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Do higher functioning people want to deny lower functioning exist?

Roswell

I think perhaps they do. I would say I'm more on the lower-functioning end of the spectrum. Despite being intelligent enough I can barely make eye contact with people and have no friends where I live, and have never had a proper romantic relationship.

I went to an Autistic social group and definitely felt excluded for having more support needs than the others. I often feel left out on Twitter too. I have 34 followers there, mostly Autistic people, but very rarely do any of them reply to anything I put on. Most of them are more successful than me, have more friends, more of a life, etc. 

It often feels I'm pissing in the wind, getting nowhere. 

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  • I am supposed to have Asperger Syndrome.  A Psychiatrist when I was nine wanted to send me to an Autistic School.  My mother sent me to the State Primary School.  If I had gone to an Autistic School I am sure I would not have fitted in.  Autistic people who can speak quite fluently won't fit in with Non-Verbal Autistics.  I might not be Autistic at all,  I might just have Dyspraxia.   A Canadian Psychologist who tested me in Israel in 1983 for the late Professor Feuerstine Emailed me from Toronto that I have a Non-Verbal learning difficulty on the right side of my brain and thinks I have Dyspraxia and was surprised that I am supposed to have Asperger Syndrome.  I expect that there are other people who have been wrongly diagnosed with a form of Autism but have other disabilities.

  • in reply to NAS69295

    Have you gone trough the normal diagnosis process and had an ADOS-2 Module 4 test ?

  • in reply to JohnS

    No the NHS only know as a Psychiatrist visited us about something else when I was nineteen and said that I have mild Autism.  That was in 1976.  My GP informed me that it is the only record the NHS has about me been Autistic.  Doctor Howlin has since Emailed me to say that I certainly have Asperger Syndrome.

  • in reply to NAS69295

    You have posted how people may have been misdiagnosed, but as you have said yourself, you have not had a formal diagnosis including the ADOS test. I don't think your GP is qualified to say you have Aspergers. He should be referring you to a Psychologist for a formal ASD assessment ??

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