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That's an incredibly inteststing post and I'd like to see you post more often during the day to day stuff.

Thanks. I'm pretty private but the bigger problem is I have a lot of days where I have massive trouble reading and writing. It can takes hours and hours even for something pretty short. I've lurked here a long while though and hope to get into things a bit more, though.

I think we need the 'undiagnosing' here really bad.

Sure, right after they re-name it Gary's Syndrome.

I was diagnosed by a professional in 1996, at the age of 16.

Apple_in_my_Eye you have much insight.

Self diagnosed 3 weeks ago and not sure how it would impact my life. Today initially dx'd 299.80 after an hour of talking to a psychologist. Given ASDS questionnaire to take home and finish filling out. The Psychologist will score, review, evaluate and then get back to me with the results. Almost positive I have some degree of autism, just looking forward to my dx day and the freedom that will come from the knowledge of who i am.

I self diagnosed myself years ago before I saw an aspergers specialist last week and was finally diagnosed with it. I honestly never needed a doctor to know if I had it; I just was tested so my parents would finally understand about my condition.

I was diagnosed as autistic when I was very young and was in special ed for 6 years before being mainstreamed. I like what Nena Aragón says about this in her YT video. An "official" Asperger's diagnosis is meaningless.

LG

Sig says where I currently am. My suspicion is an ASD. I have not quite self-dxed myself with an ASD.

Depends on where one lives. In Canada, there are some services available for those who are limited by disabilities that would otherwise be unclassified and thus impermissible without the diagnosis.

Well, those who tend to form intimate relationships who have AS, are usually of the highest-functioning make (and are often undiagnosed and oblivious to any disorder), i.e., they tend to appear well off in a superficial way (they'll work, possibly marry, etcetera). Whether these people deserve a diagnosis or not depends on how affected they truly are.

When you're doing things that people without a label can do, you tend to cross the barrier which creates "disorder" and "normality".

Actually Daniel I think I have to disagree here. I think that people who bend the rules, norms, guidelines, etc. perfer to stay far away from the well beaten path and seldom end up being accounted for in 'official' reports or studies. Personally I think this is good thing otherwise 'normal' would get skewed more towards the 'unusual' and then who knows what would happen.

There's a big problem with labelling those who're effectively "normal" with a label that is by definition a disorder or syndrome (with prevalence being of the statistical outlier make), one then will wonder what's the point of having a label [that explains severe symptoms] for.

It'll defeat the purpose, and one may just as well label everyone with a disorder, as life isn't easy for "normal" people in many cases. "Normal" people have problems with work (finding work; getting fired), socialising (dating, breaking up; marrying, divorced) and school (failing); all of this is normal for people.

When the common adult individual with AS can't do any of these things above (those that do, usually have help and allowances; there's not much help and allowances for social interaction, though), one sees why "disorders" are made in the first place.

There is a wide gap between being married and being effectively normal though.

I tend to agree with that, though don't get the impression that Siegal considers anything beyond the fact of being married.

When I first heard of married ASD folk I was baffled; I can't imagine that. But my impression is that those marriages/relationships tend to function internally (and come about) in unusual ways. I.e. a person who would be homeless on their own, but with a spouse to set their clothes out in the morning, cook, and deal with the outside-world social stuff, might manage a great high-paying job. Or someone having another person's presence & routines providing natural some prompts they need to get day-to-day stuff done. And etc. If someone just considers that a person has a good job or is married they might be missing the real picture.