swbluto wrote:
Yensid wrote:
swbluto wrote:
(Simplified) Neurotypical non-disorder
Must meet criteria A, B, C, and D:
I'm still trying to figure out what you are trying to do here. It seems that you can get the same results by using the AS checklist, and simply noting that you fail too meet the criteria. It is in the nature of diagnosis that if you fail to meet the criteria for any disorder, you are assumed to be NT.
True, but I have an imagination and my interpretations are particularly malleable. From the first post...
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I'm looking at the symptoms and if I interpret the criteria in a certain way and imagine my personal history in just the right way, it seems quite plausible that I might be mildly autistic.
So looking at the 'autism criteria' isn't particularly adequate for me. However, looking at the neurotypical criteria makes it far easier to see that I was actually neurotypical as a child. According to this website at
http://www.succeedsocially.com/relatedfactors, it appears that there are other factors that can make socialization difficult that are unrelated to autism, such as particular disorders. I suppose an expressive language disorder might be partially responsible for my not appearing to 'getting it' (Even when I think I do) when it comes to socialization and the hazy wall that seems to exist between me and the vast majority of others might be related to schizophrenia. Giftedness might have also compounded the problem.
I was the soccer champion in 6th grade and this paper by
http://www.onthespectrum.com/board/viewpoll.php?id=433 states "As a part of Other Characteristics, People with Asperger’s Syndrome tend to be innately clumsy, so they are terrible at sports.", so I really doubt I have aspergers.
There certainly are other things which can present in a similar fashion to AS, and are not. This is what current AS assessments seek to rule out. Concerning clumsiness, this was indeed observed by Hans Asperger in his subjects. Current DSM-IV criteria does not include a requirement for coordination issues, however NVL, which is nearly identical to AS, does. I have these coordination issues, and they are generally not the type of clumsiness which would inhibit one from playing soccer.
It's the type of clumsiness which makes it difficult for one to navigate crowds, position oneself properly in a social situation, tie an apron behind one's back, learn to ride a bicycle, and do much of anything fancy on rollerskates, rollerblades, or ice skates.
In my case, despite having a fairly good imagination, I cannot tweak my interpretations such that it's fathomable that I'm NT because I simply just was that different from NT children that it was assumed I was on the spectrum before AS existed in modern literature.
