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Sometimes i wonder if i am Autistic

AnneMargaret

Sometimes i read things on here about people's children (or themselves) not communicating till well into their childhood, and struggling academically. But i was the complete opposite. I said my first word at 6months old, walked at 11months, talked fluently before i was 2, could read and write at 3, tell the time and tie laces at 5. I had a reading age of 14years at the age of 9. Got 11 GCSE's. Passed over 30 dance and drama exams.

Please don't think i am showing off. That isn't the point. I just feel confused.

Anne.

  • Oh okay. Thank you both of you.

    I am also terrible at Maths but once got 100% in a Cambridge university english test. But i actually don't enjoy english as much as maths.

    I have to have routine also. I have to get out the house within the first hour or so of getting up and if i don't then i am sometimes quite unwell. My sister being here from Australia has disrupted my routine and confused me somewhat.

    Talking of confusion i wrote a while ago about dissociative behaviour. However today i had something totally different. I was at my support group and i got really confused. I couldn't figure out where i was or how to get anywhere and just sat there very frightened. What's that all about?

     

  • I agree. AnneMargaret, you are not alone in having doubts. I have been diagnosed with having AS, but I do sometimes question things. I think this is probably due to having a late diagnosis (I was diagnosed age 21, I am now 24).  Those diagnosed in childhood are perhaps more confident about their identity.

     I have most of the symptoms of AS. The most obvious being my need for routine, extreme dislike of losing control and dislike of sudden change, particularly if I have invested great hope in something, obsessive interests. I struggle with friendships, although I can make acquaintances fairly easily.  Yet, I come across as a chatty, open, polite and friendly person. My aspergers is not obvious, despite it causing me great problems with anxiety and associated OCD.

    I can't relate to fussy eating, or extreme 'sensory overload'. I can eat any food and am very flexible with taste and texture, and I do not have clothing issues. Yet most people with AS seem to have these issues, which I can't really relate to. I am also bad at maths and jigsaw puzzles, another area that many autistic people excel in. I guess, though, that we are all different, all autistic in our own way. No two people with AS are the same.

  • Tony Attwood says "When you've met one person with an ASD... you've met one person with an ASD!" (though I think he borrowed the saying from someone else).

    The point being that there is no single description of what someone on the spectrum is or should be like.

    This is especially true when looking at higher-functioning autism and Asperger's.

    We are as varied, in all aspects of our selves, as any given group of people.