Banned From WP For No Reason-- A Collection of Issues Brought Up By Members

[odeon]

The doc who dx'd me said that the adults who come to her often already know what they are. They will frequently have kids on the spectrum and recognise themselves in their offspring. Very different from the emos reading Wikipedia and self-dx'ing at 16 when the only thing they have is Adolescent Syndrome and too much time on their hands.

[Buzz Killington]

No problem with the self dx'd here, I've met enough Aspies at this point to pretty much know one when I see one, dx'd or not.  A guy from my group had so much anxiety about being misdiagnosed (again) that he was talking about trying to get someone famous like Attwood to dx him, just so that his family would believe that he wasn't making AS up as some sort of get out of social faux pas free card.  We finally steered him to a local doc who was hip to AS and got him a proper diagnosis, but it was really unnecessary as far as I was concerned, this guy just screamed ASPIE! at you if you talked to him for a few minutes.

[renaeden]

get out of social faux pas free card. 

I want one of those cards.

[Al Swearegen]

I think that the big thing about a diagnosis is the ability to be a bit forgiving on yourself and not look at it as a cop out. I have always tried my best but mentally beat myself up on my shortcomings regardless. Now I say "Right you know why and what you suck at x, y, and z. You know the reason you have to work harder on these aspects. You know your success rate is not going to be great. Now if you happen to fail there is a reason why and you don't have to be confused and frustrated at your ineptitude."
Won't stop me doing things that require socialising. Won't involve trying new things that require change. When I stumble and fuck up though, I will be able to say. Cool, you tried and you know why it did not go as well as you would have liked. It is over and it is done and not requiring dwelling over or being confused.

[renaeden]

I didn't know much about autism before I got diagnosed.

[Natalia Evans]

I have never even heard of autism when diagnosed and didn't hear of it until I was 13. I knew of AS the year before but knew nothing of it either.

[renaeden]

I understand that situation given how old you were and all. I was 27 when I was diagnosed. It was a fairly big surprise.

[ῦ]

I've got no problem with the self-dx'd per se...but....

What I do have a problem with is when someone declares themselves AS and then uses it as an excuse to be a complete and utter shithead.

[normal_impaired]

If it's blatantly obvious that someone has AS and they say they "think" they "might" because of what they learned from their research, that's one thing.  It's when someone shows no noticeable Autistic tendencies, yet declares that they absolutely are 100% Autistic beyond any shadow of a doubt yet won't cite the sources that made them feel that way that I have to draw the line.

I'm not saying that all those who are self-diagnosed are idiots, I just don't want to see AS go the same way as ADD did.  I remember years ago when I was first diagnosed with ADD, it was fairly common, but not nearly to the extent it is today.  Today there's so many people claiming to have it (to cover up laziness) that it's hard to take anyone seriously when they claim to have ADD or ADHD.

AS is already starting to reach the point where people just assume that anyone who claims to have it is just trying to hide their laziness or use it as an excuse for being an asshole.  The thought of the one thing that makes the biggest impact on my life being ignored by the general public actually kind of scares me, my diagnosis has always been kind of my ace in the hole when someone (my boss or a cop for example) thinks I'm acting too weird to be sober.

[Celticgoddess]

There is supposedy a high number of people on the spectrum who are both ADD/ADHD and ASD. I was talking to a friend of mine who is a neuropsych and she was saying that there's a good portion  of people who have one dx but miss out on the other because some professionals believe the two can't go hand in hand.

I'm ASD/SID, but my son is ASD/ADHD/TS/SID. I have to treat both his ASD and his ADHD in order to have him well balanced. Sorry.Bit of a tangent there. Your mention of ADHD reminded me of that issue in dx's.

[earthboundmisfit]

I was diagnosed with ADD a few years before I was diagnosed AS, I always assumed it was an incorrect diagnosis.


I would like to see if my sensory issues are SID or a part of my AS.

[Celticgoddess]

I was diagnosed with ADD a few years before I was diagnosed AS, I always assumed it was an incorrect diagnosis.


I would like to see if my sensory issues are SID or a part of my AS.

I think SID is a part of AS. It's just that the SID dx addresses exactly what sensory issues you have and you're usually give a sensory diet to follow in order to help give you more balance.

[odeon]

SID?!?

[Celticgoddess]

Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Google it because there's some really good stuff out there about how your 7 senses can be affected and what you can do to help your body cope and find balance.

[Scrapheap]

Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Google it because there's some really good stuff out there about how your 7 senses can be affected and what you can do to help your body cope and find balance.

SID? is that what happens when you're frying on LSD??