Dunno if i got AS

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Hi all.
I'm new to this, but I came across an article on AS and it pretty much sounds like me.
I never had any speech or language difficulties (on the contrary i learned to speak very early and am excellent at pickung up languages).

I've never been able to socialize normally, at school I never had many friends and couldnt fit in properly, the friends i did have thought of me as wierd. I've managed to learn to cope with this and now have many friends, but i'm still considered a little odd and still cant manage to maintain any serious romantic relationships.

I was misdiagnosed as having ADHD and was sent to occupational therapy and classes for motor development (i took a lot longer than most kids my age, only learned to tie my shoes when i was 10).

I always did well in subjects like maths and science.

I also tend to be interested in very specific things and very little else, I grew up next to an air force base and since then have always been interested in military stuff, technology and physics. This to the extent that I started an engineering degree and joined the military (dropping out of university to do so). The problem is that it tends to dominate my conversations with people and i find little else to talk about.

I just find it hard to cope in the real world sometimes.

Shane_IL, did you try taking any of these quizes or tests to see how you score?:

www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html

www.thegeeksyndrome.com/quiz/

Usually a strong sign of an AS person is that he or she gets bullied and/or made fun of often in childhood, which can continue periodically throughout life; plus, he or she rarely gets to have a real friend (that by itself isn't enough to know, but it's a good start).

Well, the one test says 80% of people with AS scored above 32, i got 40, the other test says i might have it.

Is there any definite diagnosis? These symptoms all seem very subjective.

It depends on your definition of "definite." Even a psychologist's or psychiatrist's diagnosis can be subjective even though they are licensed to give a formal stamp of approval or disapproval of a diagnosis. Personally, it seems professionals are more likely to say someone doesn't have AS when in reality he or she does, than for them to say someone has AS when he or she doesn't.

Would you mind sharing your age? The more you describe yourself, the more likely others here can help you to get an idea of how close you fit the desciption.

If you'd like to get a good idea as to how different a AS people can be from each other but yet still share the same AS traits, then a great book to read is, "Mozart and the Whale" by Jerry and Mary Newport. It tells about their lives, how they met, and it interweaves a description of AS traits within the story.

I think that the more time you spend studying about AS, the closer you will get to knowing if you are an Aspie type person.

Welcome to WP!

Tim

lol, I still can't hold a pencil 'Properly'. I was higly ridiculed by my clasmates in primary school for it. Luckily not much bullying goes on in my year at Secondary school .

I hae not gotten an official DX. Did it myself. I looked at AS and realized it was a mirror. Scored 38 on the AQ and on the aspie quiz 155 pro 33 NT. Good enough.

but beware, some of thre official statements about us are wrong: like the one that states we have no sense of humor. Like the one that we memorize rote but do not understand. We need an AS shrink.

BESIDES, it ALSO talks about Aspies appreciating and creating word based humor.

How can you memorize rote with no comprehension yet have a good memory(some have superhuman type memories), and an average to high IQ?

There is also one about the lack of imagination, yet Aspies tend to have a good spatial IQ, etc....?

As you can see, their own claims dispute their claims. Contradiction all over the place!

Steve

Here, here!

Standardized tests tend to suck...for just such reasons.

DD

We need to be moved away from Shrinks altogether. It's a brain disorder. They have no way to make an adequate diagnosis. No doctor would say, "Move your leg." Then watch you move your leg and say, "Oh yes! I can clearly see that it is broken." They would take an x-ray or something else. Until it's moved away from the field of Psychiatry, there will never be an adequate diagnosis because it's all based on subjective interpretation of answers and actions, none of which they seem to understand at all (see humor, imagination, et al). They are woefully inadequate.


The poster put it wonderfully:

Is there any definite diagnosis? These symptoms all seem very subjective.


There you go. Even Shane noticed it as soon as he took the test. You're not alone Shane. It's witch doctors when it comes to shrinks diagnosing brain problems. It all stems from the fact that it started out being considered a "behaviorial issue" that a shrink could talk, discipline or drug a child's way out of. It hasn't improved that much since.