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So, do I have aspergers or autism spectrum?

UPDATED at 5:45PM April 2nd


...and I’m thirty three years old and it was never diagnosed!


When I was very young at a single-digit age I overheard my cousin speaking about wearing short tight mini skirts and long tall boots. And when I heard that I went to my father’s house and told him that my cousin was a prostitute, when today I know that she was never a prostitute. If you ask me then why I said that she was a prostitute I would say I didn’t know, - only because she wore a short skirt and tall boots.

Here’s another example on why I think I may be autistic or have Asperger’s syndrome. There’s a sentence where someone utters “I don’t think I’m interested...” where I may drift off and think “I’m going inside...” and then I ask the person “you want to go inside?” Then the person says “we already are inside, what are you talking about?” Then the conversation starts to get awkward, and then they start to ignore me and talk to someone else and think that I’m not paying attention to them or taking them for granted and they drift away from me, just the way I’ve drifted away from what they were saying unknowingly and now I just lost a potential friendship and became the weirdest sorest loser in the world...

The two things that the sentences have in common are “I” and “in” bare that in mind.
SW-User
At that age I think I would have thought similar or had said similar if I knew what that word meant, every kid says strange stuff at a young age. If you really think you have it I would ask a doctor who specialises in it and they will ask you a few questions and decide from there. I have autism, my mum took me to the doctors when I was 13 or 14 and they based it on my obsessions and my habits and my behaviour at school.
SW-User
Wow. @SW-User are yours similar to mine?
SW-User
@SW-User I normally said stuff like people were planning stuff to take over the school and the teachers was trying to put us under spells and plan evil ceremonies 😂 and I believed that too. I used to collect keyrings and have over 100 on my bag at a time and I would walk to school like that and I would start making weird videos when I skipped class filming the school and I went around playing hide and seek and running away from teachers. I had a favourite page on a book which I couldn’t stop reading or looking at , I used to go around telling everyone I was going to run away from home and live in the woods , I was obsessed with Jessie j and lady gaga and I used to run away and hide in the toilets to write in a diary about the fact i hated everyone and everyone hated me every class when we had a teacher I didn’t like. And that’s only a few of the things I did.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
This is not a diagnosis, but if you get a strong result it may be a good idea to consult a psychologist. Labels are just labels, but they can give you a sense of community and an idea of helpful resources and whatnot.

https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/autism-test/
SW-User
Thanks! @CountScrofula
Lostpoet · M
I think you're just insecure not autistic. Autism has become a blanket term anyways; my cousin is autistic and trust me the fact that you even worry about how other people view you kinda means that you are neuro normal.
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Graylight · 51-55, F
Neither of those instances are really markers of any kind of autism. As for Asperger's, it's no longer even recognized in the DSM-5, most important reference for Physicians and psychologists. If I were you, I'd worry a lot less about labels and just become the person you are.
Fernie · F
None of that indicates either one of those things.

 
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