Believe I was misdiagnosed as Aspergers ,actually MR

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I believe I was misdiagnosed as aspergers but actually suffer from a "intellectual disability", should I seek out the new diagnoses or will it hurt me more in the long run?


I never spoke up about my feelings as a child which is what lead to this i belive ,I would always throw tantrums in school because the work overwhelmed me and I saw no one else struggling ,after about the 8th grade I did 0 school work altho they kept me in normal classes.


I look back and I find it so unfair how I was distributive to other students and they didn't separate me or tell me like it was.This lead to me make a fool of myself my whole childhood and be the subject of bullying and ridicule,and I find it just so unfair to the other students but more so myself.Now at 26 I don't have the ability to cope with this realization since I was told I was just bad socially my whole life.

Don't seek out a new diagnosis, seek re-assessment, otherwise bias may interfere with the procedure.

You could be intellectually disabled, struggle socially, and not have Asperger's. I'd recommend you see somebody if you think it would help you.

The Asperger diagnosis rule out intellectual delay (acording to DSM IV: "E. There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behavior (other than in social interaction), and curiosity about the environment in childhood"). Maybe they even tested your IQ.
It is more likely that if it isnt Asperger you could have a learning disorder, or both.

I don't believe you're intellectually disabled. I think you're possibly learning-disabled, yet with at least "average" intelligence.

Not to denigrate the intellectually-disabled--but I don't believe the vast majority of people with an intellectual disability could write as well as you do.

One of the reasons you were diagnosed with Asperger's is because your were tested as not being intellectually-disabled.

Do you remember if anybody ever gave you an IQ test and what you scored (you don't have to remember the exact number)?

Mom said I was but I never really cooperated with testing and she doesn't remember the score .But I can tell by teaching myself math that I'm MR ,as well as looking at my life.

Well, how did you do in school? Your age shows 26 years old. Did you finish school? What level of math are you studying?

10th grade,I was mainstreamed for most classes but I never did the work so still not sure how I made it that far. Doing 8th grade math right now and struggling real bad ,especially on word problems.

word problems are hard. I find them hard also. I am not MR.

I am bad at math and could never learn geometry or algebra. I also needed lot of help in school with my school work. I am not ret*d. You could have a learning disability, you can have both AS and a LD. Some people just learn different. People with LDs will have inconsistent IQ scores on their test which indicates they have a learning disability.

Starting to think its a LD since I seem to understand things after hours of doing them and thinking about it in different ways.

I was doing a problem like "Samantha is making scarfs using balls of yarn,she uses 2/3 of a ball of yarn to make a scarf. If Samantha has 6 balls of yarn ,how many scarfs can she make?"

After thinking it through for a bit I did ,she can make 6 and would have 6/3's left .2/3 goes into 6/3 three times so she can make 9 ,instead of going 6 into thirds is 18/3 ,2/3 goes into 18/3 9 times so nine scarfs.