Just wondering if anyone else on this forum has autism. I have Aspergers and have been much happier since being diagnosed.
I'd say I have this and tend to panic when I'm around places too crowded (I try to avoid) as well with people that look suspicious (so again I just exit). Even more since the recent terrorist attacks around the world. Maybe it's paranoia than panic attacks but I can't really tell, thankfully it doesn't happen too often.The closest thing I have to Autism is Sensory Processing Disorder, which often gets mistaken for Autism.
Quoting this because of a similar situation.I was misdiagnosed with Asperger's when I was younger and I strongly advise those who have been diagnosed with it to do extensive research and don't just take a shrink's word for it. It's very over-diagnosed and while many people do have autism both mild and severe and of varying types, I know I was misdiagnosed because I have zero problems reading social situations, am better with empathy than most people and can read peoples' body language quickly and instinctively. I think the reason this particular shrink thought I had it was because I didn't like him, was kind of a dick and he assumed I didn't understand that I was being a dick even though I let him know directly that I knew he had no clue what he was doing. He mistook bluntness/me not caring for an inability to read social situations, which I'm generally very good at.
Quoting this because of a similar situation.
I already am aware that I am not behaving with people the way most consider as normal.
Back in school, it was difficult foe me to socialize. It is still today, but with a job in public, that helped a lot.
So there was a teacher, who thought that I could have autism, and told a lot of her colleagues (as well as the social worker I had to deal with, due to the fact I was in a adoptive family)
Of course. That assholes of parents I had believed them, and kept finding reasons for me being (different) from others.
It's not a secret that I indeed have major relationship issues with people around me. I tend to react in a way that people consider strange. And I act and do/like/think of things a way anyone around me don't
But does that mean that mean that I have autism? I couldn't know unless a professionnal evaluate me.
Anyway. Those school idiots told I could be autistic, and pretty much everyone believed that could be true, as if that made sense to them.
So, I don't know. I never was seen by a specialist. Sometimes, assumptions are good for destroying self esteem...
I have issues talking to people too. I can't really explain it, but I feel really awkward and uncomfortable when talking to people, and I just can't seem to choose the right words when I wanna talk. That last part also seems to affect me online, it sometimes takes me a while to write posts and stuff because while I know what I want to say, I don't know how to say it.
The only thing I can think of would be Dyslexia, but that might not be correct.-snip-
i also have reading blindness, i don't know the nglish term for it, but for some reason it's not that much of a problem when the text is in english.
that's the word, why the hell did they torture someone like me with such an insane word...The only thing I can think of would be Dyslexia, but that might not be correct.