everytime i try to post this something happens and it gets screwed up! anhow its yet another am i an aspie question. i appear to meet the diagnostic criteria and have many of the traits. i took 3 of the online tests and scored fairly high(geek syndrome test:40, simon baron-cohens test:47, aspie quiz version 7:176 with 4 unanswered questions) however i would like the input of those who know this first hand.i have always been considered very strange. i consider myself an alien actually. i scarceley spoke until i was 8 years old and even then didn'say much even but this was never because of a lack of language skillsor speech impediment, i just didn't want to. i feel very uncomfortable in social situations and have had very few friends in my life. i do want friends but fear having too many as they will take time away from the things that are most important to me and most people expect social interactions more often than i am comfortable with, not to mention that i would have to adhere to and fake an interset in socially typicalbehaviors that i have no care for or understanding of( such as "brush your hair so you'll look pretty for the company"). i do have several ticks, one with my arm and one with my neck, and one which is sniffing. and stims, rocking whn i write and tapping my foot. i am extremley uncomfortable with and avoid eye contact. having several hours of socialization causes me to need over a half days sleep to recouperate because it is so stressful. i am very sensitive to light, particularly if it is from an artificial source and swing between extemes of sensitivity and insensitivity of touch. i also dislike any loud places like restraunts ect. as they give me headaches and anxiety and ticking or beeping noises can literally make me crazy if the noise cannot be silenced.i generally have only one interest at a time and yes i can become immersed in it ,sometimes to the point where i forget to eat and sleep ect. i also often have a delayed emotional response. can't think of anything else at the moment but would appreciate your help as i don't want to simply assume i am aspie and there is no way i'm getting a shrink involved. thanks in advance.
Kai, these certainly seem like Aspie traits.
thanks for your reply. first one...maybe because i titled the post "this is pissing me off" instead of "do you think i'm an aspie"...well i was realy shocked when i started reading about aspergers because it sounded so much like me and i thought it was something only boys had. i don't know though if maybe it could be something else but actually my sons dad is the one who told me "i think you have ass-burgers syndrome or your schizophrenic" i really don't know where he got the schizo thing though because i deffinently don't meet the criteria for that one so initially i thought he was joking. i googled aspergers just to see what he was talking about. the first thing i found was a test and i took it to "disprove" him...er..that didn't work, so i started reading about it and here i am...wondering
Oh no, more and more girls and women are now being diagnosed with autism. It could easily be the case that eventually it will be discovered that males and females are both affected in approximately equal numbers.
True. Apparently, it can go unnoticed fairly often among girls, and I've a personal theory that since brain activity differs slightly between girls and boys, it may affect areas in boys that it doesn't in girls, and vice-versa.
But take into account, it's only my personal, only-now-formed opinion.
Boys might be picked up as having the condition at an earlier age now because I don't think there is as much tolerance of "boyish" traits such as boisterousness, restlessness and noisiness as there used to be, especially in the classroom.
you won't believe where i heard that from. i have a brother who i am not really close to but i saw him a few years ago and apparently his son(who ihave not met) has aspergers . when i asked him what it was he told me it was a learning disorder related to his adhd but only boys can "get" it! :roll: but yes i can deffinently see how it could not be noticed in girls as easily. no one EVER knows whats going on with me and i think that even if a teacher might have suspected something like aspergers or anything else for that matter it was just too easy to dismiss it and focus on the more"boisterous" children who were not so easy to ignore...then when i got older they solved the issues i was having by expelling me!
Because of this preconception that Autism is more common in boys, I don't think medical health people are so likely to look into it further if a girl shows some of the symptoms. They are more likely to ascribe them to something else; maybe borderline personality or being a tomboy.