often stand out from the others. It is noticeable enough to have been commented on by others many times.

On WP, I've found that many posters and even whole threads seem to capture my style of posting, with longer, more detailed, more precise, and more focused discussion. I really had no idea until I found this place that this style of writing can be associated with AS.

Pandd, you've got to love a forum where the members actually care about spelling.

Hrmph, iirc the DSM (or that psychology book they use in North America) is nothing short of a list of criterias concerning the various traits of autism. They roughly make a checklist of how much criterias you qualify for and depending on the amount, you can pretty much be anything from normal to Asperger, to full-blown autism. (That is roughly how it works =/ , i am unsure if the classifications are as clearly cut as i've done though)

All four of the following sets:
{ Has AS, diagnosed}
{ Does not have AS, diagnosed}
{ Has AS, undiagnosed}
{ Does not have AS, undiagnosed}

Are non-empty, you may now go on with your life.

Messr Moony would like to declare that the OP has the least logical ideas of anyone he has ever seen.