No longer diagnose with Aspergers?

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I was once diagnosed with Aspergers. I take things literally and very detailed. When I read, I analyze each words. I picture stuff in my mind when I read. There are some stuff I am not able to picture in my mind that are abstract. When I read, it doesn't invoke any senses like pictures, smells, and such. I didn't know readers had this. When I eat, I like it hot like when you microwave and not spicy hot. Loud sounds like fire engines and police calls and ambulance hurts my ear. I also don't smell stuff that people do.

After I take medicine, I do take things literally but not that much. I know I am not detailed since I just read words and nothing comes to mind. No picture or anything. But not invoking senses when reading is still there. I can eat food that are room temperature and not so picky in regards to very hot food like I mentioned. I still don't like loud sounds that I mentioned above. I also don't smell some stuff that people do like one of my friends don't shower and his whole room smells. The other people smell it but I don't.

My doctor don't know about this stuff about I mentioned in the second paragraph. She just says by talking to me, I communicate fine and that is why I am no longer diagnosed with Aspergers. They say Aspergers have trouble with abstract stuff.

I do read psychology and apply that to other areas. For example, I took something like a term or concept in one psychology textbook and merge with other concepts or terms in other chapters or in other subjects. I use that to explain why we behave or explain how the life works or how nature works. I don't know if this is considered that I understand abstract stuff (show in day program; they say I am smart because I know psychology).

I do have trouble understanding stuff like the word concept or potential energy. Someone defined potential energy with the word "potential" in it. I also not able to visual what it is. In psychology, they say concepts are "mental groupings". But I'm not able to understand that definition and don't know how to make the word "mental" concrete. This is the abstract stuff that I have trouble with.

In regards to language, I always wrote as a second grader till beginning of college. I wrote sentences like, "he went to the store." "there was..." Very short sentences. When I got to community college, I couldn't put words together to make into sentences. The english classes required sentence variety. It was very hard but I was able to do it.

So how my language improve, I have no idea. The Doctor don't know this and I don't have my writing as a child and through high school (meaning no proof; I don't know how schools miss or maybe they knew and said nothing). I also don't have some of my writing from college. When I mentioned to a therapist, she said that my language improved a little (like she dismissed that I could get more services; this is quite sad; I could got help long time ago).

When I talk, I don't talk for my age. I don't talk with lots of vocabulary and long sentences like adults. I'm in my low 30s.

So I don't understand about the Asperger diagnosis. Do I have it or not? I took two IQ test. One was IQ 88 and four years later, IQ 89. They even diagnosis me learning disability. Since I do show that I can apply psychology stuff in life, nature, or from other related psychology concepts or unrelated subjects in other areas, they may speculate that I don't.

So I don't understand what is happening to me and how I fit some of the diagnosis and not. I do think I have Aspergers and a learning problem. But doctor don't diagnose me with those. That means I can't get services for Aspergers since I don't have that diagnosis. Forgot to mention, I do have trouble understanding people and have poor social skills.

What makes people in the Autism Spectrum different. For example, normal development and talking to people but have trouble with Social Skills. I do have trouble understanding metaphors. But after medication, I appear to understand some metaphors. I think I understand and found the secret how people make metaphors relating two different things.


Any comments about what I mentioned is greatly appreciated or feedback or thoughts. I like people's thoughts so I can maybe understand what is happening and other things I mentioned.

I can not tell based on one post if you are autistic or not. The "doctor" should not have "undiagnosed" you based on a few interactions. Autism is a lot more than communication issues and some Autistics can and do learn social communication skills by the time they are adults.

Diagnostic Criteria for Aspergers

Diagnostic Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Aspergers Disorder has been retired as an official diagnostic label in favor of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Can you tell more about your other diagnoses? and how your Psychiatrist came up with those?

How do my first psychiatrist diagnose me with Aspergers? I don't know. And they won't tell you. My third doctor which I see now, all she said that my communication was fine. There must be other reasons that my communication don't fit in the autism spectrum.

I thought I was one when I read the criteria. A therapist said that I take things to literally and that there might be other explanations to that. For some reason, they ask if I knew what it was. I did know what it was.

Problem with diagnosis, they not detailed and give examples or how they derived those features. For example, how come they have are time with abstract stuff and metaphors? We all don't understand every abstract stuff or metaphors.

It appears that I start understanding metaphors such as when they speak of a metaphor and I understand it. Maybe the medicine helped in regards to whatever. I still don't understand it though because don't make you reason, logic, understand things, and etc with medication. If there was such a medicine, we all be smart.

I think I fit but I haven't seen how people in the Autism Spectrum behave. I have no idea. Maybe my symptoms not severe to eliminate the diagnosis but the features don't mention its severity.

If one able to manage some of the features or symptoms, do the doctors take you off the diagnosis? I read that you can be mentally ill but not diagnosed due to the severity or the severity of how it interferes with your life.

I don't think my other diagnosis has an affect for Autism Spectrum.