Am I an NT?

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I am diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, but according to various people and mental health professionals, even the ones that say I don't have it admit I have a few traits at least. I have problems with social interaction, but not as bad as many people with AS, and I also have special interests, but it's not considered bad enough. I do have severe meltdowns and shutdowns and stims however, but I don't like to talk about them with docs.

Am I an NT then??? Aspie quiz and AQ place me right at the border of NT and AS.

What should we in the borderlands be called? NTAS? lol. or switch around the letters, we are ANTS! LOL

Anyway, I always felt I was not like other people, it was obvious when I was the child that had meltdowns everyday in school. In college, I told my best friend I did not feel like a human being. So could feeling be part of it???

Yeah, I know. I feel like I am in the middle too.

Same here. I used to not think I had Asperger's (because I hate labels!), then for a period of time I did, and now, I'm not sure.

Here's why: I am extremely worried that I won't follow a social norm (and I used to not be like that, either...maybe it's just me being a teenager), my interests are in multitudes (medical anything, video games, writing, reading, literature, art, manga, anime, chiptune music, Mario trivia, religion, feminism, and pop culture from the 1930's and 1940's-the early 2000's), (sorry if I'm being stereotypical) everyone thinks I'm super-intuitive about other people, and I just feel like I'm shallow in general. I might have ADD inattentive, but I'm not sure if my testing will show that, there's no way that I can be gifted, and the only disorder that I might actually have is anxiety, which I can work with.


So, in the end, I'm not sure. Isn't borderline Asperger's and NT-ness called PDD-NOS, though? (Nobody knows anything about that.)

Angnix, you might be an Aspie, but you may have learned some techniques on how to survive in The World Of Normality.

Maybe that's both me and ocdgirl123...I don't know.

I've always felt that I've been different, too, and that's probably when my interest in mental health kicked in. Maybe it is part of AS...I don't know. I'm diagnosed with it, but I'm not sure enough about myself and Asperger's, except for the fact that I was a preemie and that I feel different...hmm....I know this is crazy, but were you born with your mother having complications, because there might be a link to a complicated delivery, Asperger's, or giftedness.

I'm getting off-topic...^^''

I do that a lot.

Anyway, back on point, I'm not sure that I even have anything.

I don't know about my delivery... the thing I do know is both my parents were mentally ill, and so am I. I don't deny that, but I think there is something else weird going on on top of that.