Self-Taught Aspie Offers Advice for Women on the Spectrum
My early years as an adult were fraught with both success and failure. My inability to read people got me into a few harrowing situations, and I withdrew from social life almost totally. My driving c…
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Not Hard to Self-Diagnose
My suspicions piqued, I have always considered myself to be somehow different to the people around me, I assumed most of these to be merely individual traits, as I looked at the screen I saw displaye…
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If It's Asperger's It Would Explain a Lot!
I have since taken almost all the quizzes on line to see if this makes any sense. The first quiz said I was high functioning as. I thought I must have messed it up. I retook the test thinking very ca…
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Online Tests Helped Me Self-Diagnose
I've taken 2 separate online tests that were quite extensive and both came back positive for aspergers. I can't afford a professional diagnoses, but my daughter is going to have one. Since we are so …
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Diagnosis Helpful But Not Vital
Around when I was 13-14, I was interested in researching autism, and came across accounts by autistic adults. I was surprised to discover how much their accounts resembled mine. At first I thought I …
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Aspergers Diagnosis: Get Help Early
speaking to therapists without actual tests. Online tests. Reading books on Aspergers Syndrome. And easily seeing the criteria in my daily life and actions. I worked in Mental Health for 22 years. wh…
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A Lot Like the Movie Adam
Straight away I searched the internet for more information on Aspergers Syndrome. I read stories from other Aspies, and related to most of them. I read articles published by leading authorities on th…
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Accepting Autism
Just summed up all my experiences. My stimming since a very young age. Accelerated language and generally gifted in all areas. Hated kids and sat with the adults while they drank coffee instead of bu…
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Self-Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome
I guess I've "diagnosed" myself, although I'm not qualified to really do that since my degree is in computer programming. My high school teacher, though, was and is a remarkable person who seemed to …
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Searching for an Autism Diagnosis
Began reading articles and books. Spoke to therapists. Some didn't see it- they can be quite delusional. Read Bernard Rimlands book on Autism, along with newsletters from Autism research Institute. T…
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Too Honest
people say I am too honest, have psychiatry problem, behaviour is odd or some people say I behave a bit not normal, I sometimes laugh when I think is funny but never talk. I cannot control emotions l…
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I'm Not Alone
I've gotten a lot from observing You Tube videos (this helped tremendously).Doing other online searches about Aspergers symptoms.Newspaper & magazine articles about autism have really caught my atten…
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I Recognized the Symptoms
I did not sought to diagnose myself, as I said above I accidentally read about Asperger Scyndrome and realized I had it.All my life, I had known that I was psychologically different and I had read ev…
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Like Parent, Like Child
I was a dual major in Special Education and Psychology. I learned about a Asperger's from a paragraph in my Spec. Ed. book and then when I was in Abnormal Psych I needed to buy and learn the DSM-IV (…
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My Self-Diagnosis
Despite professional input & a suggestion I may have Aspergers by a specialist nurse, I never obtained an official professional diagnosis based on the diagnostic criteria. Even supposed professionals…
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My Self Diagnosis
I sought to learn more about Asperger's, and realized that it described my perspective on the world accurately, and explained the behavior of some of my sons, one of whom had had problems in school a…
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