Aspergers/ASD support thread

PasturesNew

I guess it will end up taking me months/years to get a diagnosis. If ever.
I moved to this area about 6 months ago, not even signed up with a Doctor yet.
I keep myself to myself. Going to a Doctor is pretty unnecessary unless there's something seriously life threatening or some hideous symptoms appear and won't go away after weeks/months.

PasturesNew

kit wrote: »

Sounds like you are a real asset as an employee! Most companies would love to have you on their team!
Would I be able to ask you a few questions just to help me? Either on this board or in a PM?

Sorry, I didn't spot this before. Sometimes this board moves so fast.
Yes, you can ask.
Ask away.

Here is as good as anywhere, as it's about AS, it might show some behaviours or thought processes to others.

studentphil

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

My son, at school in the 80s and 90s - he is now almost 28 - was not diagnosed either as AS was not recognised. Although they did make him an appointment with an Ed Psych who was very nice and said that Ben was very much a 'square peg in a round hole' (which if you think of it is a good description odf AS). It wasn't until about two years ago, when two people quite unconnected with each other asked in the same week if Ben could possibly have AS, that I started looking into it. He ticked most odf the boxes. We mentioned it to him, and HE thought he ticked most of the boxes.

His girlfriend, who at 20 is 7.5 years younger than him, has been diagnosed for some time. So those few years made all the difference.

Ben doesn't want a formal diagnosis, he thinks he will be 'labelled' and that is his decision and I respect it. But knowing he almost certainly has this condition has certainly made things a whole sight clearer for me!

I think I too may be on the spectrum.

I think square peg in a round hole applies to most disabilities. Clearly reading emotions makes you more square, however, reading extereme emotions isn't that hard but expressions are even tricky for non- AS people.

MyUserNamesTaken

PasturesNew wrote: »

I got a 47 on this.


"Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives. "

Although I do find some questions hard to understand what they mean. But I guess that's partly because of the spectrum

I got 42 - the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

sarah1975uk

Just a thought that there are so many people going to their GPS then getting diagnosed with "mental health problems" and dosed up with Medication to push them out the door, when actually im wondering if these people acually have some range of ASD that was never previously diagnosed due to lack of knowledge from professionals etc and therefore not being helped to manage properly without the use of just being plied with pills... Especially when ASD causes so much confusion perhaps doctors are confusing ASD that has such a broad spectrum of traits and symptoms verses that of with Mental health illnesses .. What do you all think??

studentphil

I got 32 on that test but I aren't AS so I am not sure how much faith you should put in it.

PasturesNew

sarah1975uk wrote: »

Just a thought that there are so many people going to their GPS then getting diagnosed with "mental health problems" and dosed up with Medication to push them out the door, when actually im wondering if these people acually have some range of ASD that was never previously diagnosed due to lack of knowledge from professionals etc and therefore not being helped to manage properly without the use of just being plied with pills... Especially when ASD causes so much confusion perhaps doctors are confusing ASD that has such a broad spectrum of traits and symptoms verses that of with Mental health illnesses .. What do you all think??

Yes. I have in the past on a lot of occasions been diagnosed as depressed. But I stopped going to the Doctors/getting the tablets because I didn't FEEL depressed.

These were in 1968, 1972-1976, 1982-1986.

Now I can see that I was telling the Doctor how I felt, but perhaps the Doctor was pre-deciding that I was depressed so hearing what they expected to hear. But I didn't FEEL depressed - I know that now. Just sort of distant from everybody else. That is something I was asked when I phoned Samaritans once because I just wanted to talk to somebody. They just asked "how do you feel about that". It's that whole "how do you feel" question that's always thrown me. I never knew the answer. I didn't know what to say, so I tried to answer the question. I guess my failure to communicate at this level made the Doctor pre-suppose I was depressed because I'd say I wasn't getting on with anybody, I wasn't happy at work, things were getting me down. But that wasn't depressed. I see that now. I felt it then... NOT depressed; so stopped asking for help. I also felt that if I went back one more time they'd stick me into a loony bin for 2 weeks' evaluation and I thought I'd be labelled as mad forever more. So I stayed quiet and learnt how to deal with life myself.

Because of all that I lost several jobs - and it set a pattern of inappropriate jobs for the next 20 years.

kylieM_2

Hi MyUserNameTaken I finally got round to doing the first test you posted for me and I got INFP the Healer

It would seem I think more with my feelings than my head. those with this personality trait were - Diana, Audrey Hepburn, Mia Farrow and Richard Gere of all people. (clawless hampsters are not my thing for the record)

seven-day-weekend

I - 67
S - 62
F - 50
J - 67

for me.

Oh no! I'm the same as President Bush:eek: (Senior)

But also Mother Theresa

A Guardian Protector.

GUARDIAN SJs, being CONCRETE in communicating and COOPERATIVE in implementing goals, can become highly skilled in LOGISTICS. Thus their most practiced and developed intelligent operations are often supervising and inspecting (SJT adminstering), or supplying and protecting (SJF conserving). And they would if they could be magistrates watching over these forms of social facilitation. They are proud of themselves in the degree they are reliable in action, respect themselves in the degree they do good deeds, and feel confident of themselves in the degree they are respectable. In search of security as they are the "Security Seeking Personality" -- trusting in legitimacy and hungering for membership. They are usually stoical about the present, pessimistic about the future, fatalistic about the past, and their preferred time and place is the past and the gateway. Educationally they go for commerce, avocationally for regulations, and vocationally for materiel work. They tend to be enculturating as parents, helpmates as spouses, and conformity oriented as children

kylieM_2

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I - 67
S - 62
F - 50
J - 67

for me.

Uh no! I'm the same as President Bush

I might go back through your posts and make a book out the stupid things you have said If you are talking about the recent Bush