Do you have High Functioning Autism?

Question

And what traits associated with autism do you have? I was dx'ed with a form of HFA called Asperger's at age 16; I have a obsessive intrest mathematics and high sensitivity to certian sounds and noises. Also, I spend most of my time away from people, and used to have stimming. What about yall?

Answer 1

Wow. How and where did you get diagnosed. I am 26 female who has a twin sister who has EVERY symptom of Asperger's. It's not like she seems (autistic) and I know you know what I mean - since you probably do not seem that way either.
My nephew is onlly 4 and has been diagnosed as High functioning autistic which astounds me because he is more intelligent than so many children I've ever known. Like unbelievably. He understands and can write two different languages aside from english. it is a little obvious that he is quiet and not always focused, but thats him. As far as Asbergers. I would LOVE to help my twin get diagnosed. Everyone in the famiily feels that there is just something a tiny tiny bit diff goin on with her and I think a real diagnosis would make her feel so much better. Instead, she spends her life wondering why she can't just fit in (as easy) as others do.......

Anyway. Nice to meet you. I have always wanted to talk to someone who actually has been diagnosed with Asbergers'. Very Cool. Sorry I could not answer your question.

Meg - Tucson, AZ

Answer 2

I believe that I have Asperger's, even though I haven't been diagnosed with it. Some of the signs are there. I have difficulty in holding a conversation because words don't come easily to me. And I have a hard time interpreting "subtle hints" that people give to me. Also, I am not good at reading body language.

Diagnosis or not, I believe I really do have Asperger's...and I feel that it has ruined my life in some ways. I often wish I were "normal".

Btw, I just read what the person above me wrote, and I identify with that. Like that person, I was also terrible at math and at sports. I didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was 10 years old.

Answer 3

I dont have a formal diagnosis but I have alot of people in my life that swear I might have something like Aspergers. Certain things lead them in this direction such as bluntness and lack of understanding for social norms, intrest in things that seem obsessive. Lack of appropiate emotional responses. Prefrence for being alone alot of time.
I also self stim ( I just am better at hiding it). When I was a baby my dad had to nail my crib to the wall because I rocked so hard.
Ironically I work in special ed with kids of various disorders/disabilities. Put me in a room filled with kids with Autism and I am content as can be...doesnt bother me in the slightest. In fact I would prefer it....I seem to click with these kids.
I do have ADD and so I wonder sometime if its something more than that.

Answer 4

I was misdiagnosed most of my life with the gamut of psychiatric disorders. Nothing ever fit what I was really experiencing on a day to day basis and even combining several diagnoses left alot of my issues out or brought more symptomatology into the mix than I had. On top of that, the medications enhanced, dulled, or brought on new symptoms that made an accurate assessment impossible. Now everything makes sense. I was professionally diagnosed at 25.

Answer 5

I don't have it but I know someone who has it. He was in very advanced math classes but for some reason got extra time on every test and still did badly. But when called upon in class, he knew every answer and was highly intelligent.

He didn't have many friends. In fact, he had none. And he had a lot of trouble communicating with other people. I felt really sorry for him because everyone would make fun of him and he didn't even understand. He'd just be like, "Oh come on you guys, that's mean!" or something, but he never really seemed to understand or care.

Answer 6

I have a 12 year old son, who is High Functioning Autistic. He enjoys computers,and game cube games. He doesn't have any sensitivity to sounds or noises. He's happy to be by himself. I wish he was more social. He has a speech em pediment which accounts for a lot of that.

Answer 7

I was never diagnosed with it but I did act something like that when I was in grade school (1960s) and hight school (1970s). I was obsessed with zoology, Greek mythology and monster movies in grade school. I loved bugs, snakes, frogs, lizards and turtles. My reading level was higher than most kids, but my math skills and physical coordination were much lower than average. I never could learn how to ride a bicycle or swim. I was terrible at sports and I usually felt very uncomfortable in groups of kids my own age. I never fit it, often I had no friends, but sometimes I would have one or two friends at a time, and they were other kids who didn't fit in. Once I got kicked out of Sunday school because I argued with the teacher about God. I was supposed to write a paper about blind people once, and I wrote it in Braille, making little dots with my pencil. I got teased a lot, to the point that I couldn't take it anymore. I hardly ever completed my school work, most of the time in class I would look out the window or draw pictures. I got to be pretty good at drawing, but they didn't like me in art class either because I wouldn't finish the assignments. Some teacher wrote that I was "mentally retarded." I got an IQ test and I'm not sure what score I made, it was 130 or 150 or something (100 is average, below 70 is mentally retarded), so they couldn't send me to special school. They didn't have a name for what I was, at that time, I guess, there weren't any special programs for somebody like me, or at least my parents or my school didn't know about anything like that. Oh yeah, I was unsually sensitive to certain noises and feelings, I couldn't stand to wear short pants, and certain feelings like having a dull pencil rub against paper. I was also obsessed with the color red for some time, and I would carry a red crayon around in my pocket. I also had a thing about the number 8 for some reason. Another time I was obsessed with grasshoppers. I'm not sure if I had a form of autism (Pervasive Developmental Disorders, that's the official term), but I guess I had some traits. I failed my driving test several times because I got too nervous, until finally my brother took the test under my name and that's how a I got a driver's license. I am still a little weird, but I guess I'm okay, I got dropped out of college two or three times, and finally got a degree in Health Information Management (medical records), now I work for a an agency that helps children and adults with disabilities like autism, mental retardation, ADHD and so on. I have been married for 14 years. I still have a habit of not looking people in the face when I talk to them, but people who know me get used to it, I guess.

Answer 8

The counselor at school wants me to have my son tested for Apergers... Did it make your life easier to find out there was a name for what you are like? Or did it just label you? I guess I am supposed to be answering you, not the other way around.

Answer 9

do i have asperger's sydrome