Aspies For Freedom

Welcome!!!

Nice to meet you! sorry It's taken so long to reply, usually someone has replied by now, but it does mean I get to reply first!

I'm also fifteen, and only diagnosed with asperger syndrome. Sounds like you only have asperger too, a lot of the other things you were diagnosed with are related to that. here are my Diagnoses:

1. OCD: maybe, I sometimes feel like I have to do something, stayed home for a week because I thought something bad was gonna happen!

2. Bipolar: Lots of aspies (asperger people (we nicknamed ourselves! yay! )) experience random mood swings, I for one get angry for no apparent reason.

3. ADHD: Again, a possibility. I don't pay any attentoin to things that don't interest me, and when I'm in a good mood, I can get hyperactive (really annoys my brother!).

All of these are traits of aspies, so it might not mean you have them. It does make life fun though when someone asks if you have been diagnosed with anything!

It was nice meeting you, and if you ever want to talk to me again, just ask my mum (tigger_the_wing) as I'm not actually online very often.

c ya!

ps. I like like cheese, you?

pps. I also like computer games, and currently play World of Warcraft.

15 is a good age to be! I get to drive soon! (where I live people can get their licence at the age of 15 years 9 months)

also, I do like cheese A LOT, I like the way they make cheese, and I just wonder who it was who thought "Hey, I have some mouldy hardened milk here, lets see if it's edible!", and then proceeded to harden the milk in different ways to make it taste different!

also, yes, WoW is incredibly addictive, but I find the best way to fund it is through game cards, that way, you buy a game card, play for 60 days, then it runs out, and you don't play for about 30 days, and then buy a new one!  usually I get really nervous when it starts to run out and think, " Oh god its gonna run out soon! MUST. BUY. NEW. GAME CARD." then it runs out and I don't care anymore. funny how the human mind works!

you seem great, nice meeting you!

c ya!

ps. I also like peanut butter, and sometimes eat it straight out of the jar with a spoon! mmmmm... *has hungry thoughts about peanut butter*

Welcome to the other world of Aspergia.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition Text Revision 2000 (DSM-IV-TR):

299.80 Asperger's Disorder

Qualitative impairment in social interaction, as manifested by at least two of the following:
• marked impairment in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors such as
             eye-to eye gaze, facial expression, body postures, and gestures to
             regulate social interaction
• failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental level
• a lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, or achievements
             with other people (e.g., by a lack of showing, bringing, or pointing out objects
             of interest to other people)
• lack of social or emotional reciprocity

Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests and activities, as
manifested by at least one of the following:
• encompassing preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and restricted
             patterns of interest that is abnormal either in intensity of focus
• apparently inflexible adherence to specific, nonfunctional routines or rituals
• stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms (e.g., hand or finger flapping
             or twisting, or complex whole-body movements)
• persistent preoccupation with parts of objects

The disturbance causes clinically significant impairment in social, occupational,
or other important areas of functioning.

There is no clinically significant general delay in language (e.g., single words used
by age 2 years, communicative phrases used by age 3 years).

There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the
development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behavior (other
than in social interaction), and curiosity about the environment in childhood.

Criteria are not met for another specific Pervasive Developmental Disorder
or Schizophrenia.

And what I like the most? Aspies unerring ability to annoy the hell outta me

OK. Option 2 is:
ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1992.

F84.5 Asperger's Syndrome
A disorder of uncertain nosological validity, characterized by the same kind of qualitative abnormalities of reciprocal social interaction that typify autism, together with a restricted, stereotyped, repetitive repertoire of interests and activities. The disorder differs from autism primarily in that there is no general delay or retardation in language or in cognitive development. Most individuals are of normal general intelligence but it is common for them to be markedly clumsy; the condition occurs predominately in boys (in a ratio of about eight boys to one girl). It seems highly likely that at least some cases represent mild varieties of autism, but it is uncertain whether or not that is so for all. There is a strong tendency for the abnormalities to persist into adolescence and adult life and it seems that they represent individual characteristics that are not greatly affected by environmental influences. Psychotic episodes occasionally occur in early adult life.

Diagnostic Guidelines
Diagnosis is based on the combination of a lack of any clinically significant general delay in language or cognitive development plus, as with autism, the presence of qualitative deficiencies in reciprocal social interaction and restricted, repetitive, stereotyped patterns of behaviour, interests, and activities. There may or may not be problems in communication similar to those associated with autism, but significant language retardation would rule out the diagnosis.

Includes:
. autistic psychopathy
. schizoid disorder of childhood

Excludes:
. anakastic personality disorder
. attachment disorders of childhood
. obsessive-compulsive disorder
. schizotypal disorder
. simple schizophrenia

Ian, you seem to forget, that that particular aspie ability, is reciprocal.

I'm more "shave" than "have" but I'm much more for "have" than "shave" because it makes more sense. In any which way, Welcome To The Forums!!!

Turtles have flippers.
Tortoises have legs.

Aspieness overload sensed.....

You do make sense. Thank you for the correction and interesting information.

Should I take it that you do not shave your legs, but that you are a land turtle?

"Legs and feet. A turtle's legs and feet vary according to the habitat of the species. Land turtles, particularly tortoises, have heavy, short, clublike legs and feet. Most freshwater turtles have longer legs and [flat] webbed feet. Sea turtles have legs shaped like long paddles, with flippers instead of feet."
http://www.worldbook.com/wb/worldbook/cy...kturt.html

Try this: http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthread.php?tid=134

There's a new link, look here.

Welcome! I myself am afraid of little doors and some other thing.

Na see I like that cuz that's you doing...what you do.

I mean the Aspies that moan about how shit life is constantly

You could try:
"Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome': A User Guide to Adolescence"
by Luke Jackson