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Asperger's Syndrome(or relating to an alien mindset)

lacey k said:
I got a 13 haha I dont know why i even took the test but i like tests n shit like that. I must b very bored to b in this thread lol. It is somethin i didnt really kno much about so I am reading alot tonite so thank you new for showing me something new today.
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Least I could do.:)
 
scored 11, but i don't know what that means.


New, i had great social difficulties as a wee lad, and as a result most of my childhood i don't remember. Luckily i grew out of it.
 
i got a 29, pretty much because i dislike new social situations.

as for new's original question... often times when i meet a group of new people, i am rather reserved and talk mostly to the people that i already know. then if someone i know is talking to someone new, i may join in the conversation. or if someone initiates conversation with me, i will talk with them. but i have noticed that i give off the wrong attitude to people when i act like this. so lately i have been trying to make a concious effort to be more social in new situations. i just tell myself that this is what i need to do for X amount of time, then i can talk to the people i want to.
 
I was in a relationship with someone with Asperger Syndrome for 6 years. I never knew he had it until after I broke up with him and saw something on the Science channel that talked about ocytocin deficiency and how it relates to people with Asperger Syndrome. After learning about the symptoms of it I realized that he fit the bill perfectly.

I always wondered what was wrong with him, but never thought he could be autistic because he is highly intelligent. I'm pretty nonjudgmental, so I was able to deal with his mild oddities deficiencies until very recently.
 
daily_amphetamine said:
I always wondered what was wrong with him, but never thought he could be autistic because he is highly intelligent. I'm pretty nonjudgmental, so I was able to deal with his mild oddities deficiencies until very recently.
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^Autism and Aspergers are two different things. They are both pervasive developmental disorders and they're the most similar out of all of the PDD's in signs and likely causes, but they're not the same thing. :)

I have a good friend with Aspergers. I'm a patient, empathetic and forgiving person so I've never had a problem accepting his sometimes strange behaviours but many of my friends and even family have had issues with him over the years.

I didn't realise he had this exact condition until a year ago, and it explained so much for everyone who knows and cares about him. It really felt like he had unlocked part of his existence.
 
Also an 11. I didn't expect to test as Aspergers - if you google "highly sensitive person" or "empath" ... that be me. It's got its own share of problematic stuff. People think I am more extroverted than I am much of the time.
 
ebola? said:
This means that you're one of the assholes with whom I went to high school. ;)

ebola
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Perhaps if you had made the effort to get to know these "assholes" or establish common ground with those who differ temperamentally and behaviorally from you, your viewpoint would not be so narrow and contentious. ;)
 
scored 32 on that test thing-so i'm borderline asperger. this doesn't shock me as people always labbel me as strange or wierd and i have massive difficulty having sexual relationships as i dont know how to begin them properly and it feels so awkward. i have quite a few friends tha appreciate my weirdness and i get away with being strange at work.

i can function well enough and i dont experience great problems comunicating it just means you have to think a lot harder about other people using logic. if someone has been in a situation that would make you feel a certain way you have to assume that they will most likely feel that way too because you cant tell from their expressions very well at all. the problems faced can be overcome by thinking hard and using previous experience-just notice patterns how they were before and the same is possibly true now-like the weather forecast. experience is your saviour
 
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i got a 33 and i think i got a higher score last time i took this.

i feel like i meet the criteria for some degree of asperger's, but i'm really cynical about how psychological diagnoses seem to go in and out of fashion. it makes me feel skeptical about the whole enterprise, though i understand that psychology is still evolving as a discipline.

the encyclopedia dramatica entry is pretty funny.
 
34.

I have figured I had this since I read about Brahm Cohen (Bt dude), as my personality seemed identical.

Never bothered to discuss it with a doctor to verify this, as I saw no benifit from being diagnosed.
 
Looks like my predictions of hypocondriasis are coming to fruition. ;)
I don't find the Asperger's diagnosis particularly useful, as it hardly points to a course of treatment that makes people feel or function better.
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Potential confounds for this test:
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder

Existential, teen angst (or similar, carried into adulthood).

ebola
 
But, you see, the disorders you mentioned may not differ by loose expression of outcome, but by detailed source of origin. While SAD begins by having an elevated fear response in social situations, and schizotypal PD's source is most likely learned behaviors that are unusual...Asperger's Syndrome is defined by its constriction apparent in most endeavors. The differences are slight, but there.
 
I will try to speak to this primarily from my education in psychology.
I argue that we don't yet have a firm enough idea of the origins of psychopathology to include such things in how we define mental disorders. To further complicate matters, I think that something is wrong with our current typology of them; because comorbidity is the norm, not the exception, the set of disorders that we've come up with likely fails to map well onto how symptoms 'naturally' cluster in individuals.

So, the test here focuses on 'unease' in social situations...and to a lesser extent their incomprehensibility. I find it likely that those with social anxiety find social situations difficult mostly because of an immediate fear-response and/or fear of negative social appraisal and/or failure to perform. Schizotypals, on the other hand, are social-averse mainly because they find little reward in social interaction. For autism-spectrum people, however, social situations are daunting due to their incomprehensibility. Yet the autism-spectrum inventory treats these as mostly the same.

So it looks like we mostly agree anyway. ;)

ebola
 
I got a 35. What does that mean? ALso, I did not like this test. Most tests like this have a "neutral" or something similar. There were a few where I sort fo flipped a mental cion between slightly agree and slightly disagree because I was not sure which one fit best.
 
This is interesting. Most forms of autism involve some sort of learning disability, but asperger's does not. It seems to deal only with deficiencies in social interaction.

I am not sure what the point is of even having a name for this syndrome. Some people are bad at social interaction. So what? Some people are bad at writing, or math, or music, or sports.

After reading some more on the subject in addition to what I have already read and know, I would be fairly confident in saying that I have this "syndrome."

I just don't see what difference that makes. Supposing I do have it, then what? It isn't going to change the way I do anything. There's no "cure."

Maybe I am missing something here. If someone can shed some light on this issue I would appreciate it.
 
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