Is there such a thing as an "Aspergic Attack"?

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My Aspergers seems to come in bursts of about a week.
Is Aspergers something that can be "triggered"?
Or perhaps it feeds on other conditions like tiredness or stress?

What do you think?

I think you may be mistaken. Aspergers syndrome is pervasive and permanent. It does not come in spurts, and does not happen episodically. (sp?)

Its there in everything you do, it is your whole personality, not a part of it.

Eh, when I'm very stressed out, my Autistic behaviours become more obvious and less concealed. I wouldn't consider it as an attack though, but merely letting my guard down.

Are you referring to meltdowns? You are who you are. You don't switch between nt and as. Of course you can fake nt, but hey, that's not really nt right?

I'm guessing the OP is referring to periods where you are more apsie like than NT. I find myself being more apsie some days and some other days, more NT

You can have good days and bad days. But AS is not like Epilepsy. It's there permanently. But sometimes, like I said, we can all have good days and bad days, which make the AS look obvious sometimes and not so obvious other times. When I'm having a bad day, I scowl and storm about and am on the verge of lashing out and I glare at people and look very angry. This may not look like AS to other people, but it still makes me draw attention to myself. But when I'm having a good day (which is not very often), I can appear more confident and I will smile more and even want to talk to people more and put on a more sociable vibe.

That seems perfectly natural. To be able to function in an NT society, you build up an NT persona/shell around yourself. That persona takes energy to maintain, so when you have less energy, because of stress or whatnot, your real self leaks out more. So then it *seems* like you are more aspie, but it's just that it comes through more.

You can have decompensation with AS which is where you are temperarely loosing your ability to compensate. A decompensation episode can last from a few days to 6 months or longer...very much dependant on internal/external stress factors, hormones, changes in the enviroment can lead to decompensation as well.

If you go to the parrents section, they could talk to you more about decompensation.

Finding out the trigger for decompensation is alot like being a detective.
Keep a chart and a journal.
Write about things that effected you that day, good or bad.
Then do a chart summarizing what you wrote in the journal and give yourself a score of 1-10. 1 being the least functional you can get and 10 being the most functional you can get.
If you do this everyday, patterns will emerge.
dont forget to add hormonal events like your period if you have one.

Once you discover the cause, try to eleminate it or at least minimize it.

Jojo

Fluctuations could be due to sensory overloads. I had a bit of an episode this morning and I'm not sure what the trigger was. I hadn't looked out my clothes for today and we were going out for dinner later, so I wanted to look nice. Everything I tried on was irritating me or making me hot and sweaty (which is quite common for me but particularly bad today). I was almost at breaking point and phoned my parents to tell them I'd be later than planned, when I decided to go sort my hair and put on some make-up. After the break, I picked out a dress that was perfect - what was all the fuss about?

My daughter's personality seems to change periodically. She can be quite moody for a few days, then becomes really loving and happy again and traits can be more or less pronounced. I don't know what all the triggers are, but we've had some success by reducing (trying to eliminate) dairy.

I took me years to figure this out but you can start to feel the load you're putting you brain under. 10-20% feeling awesome, energetic, can handle anything. 60-70 percent mild dull head ache, a little confused, shortish attention span, emotional control, problems holding information. 90-100% is a meltdown. By recognising this I've learned to manage my stress, sensory input ect so that I don't have so much of a swing in my ability to do thing. at about 65% I start doing things to mitigate the situation get food, watch, play a mediation track I keep on my MP3 player. find somewhere with low sensory information and stress.

A big part of it is staying hydrated, something I forget to do often. And I found eating healthy a huge help, it's strongly linked to blood sugar level, for best result i keep it even. but I sometimes carry granola bars too.

sometimes it feels like you have it more in crowded places, if you haven't gotten much sleep, depressed, or when you are stressed.