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Fuck! I think I have Aspergers Syndrome

I'm not upset or anything. I find it rather remarkable to have figured it out at last.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger's_syndrome

Interesting reading.

I can function is social situations quite well infact, I'm not shy or anything like that. I'm quite forth-right. But in varying degrees I have every single characteristic of Aspergers.

Amazing. Well, that's a revelation anyway.
 
The Question said:
People seem to just be catching it from public toilets these days.
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I don't know what you're talking about. If you're infering that I am over-reacting then that is a pretty unfair assumption to make. I am able to make this judgement call myself.

Took the official medical test and scored 94% higher than all the people who have taken it. 32 is the score where 80% were diagnosed with AS. I scored 37.

Plus I know myself extremley well.

I'm not trying to get into some club or anything.


I do find it an interesting thing to discover though.
 
The Question said:
People seem to just be catching it from public toilets these days.
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From what I understand, it has always been a common condition, just not often diagnosed or understood.
 
I'm borderline. I can tell if someone is happy or sad from looking at facial expressions and some of the more severe social abnormalities I have only in very slight doses but I am text-book on most of the behavioural traits.

I do have trouble deciphering intent in converstation and I speak in a very pedantic and sophisticated mannner. I have worked on toning it down over the years.

I have one or two subjects that I am incredibly intense about at any one time and I cannot be swayed or interested in anything else at all. I then sudddenly stop focusing on something almost alltogether and start on something else. This has been the same through my enitre life. I don't just persue a topic, I assimilate it all until I know it inside out. This is helpful in being extremely proficient in areas of my personal interest but it is a strange trait and I get increasingly agitated if I can not persue my routine and spend sufficent time studying and absorbing my current interest at that one time. I am totally one track in my focus at any one moment. I have an obsessive personality.

I had no time for authority figures at school not out of insubordination but because I believed everyone should no matter their station be treated equally and I could not grasp the concept otherwise. That was desribed EXACTLY in what I have been reading. Literally every point in varying degrees of intensity I have in some form. I have little doubt that I have this, it's really weird reading about it, I also have an eidetic memory for trivial facts, a severe aversion to change of routine and I have a very strong aversion to having my head or hair touched by anyone.. It goes on and on.

My School voiced their concerns that I may have AS but I was never diagnosed with it. I accidentally stumbled across it today and because of my past years being connected with it I read on and was pretty taken back by the sumamry of my behaviours it showed. I was an over-achiever until I got kicked out for my inability to function at school. Basically due to everything outlined by AS.

I'm not too thrilled by it to be honest. But it does explain my modus operandi through my entire life in exacting detail.

Nice to explain to a bunch of people why you're neurobiologically screwed in the head I feel.
 
You should try to get professionally diagnosed, Mentalist. Now, tell me about treatment options. This is a very interesting syndrome.
 
It's incurable. Apparantly.

The overwhelming majority of available information on Asperger syndrome relates to children; there is currently more conjecture than hard evidence on how it affects adults. It is thought that most people with Asperger syndrome learn to cope with their social impairments later in life. However, there is no "cure" as such, and some people, including prominent clinicians such as Attwood and some of those diagnosed with Asperger's, would strenuously argue that a cure is neither possible nor desirable (see "A gift and a curse" and "Culture" below), mainly pointing out that the syndrome is a hereditary trait and attempts to "cure" or eliminate it would be an example of eugenics. Organizations such as Cure Autism Now disagree; this remains a highly controversial area.
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I probably will get it verified at some point. They were convinced I had it at School but I was adamant I wasn't going to listen to anything they had to tell me at that point in my life.
 
Kerb Crawler said:
It's just a phase. It'll pass.
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You know, I really hate it when people say this. How the hell do you know? You don't live my(or in this case his) life! It could be something more serious than "just a phase." That's just peoples way of dimissing things, and it's really fucking irritating.......

Nothing against you Kerby, that's just one of my pet peeves.
 
Mentalist said:
You did come to mind, though I wasn't going to say anything.
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Castek diganosed me years ago. As bad as we are, ComsicAverage is definitely the most severe case of it I've seen in the MF.
 
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