Aspergers: Do I Have It? Vote Now.

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Okay I've been feeling ill, went to my new doctor who said I might have to go to hospital. Damn.

Anyhow, reading my back history, he saw the AS diagnosis. He looked me up and down and said: "Asperger's Syndrome? No you don't have it. Do you think you have it?"

I was a bit startled by the statement. I said: "Some days I do, some days I don't"

He said "Well i don't think so. If you do, it's very mild, but I don't think so."




Lately I've been doubting my diagnosis and have talked to Aussiebloke about it. I was diagnosed by the area's AS psychologist, but he was a child psychologist and I was 23 at the time. I've done those tests online - but its gotten to the point where I know what answers will get what result.

SO...


I'm going to throw it open to the group. Ask me a question, a specific scenario or a trait, something that has a unique and non-open ended answer. Don't ask me the meaning of life, but ask something that is an Aspergian trait, and through your response to my answers, I might gain some insight into my state. It's not scientific but it would ease my mind.

So feel free to ask me a specific Aspergian question.

I think it's ridiculous for a new doctor to un-diagnose you at a glance. How arrogant. I think they should have to prove their knowledge of AS before they go around making such a potentially significant appraisal. GRR.

my new doctor said the same thing to me, but he isn't psychiatric doctor just a regular MD off the banana boat
from south africa, I don't know where some of these quacks get off on a cursory once over evaluation

OK, question.
How does it feel when someone you don't know well touches you?

He'd probably tell me the same thing, and I have complete confidence in my diagnosis.

Since your diagnoser (is that a word?) was a child psychologist, I'm assuming you focused a lot on your childhood. That is the most important part of life to focus on in getting a diagnosis; where better to diagnose a developmental disorder than during the development?

It depends on how I feel about the person. If it's a cute girl and she unexpectedly puts her hand on my shoulder or moves closer than I expected, it makes me feel good because I know I'm making a connection. If it's somebody I don't want around, I'll react the same way (that is to say, not at all) but my thoughts will be much different.

EDIT: for some reason, I thought that was the OP asking for answers to compare to his... all-nighters make me stupid.

No to clarify the OP was asking for us to ask him questions.

Were your symptoms more severe/noticeable earlier in your life than they are now?

i think it's a bit irresponsible for the new doctor to tell you that you do not have Asperger's without much investigation - all he's done was put doubts in your head. i believe that many people with asperger's do not feel that they are suffering from the disorder all the time. what's more, you do not necessarily have to have all the traits at all times to be an Aspie. depending on what you're doing, you might experience differently the extent to which your Asperger's characteristics are affecting you at a given time. if for some reason you really dislike having been labelled, then get a second opinion from an Adult Asperger's psychiatrist. good luck!

I should clarify. I had a female doctor but for some reason she wasn't there one day or didn't want to deal with me, so her husband treated me. This happened in 2008. However I went to him twice and on the second occassion he told me that I had to get this test done and I knew what the result would be so I avoided going back to him in 2009 but now I was forced to because of dire matters (unrelated to the test I avoided successfully mind you)



Hmm well I must admit I dont like being touched without permission. Like I don't like to have hands on me unless permission has been granted or acknowledged. I dont like hugs and kisses just for sake of hugs and kisses, unless it's a person I know really well, like my grandmother. Sometimes I try and just 'act' like I'm a hugger and a kisser so I'm not spotted and in the film world, everybody's a cheek kisser!



I can honestly only barely remember our sessions. I had about 8 of them as at the time I was quite depressed. I was referred to him by my original GP after an ex-girlfriend said I should see about a diagnosis. I remember our first session the child psychologist said I exhibited alot of symptoms of AS and after that from then on we started talking about depression. He put me onto this computer course for depression and I just hated it, and so didn't feel cured at the end of it it felt like I was just playing a computer game. At the end of that session he said come back if you need more help. But i honestly thought, geez and do what, play solitaire?

About 6 months later I had a terrible breakdown and I rang the numbers of psychologists in the phonebook until I got one that would see me. We had an 'emergency session' and then he asked for my referral papers and past history etc. When I was waiting for my second session - I admit this - I read my papers, I felt I had a right to. And I read what the first child psychologist had said about my AS and it was only then that I felt I might have it.

See I have trouble knowing if they were or not. I had trouble keeping friends as a child and was bullied on and off. I was also subject to multiple episodes of what you would call major social embarrassment, which could explain my social anxiety.

As for symptoms now, I am unsure as I find that I can take these symptoms and apply them also to people who I know don't have it or are undiagnosed.

I won't say you have AS or not, but that doctor was pretty dumb to basically say you DON'T have it.

If you don't want it you don't have it.

Can you hear fluorescent lights?

Do you have any sensory issues? What are they?

Hmmm? That doesn't make any sense; I've seen plenty of posts on here from people with Asperger's who wished they didn't have it.

Also, I think the OP is just trying to gauge if the diagnosis was corect; he hasn't said whether or not he wants it.

An un-diagnosis assessment ought to take at least as long as the diagnostic assessment it's (supposedly) un-doing, IMO. To un-dx you that fast he must've been going off some ignorant, superficial stereotype like "people with AS look 'ret*d' or make zero eye contact or sound weird" or something.