I’ve been told by the doctors and nurses that I have a very minor case of aspergers. which I was told is a form of autism.
There is no such thing as “minor” autism. What they mean is “high-functioning autism”. Unless of course they don’t know anything about autism, which is statistically likely anyway.
I was very young when they explained it to me. I do not remember the terminology they used.
I’ve been diagnosed with Asperger’s, but it may actually be high functioning autism because of a speech delay.
High-functioning autism and “Asperger’s” aren’t really distinguishable in a lot of cases, so I don’t even support the term “Asperger’s”. I have some traits of what both are documented to be, traits that the documentation says contradict one diagnosis or the other; but regardless of what I am, I am most certainly autistic.
It’s degree. Yes things they may talk about may be normal but those normal things are not supposed to cause them distress and if they do, then it’s OCD. Everyone gets unwanted thoughts and compulsions but the difference is they can shut those thoughts off and people with OCD can’t. They spend their time obsessing about it while normal people do not. When I see extreme cases of it like I did on the Dr. Phil show, it makes mine look trivial and nothing. I read OCD can come and go and that is the case with me and I found out it can be outgrown or overcome but most don’t overcome it while only few do.
I get just as annoyed when people trivialize OCD acting like it’s a normal thing such as checking up on your sleeping baby and I say to that “If it’s interfearing with your daily life and it’s keeping you from doing other things because you are spending all that time checking on your baby, that is not normal and that is OCD. Get help, that isn’t normal.”
See, that’s not quite it, either. Autistic people have trouble with habituation, so they can’t really “tune out” details, including the things they see and hear and feel. A lot of things in their environment “interfere with their lives”, but this is not even close to the same thing as “OCD”. I have low habituation, but not anxiety. I need to “fix” a lot of stuff just so my brain will stop picking up the pressures and feelings and sounds and preventing me from sleeping or doing other things.
Just because you have compulsions that you need to do in order to move on and do normal things in life doesn’t mean you have OCD. So your definition is a little off the mark.
I wasn’t talking about autism, I was talking about OCD since you brought it up and I am not going to bother defending myself about it because you don’t know me and were not here when you saw my struggles and you never lived with me nor are you my doctor. Would posting my DX papers prove it? I doubt it.
Yeah, yeah. I’m sorry for the poor explanation of what I was trying to say. When you said this:
“Everyone gets unwanted thoughts and compulsions but the difference is they can shut those thoughts off and people with OCD can’t. They spend their time obsessing about it while normal people do not.”
I meant that that is not what OCD is, not alone. Autistic people have that problem too, but for different reasons and resulting in different effects.
I’m sorry I sounded like I did and got you worked up.
Helloooo, hope I’m not too late to the partay! Not Little but definetly proud of being full on Asberger-ic and very slightly autistic! bringmesunshine
Years ago when I was about two I got sick and reacted to a vaccine shot, causing my brain to swell and destroying most of the processing part of my brain , so as far as I can tell its neurological . I was diagnosed , with more of an ongoing diagnoses of high functioning aspies.
I’m also on the autism spectrum and have high functioning autism, though I’ve also been diagnosed as having asperger’s, PDD-NOS, or “mild autism” in the past.
Nice to meet you all! I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in first grade.
You are lucky in that respect, since I, of the older generation did not get the correct diagnosis until just after my 47th Birthday 10 years ago. Anyway, here is a great big group hug, since you are part of the “Proud Tribe of Autism”.:grouphug:
I was talking with my foster mother whom I was fostered by when I was five and a half and whom I haven’t seen since I turned eight. Apparently my foster parents knew I was autistic, and my new adoptive mother was just a moron (no surprise). Wonderful…
Also, apparently, due to three pieces of evidence, I am quite likely to have mild cerebral palsy. I’m 26 now. Nobody tells me anything.
I’m glad bringmesunshine, and your not too late.
Okay, I like that idea! :grouphug:
Im fairly close to being on the spectrum, was always a bit different, but survived a severe traumatic brain injury in 2012, in a blink of an eye my brain was changed forever, lost most of the vision in my right eye, lots of damage to the white matter of the brain and to the frontal lobes that use to do a fair job of controlling my emotions, slowly I am getting better or adjusting, but everything is different, lost a lot of friends. Before I got hurt I was very smart, worked as a sound engineer for a touring concert production, I would work 16-18 hour days, sleep on a bus with 12 other people, a bus that had a toilet, but no one was allowed to poop in it, only pee. We were lucky to get a solid 4 hours of sleep a night.
Now I am on the disabled list fighting for SSID and lawsuits in court, I currently am trying to fill out paperwork and took a break to come here.
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I have been labeled High Functioning for a severe TBI, doctors thought I wouldn’t survive the night, and if I did I would need 24/7 care for the rest of my life, they might have been partially right on the last part, but I have managed to live alone since my accident, though I have had a lot of help.
And I apologize if anyone takes offense with me saying that I can relate to the autism spectrum because of my brain damage, it is not my intention to insult anyone, its just my way of saying I can relate in ways that I could not before I was brain injured, though I had a girlfriend accuse me of having Aspergers, she was kind of a rotten person really.
Besides Asperger’s Syndrome, I definitely also have Cerebral Palsy. I am definitely markedly physically impaired as to my mobility after going through middle-age physiological burnout and having to be prescribed AFO leg braces and forearm crutches.
i have the same and im also ADHD but im more ADD im not really hyper
Unsure Aspergr, but very sure ADHD…