Aspergers is a type of autism. On the spectrum, it is usually on the higher end. Most people with Aspergers are men, and only a fraction of the diagnosed are women.
I was diagnosed with high-functioning Aspergers syndrome in the 6th grade. I’m in 10th grade now, i’m 15 years old. It has been a struggle to get where I am now. If you would like, you could ask me a question, and i’ll certainly do my best to answer it! Whether it be about my personal experiences, to advice, to asking what my favorite color is, or even explaining further on Aspergers itself, i’ll answer!
It’s a reasonable question, assuming Ambi isn’t asking it as a prelude to a pick-up line. Many people on the autistic spectrum have problems relating to the opposite sex (or their own, for that matter) and have stories to tell about it.
Are you self-diagnosed (as JLRogers asked, several posts above)? If you follow the Aspie message boards (do you?), it seems that a great many posters there are self-diagnosed, and a great many seem desperate to get an official diagnosis.
Do you think there is any particular value or advantage in having an official diagnosis?
If so, how do you deal with the fact that Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t officially exist any more? – The recently-released DSM V officially did away with it.
What diagnosis now exists for those who were diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome under DSM IV? Whatever value that diagnosis had then, is there a new diagnosis for those same people now, and does it have the same usefulness?
Are you aware of Aspie message boards like The Aspie Hangout? (You can google that.)
There has been a general understanding that many (most?) Aspies have a hard time with social relationships, especially with romantic relationships with the opposite data type.
But it also a general understanding that men’s/boy’s problems with women/girls is very different than the kind of problems women/girls have with men/boys.
Purin血 at age 15 might be just at the very beginning of getting into these matters.
Purin血, do you have any experiences/problems/observations/whatever to say about this, from a teenage girl’s point of view?
No, but the doctor who tested my son ten years ago gave me some knowing looks when I talked about my early-life issues, and someone on the behavioural unit back when I was a T.A. flat-out asked if I was autistic. backatcha
First, I think you’re very brave to start this thread. Now, on to my question(s):
You mentioned in your “Introduction” thread that you are home-schooled. Is that because of/related to the Aspberger’s? Did you ever attend public school?
backatcha