Self diagnosed people here don't have aspergers

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I find your posts hard to read TBH^

There would have to be more criteria than the tendency to invite reply. If someone makes a topic celebrating Jenny McCarthy, they will get a lot of replies. However, very very few people here would have a positive opinion of them.

I wasn't being unkind. You asked so I answered.

I guess I'm a cat then?


I get what the OP was saying about the typical net-aspie stigma, I encountered it myself when I mentioned my suspicion that I fit the criteria on another board.

"Oh yeah right, you just want people to think you're unique and special and like rainman, whatever."

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Sure, that's why I state with no trace of doubt that I am on the autism spectrum... that makes perfect sense.

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I just got accused of not having it.

This goes on and on and I do not see why it matters who is self diagnosed. They have most likely done entirely more research on themselves than the doctor is ever going to do.

Even if they do not have Aspergers per the perfect criteria they have asperger tendencies. It is a spectrum and it is not like they trying to get anything or take anything from anyone else. They are just trying to make sense of their world.

Not everything in medicine is so clear

I have patients that walk just like they have Parkinson's (this is a very debilitating sort of gait and is actually very dangerous) but for some reason the tests are not perfectly conclusive so they diagnosis them with parkinsonism or a parkinsonian gait but not Parkinson's. They still regress in the same manor.

I have patients that appear to have allergies and when they are tested the tests are not within the perfect range. They still have all of the symptoms they still are given allergy medication and it relieves their symptoms but their diagnosis is often allergic type rhinitis.

Doctor's do not have all the right answers they just have the education and often the technology to make a really good guess but it is not always right.

A personal example I have of this is my Grandfather went into the hospital for a quintuple bypass surgery. Before surgery he was a normal independantly functioning person very intelligent. After the surgery he was the same person. Walking around Slowly and painfully and with a little assist but further than expected just after major surgery, making the same highly intelligent jokes I spent extensive time with him over two days and fully assessed his abilities my self I am an OT but not his OT. One of the days I was there he was working with a therapist in his room and was eating at the time. He suddenly turned blue choked (he appeared blue before he made the choking sound) and fell hard back onto his bed thrashing at first but then still. They had to revive him. He was never the same after that. They tested him for everything. Anoxia, stroke, seizure, blood clot. aneurysm etc. Their official diagnosis nothing happened but he never walked again, he was now very simple intelligence wise and bordered on delusional. He now thought I was my mother and did not know who my mother was. He never lived independently again even with extensive therapy, but yet per his chart, his diagnosis from his doctor, nothing happened.

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it's always best to at least get a second opinion from a licensed professional.
I don't even get why some people are upset once they find out that they don't have Asperger's. I have bona fide Asperger's and it sucks. If there was a cure for Asperger's, I would not only take it, but I'd be first in line for it.[/quote]
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dear sir-
there are lots of folk in this forum who are trying to weed-out folk who are insufficiently aspie, why can't we all just get along? there is a broad continuum on the x/y axis [the extent of my limited maths] of the AS part of the autism spectrum, both in location and depth of symptoms, so there is room enough for lots of folk to be viewed at a minimum, as having AS charicteristics, it doesn't take a shingle to know if one has a preponderance of the traits or not. a fella with obvious asperger's symptoms would normally do a very thorough study of the syndrome and come to a conclusion within an eyeblink of what a shrink would. being that not everybody can afford high-end health insurance which covers mental health [mine only "pretends" to cover it] should one begrudge such a fella who self-diagnoses him/herself? is a person with a toothache merely malingering 'cause s/he didn't pay a dentist for an "official" diagnosis? [lots of us are poor]

being that the latest shrink-wrapped DSM reportedly has placed AS under the heading of HFA, it sort-of seems to me that the AS label has become somewhat obsolescent in any case, so why shouldn't anybody who feels the need, be able to self-apply the AS label to him/herself, what is the harm? one could always view such folk as having a weight of AS traits [as opposed to the whole shebang] and then both sides could be happy [sort-of]. IOW, it is just a GD'ed word!

"discretion is the better part of valour."