This is getting annoying, really annoying.

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It is a fair assertion that those lucky enough to be helped early on should not take this for granted, as to understand your differences and embrace your abilities is life altering. It should never be overlooked - the time others have wasted in their lives searching for answers, camoflauging deficits and working themselves into the ground to prove their worth, only to find their explanations and haven't the money or inclination to subject themselves to the scrutiny of 'professionals.' Encouragement is needed in this case, if you feel diagnosis is of major benefit in adulthood.

I've been seeing a psychologist for months, and I know I have Asperger's Syndrome.
I have eight hour testing on tuesday, I'm pretty anxious.

I suppose I'm one of the "misdiagnosed" since I don't fit the stereotypes.

I find it very stressful when people go off on tangents about Aspergers being a personality trait rather than an impairment, because I know there are people out there (e.g. my relatives) who would use that against me in an instant. They already think that actually helping me would spoil me, and I'm sure there not the only ones who think that if a bunch of us were kicked off welfare, we'd all get off our asses and get jobs. So when I find traces of such attitudes here I tend to get knots in my stomach because for me the threat is very real. And I don't want to become homeless. I wouldn't last very long. And then people would say "Oh, well. What can you do?"

I know how problematic going to psychiatrists is. The ones who are very good are already booked solid, so people tend to get the second rate ones unless they have money or connections. Very sad, very stressful. And I know some people just couldn't deal with the upheaval of going through all the stress of diagnosis, even if it were an option. So I don't care if people aren't diagnosed here.

I would mind, though, if it turned out that a significant (or highly vocal) subset of people who were self-diagnosed had a picture of the spectrum that was significantly different from the experience of those with diagnoses, and they promoted that picture indiscrminantly, instead of just perhaps bringing it up for discussion and seeing how common a picture it was.

Anemone the whiner

Misdiagnosis of schizophrenia for example would be one of those, "that sucks" things, as you'll most likely be prescribed medication that could very well harm you if you have an ASD (anti-psychotics and ASDs don't always mix), and hey, we're suppose to listen to the doctors, right?

I don't think this is likely to happen now compared to the past, unless of course you see someone who doesn't know what Asperger's/HFA is.

This whole thread annoys me. I felt that the first post targeted all of us self dxed as braggers who were stupid and felt sure of ourselves without knowing anything. I grew up an out cast, I don't need it. So yeah.... If you didn't mean us all, I can let it go.

If you meant just them, please try to specify so. What I still don't get is the problem some of you have with other people who just want a place to belong. If they don't know much yet, then whatever. Let them learn about it. I also think books recommended by people with it, and reading their experiances are far better than some person who has a little bitty paper and gives you their "say so". With the experiance stuff, a person gets to really try to figure it out for themselves.

About youtube commentors who are bone headed... There are always bone head thugs who leave dumb #@ comments. They do it to children and adult alike. Comments from the middle finger image, to "YOU SUCK fa***t". They do it to people who literaly mutilate themselves even. They are nothing but trolls without lives, who are incapable of acknowledging egsistance of life from another key board. They are all over Youtube.