Asperger Syndrome
 

Does anyone knows about this condition?

I'm just curious, and sorry if I brough it up.

That is all.

I'm diagnosed with it. It's related to autism, and it's mainly characterized by social awkwardness, narrow but intense interests and peculiarities in speech and language... all of which describe me in some way.

Thanks for the info, Voxxyn.

The reason I ask that question is because that my parents thinks I might have this condition.

But, I want to make sure whether I do or not.

Again, thank you.

My younger brother has this condition, which sadly went undiagnosed until well into adulthood. He's been labeled "retarded", "ADD/HDS", you name it. It's just take that long, I guess, for research to catch up and figure out that this is NOT a form of mental retardation, but my brother basically fell through the system. Everything you said fits him to a T, though I know that each individual is different. One of his speech peculiarities is that for much of his life, he refused(or actually couldn't) refer to certain objects or people by their names, so he made up names for them. He is virtually incapable of writing with a pen or pencil, yet he can type accurately.

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You should certainly visit The Asperger Disorder Homepage. I've been in contact with many people with Asperger's online, as I am asexual and asexuality is rather common among people with Asperger's; therefore we have many in our community. So in general people in the asexual community are encouraged to learn about Asperger's. :terrsmile:

Please remember that while it's good to learn about the disorder on your own, it's never wise to self-diagnose. Find a someone qualified to evaluate you.

I understand this probably might not be a "valid example" but on the show Boston Legal, a character named Jerry Espensen suffers from this disease and alot of the symptoms you mentioned match how he acted in the show.

It looks like alot of shaking, emotional distress, fumbling kind of thing, of course it's just something I saw and thought might be helpful to share.

Asperger's isn't a disease, at least not to me. It's a set of complex mental symptoms that can have both positive and negative effects.

I was diagnosed with it in my junior year of HS. Ever since I was younger, I was using bigger words than an eight-year old should know, developed a massive interest in music, movies and writing, and still have (to a degree) an annoying tendency to focus in on one thing and beat it into people's heads.

But other than that, I'm fine.

Thanks for the website and your thoughts, Sparky. I appreciate it. :D

I Have A Book About AS. My Brother has.

I have Asperger. I learned to read before I was four (normally Finnish kids learn to read at the age of six or seven). I was the only one in my class who could read. I don't think of it as a problem except I have been called a retard and the way I speak has been mocked.

Same here. I really hate it when people think that people say that if you have Asperger's, that mean you're crazy or stupid.

Hey! That's Not Nice!

I didn't say it, just a bunch of immature people. It makes me feel bad.

Too Bad.

I, surprisingly enough, have it too. I didn't know lots of people in this board have it. The only thing is is that I don't like admitting that there's something wrong with me.

there's nothing wrong with you, buddy :D

it is truly surprising that so many people in this community have it...
it's really interesting to learn about as I have never heard of it until now

My brother, T-Rexotron on this board, has it, too. I didn't knew a lot of people here have it, though.

I Don't.

My second-cousin has it. I don't know much about it, but I believe it's a type of (or at least related to) autism. My cousin is often quiet and shy and usually prefers to be alone. She also doesn't talk a lot and will almost never make eye contact.

oh my goodness, really? D:

I was diagnosed with asperger syndrome 5 years ago, and noone ever told me this. I have never been interested in love, relationships or boys and girls et.c... I've always thought I was crazy and imagined that I was maybe asexual D; but I guess it really makes sense now

I might've read it wrong, but...So what if I like astronomy and history? D:

I didn't know that some people catching on to speaking faster than others was a bad thing...

I have Asperger's as well even though I try to keep it to myself sometimes. I'm actually kinda glad and a bit surprised as well to see a topic here about this.

I used to keep it to myself as when I was 12 they locked me up in a mental institution because they didn't know what was wrong with me. When I was 17 I got the diagnosis and I was sort of depressed instead of relieved about it, but now that I'm 21 I'm actually quite proud of being mentally unstable XD

I was sort of warned by my psychiatrists and stuff to never searh about Asperger online or mention that I have it, because appearantly it gives a lot of misinformation and gets ridiculed a lot? I had honestly never heard the term before I was diagnsoed, but I did as they said and still to this day I have never attended a site about asperger... About telling others? Well, I could care less what others think of me

There's a kid in my year at school, named Guy, who has it. I don't like him too much, not because of his condition, he's just a horrible person. He kicks you, and he once called my friend an anorexic cow because she wasn't hungry at lunch time one day. I mean, I know that he has Asperger's and all, but what makes it worse, is when you tell him off, he blames it all on his condition, and then starts to make you feel bad about it for yelling at him when it's not his fault. I really don't like him.

He has a very... feminine voice. It's broken, but has this sort of girly twang to it, for lack of a better description. I don't whether that counts as having problems with speech.

He frightens me actually. The girl he called an anorexic cow hangs with me and the rest of the "Emo Kids", and this girl (Rachel) was his friend back in Primary (Elementary) School, and he clings onto her alot, and now me and my other friend, Leah. Thing is, because we don't like him, he thinks that to get us to like, him he needs to be emo. He's started ranting about how he wants to die, he's painted his nails black, and he's even tried slitting his wrists, with the blad from a penicl sharpener. He had a ring of scratches around his wrist after a history lesson one day.

But we don't do that sort of thing, and we find it both annoying and worrying. Sometimes I worry that I've said something wrong and then he, you know, does something worse the scratching his arm with a blunt sharpener...

Vampyre, it's just a very simple and common condition known as... attention whoring

Asperger patients can, indeed, find humor in cruel (doesn't mean they don't UNDERSTAND that it's cruel, but for some that CAN be the case) things, like calling people names. I know, because, I am a very sadistic person (humor-wise). That he blames it on his condition proves that he does INDEED understand what he says and does, he's just grasping for attention. If it was really his Asperger showing its true colors, he wouldn't be using it as an apology

Don't ignore him though, tell him that what he's doing simply isn't something YOU guys are doing and that it's completely different things. That your style is nothing BUT a style, not a disease (like cutting yourself is)

Everything you need to know on Asperger Syndrome is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_Syndrome

Rule number 1, most things about asperger online is bogus. ::)
never trust sites like wikipedia, there's nothing but misinformation