Hi. I was told there would be free food here >_>

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Where the hell is it!?

Really I'm here out of curiousity. I met a guy on another message board who was diagnosed with AS around a year ago. I didn't did ask him about it until recently. He told me a few things and then I did some research of my own. I fit the bill for a lot of symptoms of AS so I'm here peeking in on your personal experiences trying to learn more about it, going through your cupboards and picking your pockets while I'm at it. You all have filthy cupboards and pockets >_>

Honestly, I don't think I've failed any online tests I've taken. I'll bet I could pass a test for premenstrual syndrome if it was given online, and I'm a guy. The same goes for reading criteria and relating it to my life. It isn't hard to find specific incidents in my past to match criteria for whatever I'm looking at.

AS criteria fits my early childhood experience very well though, much more than now, which is my main point in support of the fact that I probably don't have AS. I don't imagine it wears off as you age...

But, lots of unusual characteristics that made life Hell for me as a kid, got me teased, and made my parents and teachers wonder what was wrong with me were there under symptoms of AS, so I'm looking a little more deeply into it. I have a psychologist appointment coming up (first ever in my life. I'm spooked out already), and I wonder if I should mention AS now that I've found it.

And that's about it. Hi!

Hehehe, hi, welcome to WP! That was funny (the PMS thing)...

Hi. Glad you liked it.

Welcome to WP!

Tim

Thanks. I'll try not to ruin your messageboard like I have so many others.

I've heard of AS appearing later in life (it only really appeared when I left primary school in my case), but I'm not so sure about it disappearing. Did you have any obssesions? Were you nervous as a kid? Did you have a special talent? Those are the usual things with AS.

Yeah, I got yer free food right here.
Welcome to the Wrong Planet.

I've heard of AS appearing later in life (it only really appeared when I left primary school in my case), but I'm not so sure about it disappearing. Did you have any obssesions? Were you nervous as a kid? Did you have a special talent? Those are the usual things with AS.

Very nervous as a kid. I remember crying before school in kindergarten because it freaked me out so bad to be stuck in a room full of kids I didn't know. They were too wild and unpredictable for me. Also, when teachers talked to me about why my grades were terrible and if I needed help, and later why I wasn't trying when they knew I was capable of doing the work, and they'd be standing almost right on top of me drilling a hole through my head with their eyes, I wanted to run or curl up and cry. I could barely breathe or get a word out when talking to teachers one-on-one. I'm amazed none of them ever caught on to how uncomfortable that made me.

Obsessions... I'd have to think a little harder. I loved LEGO, drawing, and puzzles. My interest in those hobbies might have qualified as obsessive. With LEGO, everything had to be symmetrical. If I was making a castle or a house or anything, both or all sides had to match. If I ran out of the pieces necessary to make something symmetrical, I'd scrap whatever I was building and start again. That need for symmetry was there very early, like four or five years old. Also, I sorted pieces for hours before building anything. I had to know how many of each piece I had before going ahead. I never played with what I made when I was done, either, and I'd get very upset if anyone else tried to play with or touch whatever I had built.

Um, I was tested as gifted in the Canadian Cognitive Abilities Test in grade 6 if that means anything. It's significant to me because I was failing in every class by then. They had tried to put me in remedial classes before seeing the results of that test. Afterwards, they stuck me with all the A+ students and forced me into group projects with them and gave me hell for being lazy because I still failed everything. I got to see my scores for that test not long ago for the first time ever. I had high 70s for verbal, low 80s for math, and 99% for "Quantitative." I still don't know what that means.

I asked my dad a few days ago what I was like as a kid. He said "You liked to be alone." That sums it up pretty well >_>

Hey Searchlight. Sorry, I ate all the crisps, you may have to run down to the store to get some more.

I reckon I AM growing out of AS, but not in the sense you'd first think of. It's more of 'Oh, okay, so that could be awkward for other people, so lets fix that' and so I'm adjusting myself and becoming more self-conscious with the things I do. I know immediately now when I have a meltdown, as I have it, and am able to say to myself 'Stop, stop!'. Anyway, I looked up Quantitative on Dictionary.com for you (no, I don't go there often):

The mumbling comes from what appears to be another AS trait: Low, monotone voice. I recorded my voice just yesterday singing the Loop-de-loop song from Spongebob (the one where he forgets how to tie his shoes), and when I played it back I was surprised at how flat and unexpressive it was, and I consider myself very expressive (I'm often told to stop talking so loudly). For the accent, you'll just have to ask which one. Scottish, American, British, Spanish? It could be any. Another AS 'trait' is droopy eyelids. It wouldn't surprise me if people, when they walk past me, think I do drugs (which I don't, thank goodness).

I think why you can be social is because you have a quality that we share: Like-ability. It generally a combination of your own looks and how you present yourself, both in the way you dress, your posture (yeah, I know, ironic) and how you express yourself with your voice and ideas. When these factors come into the right balance, you may find other people will find it easier to talk to you (as opposed some to a mixture of 70's clothing and a pair of clogs and has a voice like a cat that's just been hit by a truck).

I didn't get the Quantitative thing, either.

Sweet. Sorry, can't think of anything to say!

A problem I have frequently.

I should be doing homework anyway >_>

I wouldn't mention AS to the psych, I would simply write a report about everything thats a problem, maybe even add all your strengths, and relationship/s with people.

I'm going in a week with a 12 page report on pretty much everything in my life.

Funnily enough I asked my mother about things she remembers from my childhood, and found that even more informative.

I couldn't remember some specifics of that age..

Mum said I tried to cut another kids shirt with scissors, and I cut my own hair the first time they let us use scissors.

Hmmn.