03-30-2008, 01:51 PM
03-31-2008, 07:37 AM
Anyhow, I'd like to add... some people (even these days) don't get "picked up" and/or diagnosed until 25 or 30. That you hadn't been "picked up" on earlier does not mean you couldn't qualify for an Asperger's diagnosis now.
AS shows up differently in every single person. Notice how the Math/academic freaks don't often have significant executive dysfunction, for instance. So perhaps instead of getting the "classic AS gifts" in our package, we get executive dysfunction instead. And perhaps, then, since we're less focused on academics, we seem more socially-oriented than the more typical Aspies. One trait/gift switched off, another trait/deficit switches on.
Perhaps only now are the atypical Aspies (like you and I) being observed properly.
AS shows up differently in every single person. Notice how the Math/academic freaks don't often have significant executive dysfunction, for instance. So perhaps instead of getting the "classic AS gifts" in our package, we get executive dysfunction instead. And perhaps, then, since we're less focused on academics, we seem more socially-oriented than the more typical Aspies. One trait/gift switched off, another trait/deficit switches on.
Perhaps only now are the atypical Aspies (like you and I) being observed properly.
03-31-2008, 07:46 AM
I wish the alien would just come and finally abduct me and splice my DNA with theirs, of course to better their own chances of survival when they come to terra-form our planet to their needs.
03-31-2008, 08:17 AM
quickduck Wrote:
Batman55 Wrote:
Anyhow, I'd like to add... some people (even these days) don't get "picked up" and/or diagnosed until 25 or 30. That you hadn't been "picked up" on earlier does not mean you couldn't qualify for an Asperger's diagnosis now.
AS shows up differently in every single person. Notice how the Math/academic freaks don't often have significant executive dysfunction, for instance. So perhaps instead of getting the "classic AS gifts" in our package, we get executive dysfunction instead. And perhaps, then, since we're less focused on academics, we seem more socially-oriented than the more typical Aspies. One trait/gift switched off, another trait/deficit switches on.
Perhaps only now are the atypical Aspies (like you and I) being observed properly.
AS shows up differently in every single person. Notice how the Math/academic freaks don't often have significant executive dysfunction, for instance. So perhaps instead of getting the "classic AS gifts" in our package, we get executive dysfunction instead. And perhaps, then, since we're less focused on academics, we seem more socially-oriented than the more typical Aspies. One trait/gift switched off, another trait/deficit switches on.
Perhaps only now are the atypical Aspies (like you and I) being observed properly.
Although I’m sure in my own mind that I’m on the spectrum somewhere--I suppose I’m a little worried that I wouldn’t be able to convince a GP; and therefore I wouldn’t get referred to a specialist.
And then even if I did get a referral…and if I am indeed an atypical aspie or aspie cousin…how would they classify me? I’d probably get told I have aspie traits but am not actually aspie (which is sort of what I know already). It just seems an awful lot of effort for very little gain.
You'd be able to convince a GP if you had very odd speech or if you stimmed very outwardly, or both. If you don't have those traits (and a lot of Aspies do not) it seems like you would not be able to convince a GP. But then, neither would the many, many Aspies who don't stim obviously and don't talk very oddly (or have mutism.) They are in your boat, but they got a DX... eh?
Anyhow, what traits are you missing that would lead you to say "I don't have enough for an official DX" ?
04-01-2008, 08:06 AM
quickduck Wrote:
Batman55 Wrote:
Anyhow, I'd like to add... some people (even these days) don't get "picked up" and/or diagnosed until 25 or 30. That you hadn't been "picked up" on earlier does not mean you couldn't qualify for an Asperger's diagnosis now.
I don’t think I particularly lack traits that people with AS have; only that the traits I do have may be expressed differently than they are in standard AS. But it’s tricky--I suppose calling myself an aspie cousin is just more convenient than trying to get a diagnosis of AS. I don’t think people can really be put into distinct categories--everyone is different.
This is why I said atypical Asperger's may fit people like you and me pretty well. But atypical AS is still AS... you know what I mean??
04-02-2008, 12:14 PM
quickduck Wrote:
Batman55 Wrote:
quickduck Wrote:
Batman55 Wrote:
Anyhow, I'd like to add... some people (even these days) don't get "picked up" and/or diagnosed until 25 or 30. That you hadn't been "picked up" on earlier does not mean you couldn't qualify for an Asperger's diagnosis now.
I don’t think I particularly lack traits that people with AS have; only that the traits I do have may be expressed differently than they are in standard AS. But it’s tricky--I suppose calling myself an aspie cousin is just more convenient than trying to get a diagnosis of AS. I don’t think people can really be put into distinct categories--everyone is different.
This is why I said atypical Asperger's may fit people like you and me pretty well. But atypical AS is still AS... you know what I mean??
Atypical sounds about right to me...and yes, I suppose it's still is AS.
To what extent does all of this reflect a tendency in society towards taxonomy and categorisation? It may simply be that those with AS are individuals that share particular traits...but it's more a coalescence than a correlation. Or am I wrong? It seems to me that this ties into Foucault's notion of psychiatry as a method of control and division.