Aspies For Freedom

What was your defining moment ... when/how did you know you had AS for sure?

Interested to hear the stories of those who want to share

The first time I heard about AS was in a internet forum for letter-diagnosed kids(ADD/ADHD/AS/Dyslexia/BP)
Then i got shocked-because I felt there was something that adverted me just as much as ADD.

I ment the parents of theese kids,but  they have made it so that others can come too,Like grownups who are dxd or self dxd and children with theese.

By the way I saw another documentary about a kid in kindergauarden with ADHD and that kid was really stressed out and kept bugging the other kids to get somekind of attenition because nobody wanted to play with him
Totally hyper kid!

I've known about Aspergers for a few years now. My husband is an Aspie, but it didn't even occur to me to look into it for myself until my husband starting coming back onto this site. It was then that he started noticing a few things that were similar to me, like hypersensitivity and stimming. (My husband is different in these aspects to me, so I was basing my opinion of Aspergers on him, not knowing anybody else).  So, then I started looking into it more, but really it was only after reading this test http://www.mkdowney.com/characteristics.html only really last week that I realised that I did actually fit. I really only read the list through once and then I just knew that I fitted in there.  I guess I didn't notice before, because I just thought I fitted into the shy category and I hadn't even realised that other people don't work out social rules the same way I did.

I've always known I thought differently.. I clumped those differences into that "probably related" category and for years looked for a matching syndrome. I was very happy to discover the AS symptom list.. it even pointed out the light/sound/touch sensitivity issues I kept reserved from the "probably related" category. It also pointed out some problems of mine I was unaware of.. But those were confirmed when I asked other people.

I have huge problems when it comes to remember a face!
It is really emberrasing.
I also have problems with names even with people I know well.

I get intense migrene if I do that for too long,or in extreme cases, epileptic seizures.

Mine is a long story.
It started with amazing depression in middle school which involved cutting and things. As of about last year I realized I wasn't even a normal outcast and something had to be wrong with me, so I looked at the symptoms. Although diagnosed with ADHD, that didn't explain the paranoia. The paranoia is the worst symptom I have. All of it is social, but it's pretty bad. I used to be scared of checking the mail because I knew that as I walked to the mailbox, everyone was staring out their window saying things like "There's that weird kid again." Logically I knew they weren't, but yeah. So that led me to think I was mildly schizophrenic. Yeah, I know. That turned into agoraphobia and then just social anxiety, but then I read something about not being able to understand certain parts of social interaction and tat branched into other symptoms and voila, here am I waiting for my appointment on the 4th of next month.

I don't expect much from a diagnosis in itself, but basically I'm having a pretty bad time right now due to things I blame on whatever it is I have. I don't see how a diagnosis could make anything worse, and I'm almost willing to blindly jump on anything that may help.

lol, that sounds like me

I have a psycologist friend who mentioned that I might be autistic...
so he semidiagnosed me sort of.
Then I took the test.
like 4 times.
I'm pretty sure I am, but not 100%

Nah, I still don't think it would pass the 50% mark...

A higher percentage than normal, perhaps. Let's say 1 in 10, for arguments sake? Still not much use as a diagnostic tool...

Actually, I think many of your ideas are pretty good - I even commented on one just recently.

That being said, I always comment when I think an idea is flawed in some way. I'm pretty sure you do the same quite often.

Actually, I did read in a few places that engineering is an aspie thing. You can't say "He likes engineering, he must autistic" anymore than you can say "He keeps to himself, he must be autistic," but in combination with other things, I think it can be viewed as a piece of evidence.

Ah, I see - That does make sense after all...