neuro gave me new label and said interesting stuff...

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So my new neurologist calls back and tells me, i have moderate functioning skills, which include my stimming, my sensory issues, my self injurious, my verbal iq being not high, my self help skills, my way of thinking, along with my socializing behavior is of a 5 year old, during my most strongest thinking moments, its of a 14 year old, but my mind as an autistic is high functioning, how i interact is high functioning, how i can speak, sometimes even very well is high functioning, the fact i can have a boyfriend and can drive is high functioning. My obvious need a strict routine, obivously have no care for socializing, obvious stimming, obvious sensory issues, obvious need for assistance, and obvious communication problems that would all fit you in the criteria for classic autism. He said the only symptoms i see that is not classic though is how you can give eye contact, how you can have a conversation and can handle many social situations. It seems those traits you learned to adapt as you grew older.

He said the difference between high functioning autism and aspergers is the obvious, people around you can see, he said somebody with aspergers you can't always notice their sensory issues, or that their stimming, or the fact that they need assistance, while somebody with high functioning autism is more noticable when displaying autistic traits which i found interesting. He said but overall differences between aspergers and HFA are not much different, except people with aspergers seem more prone to socializing but are very misunderstood to how to, and people with autism seem more prone to ignore the social situations and rather don't care for why they dont understand. He also some people would say people with autism have more severe sensory issues, and more noticable stimming, which i tend to agree with, but other doctors will not see a difference there. The language delay doesn't always pertain to HFA, a lot of people diagnosis children with aspergers even though they have a language delay and diagnosis children with autism but high functioning even though they didn't have a language delay.

He said overall your defintely on the spectrum, more on the lower end due to your skills but with your high functioning personality you can just about pass for an NT at times which would put you right in the middle. Considering all of that, i'm not going to put high or moderate functioning because your neither, theres times your high, moderate, and low, so i'm going to put down "functioning autistic disorder"!

Isnt that weird? I never ever heard of that one hahaha, but i found it interesting on what the said was the difference between aspergers and HFA. Anyways so yep there ya have it, i aint high or mod or low lol, im just functioning lol. I kinda love that label the best, because i consider myself high functioning because how i am, but with my moderate skills and my low functioning times, it was hard to explain to ppl, because some ppl saw my really high functioning side, and some saw my really low functioning side, it was soo confusing! What does everybody think of what my neurologist said? especially with how he said language delay doesnt always divide HFA and Aspergers?

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grats with your label but whats verbal iq?

im not so very good at talking

did you tell your doctor that your good at typing an talking to people on forums an that you are very NT on the internet? if so what would he say about that you think?

Every dr is going to throw their own dx at you. My psych insists I don't have AS only because of my social skills being quite good AND the fact that I did have a significant language delay, but I definitely do not have classic autism either.. so therefore PDD-NOS. But if I went to another, he may say the same thing as your dr did and dx me with mild AS or something. I am almost to the point of not caring about what label it is because one dr is going to say one thing and another will say the complete opposite, I just know I am mildly under the spectrum, somewhere...

I like your neurologists veiw on it. I sometimes think that maybe everyone with an ASD is better called 'autistic' and people can find out for themselves how we function (I go from seeming normal to being oblivious to everything and nearly getting hit by cars). But his ideas seem to give the catagories some proper meanings.

I found a website recently with a 'translation' of the diagnostic criteria for autism and it does not require language delay. I actually meet their interpretation of the criteria for autism (if I go by what I was like as a small child) and I think of myself as an undiagnosed Aspie or even only Asperger's traits! Annoyingly, I can't find that website now. If I find it again, I'll post it here. I remember I fit the criteria because I did echolalia when I was little, although I learned to speak at the normal age.
It's really annoying that I can't find that webpage because the way they translated the bit that's the same for Asperger's Syndrome was different from how I interpreted it. With what I thought it meant, I'm not AS, but with their intepretation, I am.

I would find the simple word thing a hell of a lot more simpler to understand than that of an NT ...
Simplicity, therefore you are superior.

There is not point in using a huge amount of words to say the simplest thing that can be better said with just a few select but precisely chosen words.

I personally just love to use all the words I can, apparently, the better words are longer than the standard and better fitting than that a NT would use.

Still waiting for my diagnosis

Words are usless. For a trained 'professional' to be impressed that you are 'able' to make eye contact is ridiculous. We all learn, adapt.