Opposite Symptoms

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I can't sleep well so I will make a post.

Anyway, I think I may have AS, and my therapist does, but there are some things I do that seem opposite of AS:

Too much eye contact, instead of not looking at someone, I look at someone too much.

Non-verbal cues, instead of not getting these, I understand them, but then I see cues that are not there, getting it wrong anyways actually

No alexythemia, I have very intense emotions I can name, I can't control them very well, but I know what they are.


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What is this? Anyone else with opposite symptoms?

Too much eye contact is also an ASC thing and not getting the non-verbal stuff right is also a thing, not everyone has alexythemia either. It's a Spectrum condition.

You probably are on the Spectrum but taking an online test would probably help you be sure. I don't know good ones as I was officially diagnosed but I hear some of them are pretty good.

I agree with what LostAlien said...

Even though people on the spectrum typically don't like being touched, I quite like it. I love the sensation skin-to-skin contact.

I like being touched but only by peple I like or love.

Online tests say I am close to having it or I have it. I've just been agonizing over this for a long time now, as you can see by my forum status, it's just the opposite symptoms are still confusing me. Also people in my life insisting that I don't have it along with people that say I do.

The closest place I think was charging 1,000 dollars to diagnose the last time I checked, but they take 90% off for the lowest income people so maybe they would do it for 100 dollars, but this would mainly be for my own piece-of-mind. But those people mostly access children.

I honestly do not get this whole "peace of mind" thing with a formal diagnosis. You are FAR better qualified to dx yourself than any PhD is. The medical profession cannot even get the criteria down for what ASD is about without changing it all thetime. There is ZERO (NONE) standardized way to assess an adult. If you bother to do just a tiny bit of reading, you will see that the professionals even still miss with kids.

Look... If you think you have it, you do. You seem to have all the traits.

So there. You are officially Dx'd via WP. So accept that and move on already. At some point you just gotta buck up and figure out how to live with this. Maybe this is your time. What good is all this back and forth?

I would agree with you - with the exception of one issue. I'm self diagnosed - and if I went to a thousand professionals and every one of them failed to diagnose me, I would just assume that gave me a list of a thousand people who didn't know what they were doing. Yes, I'm that sure. There are far too many things in my life which only make sense in light of that fact. So I'm not troubled by the lack of a formal diagnosis.

What does trouble me is the fact that many other people will never accept what I already know to be true - unless I have it validated by a formal diagnosis. Infuriating? Of course. Proof we live in a world mostly controlled by idiots? Yes again. But it is still the world we live in, I'm stuck living on this strange planet and so I've got to find a way to deal with the way it works.

I don't know if this is what the OP meant, but it is what I would mean, and the only reason I'd bother seeking a diagnosis. Because you are so very right in everything you say...

Yep.
This is the problem with being on the fringe at the get go , and having some age on you to adapt. These pros's can't see it from the outside, as I know you have bipolar and a schizophrenic type Dx. I'd think it tough to sift through this now.

They could all be AS symptoms.

It's not as simple as: lack of eye contact, can't read body language and has no empathy.
Especially if you are an adult who has learnt some coping mechanisms or picked up some knowledge along the way.