Aspies For Freedom

Hi, I have the same problem to diagnose if I'm an aspie or not ...

I've noticed some characterists of my behavior that are associeted with autism, (i can't stand small talk, I'd rather be alone than with someone, i love patherns) but others are the oposit (I love debates - over a valid topic - and i can easily read between the lines of a conversation and tell what other people are thinking)...

I took all the online tests you've pointed at the first topic and they gave me mixed results... Is there any definitive method to determine if I'm an aspie or not?

IMHO--no.

It's kinda like being pregnant, either you are or you aren't!! :lol: No - "just a little bit"!! :shock:

Stella Wrote:

Liorda Wrote:

It's kinda like being pregnant, either you are or you aren't!! :lol: No - "just a little bit"!! :shock:

Surely, it's in the nature of a spectrum condition that there are no cut-off points. :smile:

There is an unbroken continuum of expressions all the way from profound autism to neurotypicalism.

This, together with the fact of learned compensatory strategies to get around the famous "triad of impairments" and the lack of biomedical tests of any kind, is what makes ASD so difficult to diagnose in adults.

Stella

So, as adults we've learned to compensate for our "conditions" by using our superior intelligentence. I don't understand how that makes it so hard to dx us???? Or does it? Do they really want to dx adults?

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My mother told me I started talking when I was very young but became less talkative as I grew older.

That also happened to me!
But I don't think it is possible to develop autism, maybe we have some other kind of disorder...

About the compensatory strategies, I guess I use some of them... I always had echolalia, but when I was young I used to repeat things out load, now I just repeat in my head... I also avoid doing repetitive movements in public!

Are there any other disorder with this symptoms?

karms Wrote:

theosoph Wrote:

Based on your language development in very early childhood, would determine whether you are classic autism, or towards the AS side. If you were mute as a child - it would be considered classic autism. If you had average to above average language development, you'd be AS.

My mother told me I started talking when I was very young but became less talkative as I grew older.

karms Wrote:

By the age of about 3-4 I became extremely shy and didn't talk much to anyone, including adults. :cry: I wonder what happened to me, because this is what I am today still.

My experience was the same. In kindergarten I was awarded a certificate for reading several grades higher than average. Before school I was very talkative at home, but when I went to school I clammed up - my thinking is that this happened because school brought out all the social problems that I still live with now. Sad

I'm so glad to meet kindred spirits! :smile:

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