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bad news i went 2 teh psychlogist yesterday and he said i don't have asperger's But he said i still hvae ADD and dyslexia. He wanted me to continue seeing him so i can learn hwo too get alonf with my mom and dad better.

My mom said why she thought i had it and I told him about Wrong Plante...I like being a pirncess and teddy bears and thinkin about guys but he said my social abilities were to good.

Can I be an honory Aspie???

I doubt anybody would mind. You know, social skills can be learned in an analytical method. Mine are. Have you considered PDD-NOS?

i don't know what PDD-NOS is

299.80 Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified

This category should be used when there is a severe and pervasive impairment in the development of reciprocal social interaction or verbal and nonverbal communication skills, or when stereotyped behavior, interests, and activities are present, but the criteria are not met for a specific pervasive developmental disorder, schizophrenia, schizotypal personality disorder, or avoidant personality disorder. For example, this category includes "atypical autism" --presentations that do not meet the criterria for autistic disorder because of late age of onset, atypical symptomatology, or subthreshold symptomatology, or all of these.

PDD-NOS is like the catchall category for the Autistic Spectrum. Usually if someone doesn't fit any of the other disorders well enough but the psychiatrist/neurologist/psychologist still feeds an ASD is present, they will diagnose them as PDD-NOS (translated: Pervasive Development Disorder- Not Otherwise Specified).

wOw thatz 2 bad PrinCess!! !! !! ! I wanted 2 B a psychomaniac but im not murder-us eNuff that sux!

don't forget; your psych is human and cound be wrong.....perhaps.

lowfreq50 is my hero.

Ok Keith, I bow down in my humbleness to you!

Hi Mish.

Even if you don't have AS (and there are plenty of active folks here who don't), you can still be an honorary aspie. There are also a lot of people here who have various (but not on the autism spectrum) conditions, like ADD for example.

I did not realize that. *hurries off to try learning social skills*

My doc tells me to not even worry about certain social skills. He says that trying to force myself to develop them is too stressful and wastes energy.

Quite often they are wrong. As you have said, they are only human. I've noticed that a lot of doctors are reluctant to give a diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome for whatever reason. "Oh, it can't be that. It must be something else," they all say. Strangely, and possibly dangerously, once someone does get a diagnosis of Asperger's many doctors are reluctant to change that diagnosis to something else.

As Sean has pointed out, there are many things that are typically defficient in someone with Asperger's that can be learned, and then it doesn't appear to be a defficiency anymore. I work as a computer programmer. After working with ideas of logic and information flow for years, it dawned on me: "hey, this could apply to people, too." Also after having to teach people on usage of the software I've written (imagine an Aspie having to teach a crane operator at a steel mill, a man who admitted that he cannot read, how to operate a particular computer program), I've come to assume that people do not know rather than that they do know (like I used to).

The older someone gets, the more likely that person will have developed compensation skills that can pick up the slack. It becomes more difficult to pin a specific diagnosis on that person. And it certainly doesn't help that many Aspie's are very high intelligence, which means that they are more likely to develop the compensatory skills.

Hey sweetie, I've missed you. You need to get some IM clients and get a hold of me more.

I don't use IM's anymore, too distracting for me. They are like my eating skills, "don't know when to start, don't know when to stop."

*pouts* Gee how am I supposed to be able to talk to you silly?