ASPERGER SYNDROME - the verdict from the wife!!!!

[okiscopey (Mike)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

well I didn't expect this thread to get that serious?

You never know which way they're going to go, that's what's so good - and sometimes frustrating - about the whole thing!

[Davros (Lauren)]

Houghy, I think you'd be surprised just how many people out there are undiagnosed. I am aspie and i rate off the chart on the tests but it doesn't mean anything different for me. It hasn't changed my life just given me a bit more understanding of who i am. there are some excellent websites around like wrongplanet.com etc. I think someone summed it up well by saying normal is just a setting on the washing machine. I have good days and bad days but i get by independently. It is a lot worse for the young people who don't understand why they are different. I think once you get into your 30's you have generally developed your own coping mechanisms, as long as that house of cards doesn't come tumbling down.
I dropped out of high school because i couldn't handle it but now i have post grad qualifications and i am heading back for a masters. Welcome to the 'your all individuals' club

[Jen]

there is no cure for us

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

My 9 year old son has been classified as having Asperger's Syndrome, he's smart as whip but the AS comes out in him in all sorts of behavioural issues and his lack of skills in terms of socialising with people, mostly with other children. As a result he hates going to school, and so he does poorly there, he also has frequent conflicts with teachers.

Mick it's great to hear that you're still hard at work studying, etc - you're a great role model for people like my son. Thanks for sharing that part of your life with us.

[Miaplacidus (Brian)]

Yeah, I know a few people and am related to others with Asperger's. Many are obsessed with computers. (Haddon's book is good. The classic description is somewhere in something by Bill Bryson where he writes about his encounter with an socially-awkward train-spotter.)

Maybe there is an epidemic (some people blame petrochemical pollution) but I guess in the past there were people like that and they were just labelled weird. Either way, I actually suspect it is the next phase in evolution, i.e. homo aspergers.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Originally Posted by Deeno

No need to feel bad Houghy

"Oh she who must be obeyed" is coordinator for the Autism school on the Central Coast and has diagnosed me with my so-called nerdy tenancies, most of my friends (watch out anyone who is an engineer) and more than once cast me a few knowing glances at Lostock.

But we're in fine company with the likes of Albert Einstein (alegedly didn't speak till age five) Bill Gates (computer geek) and its theorised a couple of the great composers were single minded, antisocial outcasts.

So its not all bad news.

OH yes, Deenos significant other certainly did some interesting analysis, and expoused some interesting theories on the sorts attending Lostock be gum. Im in trouble, as are many of you lot, let me tell you .

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

LOLOLOL
I was going to bring that list along to Astrofest to hand out, but I wasn't up to the amount of flack that would be thrown back at me.

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

LOLOLOL
I was going to bring that list along to Astrofest to hand out, but I wasn't up to the amount of flack that would be thrown back at me.

well the thruth -we cant handle the truth LOL

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Davros

Houghy, I think you'd be surprised just how many people out there are undiagnosed. I am aspie and i rate off the chart on the tests but it doesn't mean anything different for me. It hasn't changed my life just given me a bit more understanding of who i am. there are some excellent websites around like wrongplanet.com etc. I think someone summed it up well by saying normal is just a setting on the washing machine. I have good days and bad days but i get by independently. It is a lot worse for the young people who don't understand why they are different. I think once you get into your 30's you have generally developed your own coping mechanisms, as long as that house of cards doesn't come tumbling down.
I dropped out of high school because i couldn't handle it but now i have post grad qualifications and i am heading back for a masters. Welcome to the 'your all individuals' club

thanks for the info and the knowledge there are others out there

[MrB (Simon)]

I'll put my hand up for possibly having AS or HFA.
Read something about these conditions a few years ago and got a bit of a shock when almost everything I read fitted me.

Back in the early 80's I was labelled 'Hyperactive' and put on sugar free diets etc.
Some of my friends with 'ADD' kids reckon I'd be labelled ADD or ADHD now.
Apparently many AS and HFA people get missdiagnosed as ADD.

[Shawn]

Originally Posted by MrB

I'll put my hand up for possibly having AS or HFA.
Read something about these conditions a few years ago and got a bit of a shock when almost everything I read fitted me.

Back in the early 80's I was labelled 'Hyperactive' and put on sugar free diets etc.
Some of my friends with 'ADD' kids reckon I'd be labelled ADD or ADHD now.
Apparently many AS and HFA people get missdiagnosed as ADD.

So do Quite a few Astronomers...

[xelasnave]

I have only realised certain things about myself as a result of hanging around someone who has difficulties.
I have friends with the subject of this thread I relate welll to them I find.
People can be different so why worry.
alex