It's pretty much confirmed

Went and saw a licenced psychologist today. She's sending me to a neuropsychiatrist but she suspects Asperger's syndrome.

My life's beginning to make sense.

So lemme ask this. What's it like living with an Aspie?

(added question)

She has a 12-year-old Asperger's syndrome son.

What symptoms of Asperger's are you showing?

So does JohnKleeb. It's really not that big of a deal. It's mostly been a problem with my time management these days. When I was in Junior High, I had LOTS more problems with it.

Ask JohnKleeb about it too.

:hi: Yeah I have it man. I dont see that specialist any more though. I am quite the shy thing around girls but, as you saw earlier someone got lucky :evilgrin:

Oh fuck. I'm the only 21 year-old virgin left on earth.

Welp, might as well keep on rolling...

Christ no, I didnt have a girlfriend as of yesterday what makes you think I wuold have one today and that we would have fucked today. I got in touch with these two cute girls I met a couple of weeks ago and they seem to like me a lot and I like them. No sex fool :).

So I'm still searching.

Wait a minute - TWO GIRLS??????!!!!!!!!

You playa, you...;-)

girls that are my friends I guess. :)
Seriously, I cant believe my younger brother did that for me. They were both cute and friendly.

I don't have a problem. Neurotypicals (persons of statistically "normal" neurology, etc) can find it a wee bit difficult, though...

I have a hell of a lot of links to good info on the subject and also a few online adult support groups, etc...shoot me a message if interested and I can pass 'em along...

My partner, Todd, has AS. Living with him can be rather strange, as he doesn't seem to get a lot of humor, he doesn't tolerate change very well, and he's rather stubborn. There are days when I think I'm losing my mind, but I try to have patience and understanding.

Good luck.

No sense of humor (although I think I have one but no one else agrees), I hate change, I'm very stubborn. Lordamercy, and I put all that off to being a Scorpio....

Are we really hard to live with? Now that I'm older, I'm starting to wonder just what my partner has gone through.

It's difficult, yes, but not unbearable. It actually helps that I'm a Taurus. There are plenty of days, though, when I feel like I live with a sloppy automaton. Of course, I couldn't live without him, and I seem to be the only person he can relate to, communicate with, or live with.

I'd rather live with TEN liberal people with AS any day than be in a room for three minutes with any Rescumlican. How's that sound?

-A

There isn't an actual test, is there?

Life with one... not always easy. But then, I'm one of those emotional types. I'm sure it's much easier for atheists/agnostics to live with one.

some of them online (note: Not actual diagnostic tools, but might give an indication of whether ther is or isn't something there...)

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html (my results on this one: 47-49 out of 50; 32 or above a "strong indicator" that one is "on the autistic spectrum", as the phrase has it these days...)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/page/0,12983,937443,00.html
(two tests; "empathy quotient" and "systematising quotient"...my results, again, highly consistent with my diagnosis of Asperger's)

33 points on the quiz. I'm officially Aspergerized.

It's a good thing I'm already mentally ill, or it might just bug me, man. And you wouldn't want me to get bugged.

( :-) of course)

--bkl

what exactly is that?
Sting

...they used to call it "high functioning autistic," and that's what they said I was. I can't say it ever bothered me all that much but now that I'm older I can see where it bothered other people.

It is more of a nuisance for a female, especially a southern female, because you are expected to be able to gush and all that good happy stuff...not being able to recognize faces was a big problem because I was hurting people unintentionally and I didn't wish to do that.


You may grow out of it. Even if you don't, you will grow out of the positive benefits like the photographic memory -- use it while you can but DON'T assume it will always be there. Being older and post-high functioning is a bummer because you have all the deficits of not having been able to socialize earlier in life with none of the fast learning abilities you had when you were younger.

If your life is beginning to make sense, you're not doing it right...life is a mystery.

is it kinda like ADHD/Anxiety disorder?
Sting

I have caffeine sensitivity which is about as close as I can get to imagining what ADHD is like but, no, it isn't the same. Many of us are not anxious or hyper at all. We can be very irritating because we are somewhat "letter of the law" and we hold people to a very high standard which can be unreasonable. I used to honestly believe that anyone who told me something and then did the other thing was a flat-out liar. I now understand that most people (and probably NO ONE over 40) has an accurate memory of most of what they say and do. Hell, the DNA studies have proved that eyewitnesses to serious crimes haven't a clue to what they have seen. But I used to be very judgemental because when I was very young I remembered everything word for word and just assumed that everyone else did too.

I don't think having Asperger's syndrome is a disease. I think it is a variation. However, people who have it need to be informed of certain information they need to get along in society. We spend a lot of time "covering up" for our embarrassment because we don't realize that no one will remember our gaffes anyway...

Some of the people I know with Asperger's DO have anxiety past the teen-age years but I'm not clear why. I like to feel I am all sensitive and have the usual anxieties, but in the interest of not making my friends choke with laughter, I've learned that I probably don't have a clue as to what clinical depression, anxiety, or some other syndromes feel like. Being a high-functioning autistic is its own thing, and it is not necessarily all that distressing. You get into yourself and your own ideas maybe more than other people do, but this can be enjoyable rather than upsetting.

i checked it out on WebMD and it kinda sounded like ADHD/Anxiety/Depression (all of which I have.) I guess I read it wrong. Seems like that is a horrible syndrome to have.
Sting

Imagine someone who is upfront and direct about everything and expects the same of you. It makes living together effortless to be free of all the emotional subtext that people expect to be read into their words and actions.

Imagine someone else who understands the difference between "thinking" and "thinking in words."

Tucker