Can i tell you about aspergers pdf

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The Advantages of telling an Employer you are Autistic: A few years after my first job, I found myself working in a similar role, at a slightly smaller store. How to tell an Employer you are Autistic: So, as you can see telling a manager you are autistic can make a world of difference when working.

Share My only concern is children like us know to much. I agree they have a lot of empathy. When my marriage broke up I think was the turning point. I show and feel a lot of emotion now, I can take on other peoples pain. But whatever word you use there needs to be a way to describe an unusual lacuna:.

My personal experience is that there are many times in my life I felt nothing while others had some standard deep emotional reaction to say, witnessing a death. I get upset about missing a routine. But if they die, I have no feeling at all except curiosity. My own death scares me because it is unscheduled and out of my control. But to me people are like animals in a zoo, there I said it. Facsinating, annoying, subjects to study and help.

I would help and animal or a person, the difference is not very clear. One of my autist friends was a med doctor who died saving his rescued animals in a fire. He was also seen as a great doctor who fought for his patients.

But he privately told me he saw no great difference between helping people or animals, and now he died for that belief.

But there is certainly a difference. I struggle to get through each day. Just writing this helps me get through my demons. I miss my friend. I realise it was autism drew me to him, a kindred soul.

We obsessed together, and laughed at everything. But he was crazy and I could not live with him eventually. He brought homeless people to sleep in our shared flat, obsessively bringing home strays. I eventually had enough of the surprises. We met at meditation groups, it helped cope with constant anxiety. Nobody knows, nobody knows.

A face totally dissolve with leprosy over a period of months, the bearer standing on a street corner in old Calcutta begging with arms outstretched, nobody stopping. This is a big deal, because my mother, a woman who has little room for accepting the modern age of diagnosis and treatment and prefers to take a more religious route.

I have trouble coping and at times immersing myself in the things that my peers take intrest in, such as school dances. These functions are loud and bright often overwhelming me so much that I am forced to crouch behind the folded lunch tables. This is one of many examples of meltdowns that I am subject to. What has caused this? At school I am seen as emotionless and sometimes to filled with emotion, when I break down in tears. I only feel truly comfortable when in math and science.

For me, english class is one of the worst things to endure. I am aked to find meanings that are not written down, and once had a breakdown when reading a poem. What is it that makes me this way? I understand that for some a hug is an offering of emotional support. But for me that is a hard thing to offer up as I myself feel uncomfortable while trying to give someone a hug because I dislike touching others and try to avoid it as much as possible. This usually just scares others so I keep it to myself.

Even if the person looks shocked by what they heard I usually feel unaffected, does this make me evil? A suprising amount of this is true to me, which makes me wonder… no. I love math and science, but english just confuses me. I also have had many meltdowns throughout my life and they are often triggered by too much noise.

Has anybody else had situations like these? We experience empathy differently and in a way that cuts deeply, but we do not lack it by any means. I have everything here except for knowing too much about one subject. And I am nowhere near organized. I think most men have aspergers syndrom and most of us women in relationships with you suffer a great deal.

Some of you men on the spectrum scale — I think that means borderline-ish, I feel would be able to make a relationship work. Also, because you are aware of your shortfalls and not all of them are a huge problem. However, when you are unable to make physical contact with a person by way of a simple hug then of course that is going to be a problem in any relationship. It is sad but some of you need to never be in a relationship as you will only cause serious emotional pain to the other person as you are incapable of making the other person happy other than entertaining how you yourself feel.

I feel a man with less emotion is going to be more difficult to a woman that say a woman with less or little emotions to a man. Best of luck to you all. Yes and no. Technically, comorbid conditions include Alexithymia, which is an inability to connect words to emotions, it to describe ones emotions or the emotions of another.

Alexithymia usually occurs in part because of deficits within the corpus callosum. Furthermore, one of the guiding theories behind autism is Theory of Mind deficit.

Theory of Mind deficit IS cognitive empathy deficit. This implies a deficit of empathy. Theory of Mind deficit is characterized as an inability to innately understand that others have their own emotional states, intentions, motivations.

Psychopaths lack affective empathy. A psychopath does not. No, i am not Sheldon Cooper. I do think that an AS diagnosis can help at the beginnig making you understand your personal history and character. Even, and the most important to me, is that it throws away your feelings of shame and guiltyness. An AS diagnosis servs me no longer because i am not a cartoon and my life do not takes place in a tv comedy set.

You are intelligent and sensitive people, so you will apologize my english skills. Hope i have make me understand. Such brilliance consistently shows itself in almost every generation, going back to the 18th century.

I would rather have a mediocre mind than be highly intelligent. I am an epistemophilic polemicist, forever lost in my own thoughts. Like my deceased cpousin, I too have epilepsy. With epilepsy and a busy mind, anxiety can cripple me. In my mind every pending social interaction, that could possibly be negative, turns into the worst case scenario.

I had another job lined up, but my mother became septic and almost passed, my aunt died of pneumonia, and my son had a wreck. In most of those unfortunate events, I was a victim.

On more than one occasion my girlfriend has told me that she thinks I have Aspergers. I became very defensive. I read that Einstein may have had Aspergers. That infuriated me to be honest. Today I read that George Orwell most likely had Aspergers as well. This time I decided to do some research instead of becoming angry. I realize that my anger was a way for me to stay in denial: Aspergers could be the root of my issues. I have a couple of questions. Some people do find it beneficial getting a formal diagnosis.

While others are happy to just keep living and seeking ways to cope and relate with those around them. If you are concerned at all or feeling depressed then please talk to your doctor and ask for some alternatives to assist you through these difficulties. Thanks for this test Justine. I got a score of 26, and I think there IS overlap! My sister also HSP, now deceased had a son and two grandchildren with autism, and her other son is probably an aspie; and my late husband definitely had symptoms of Aspergers, so I have always felt familiar with the syndrome.

I am going to share this site with my two adult children who are both HSP. Do you know of any studies that confirm this possible overlap? No I am not aware of any such studies. Interesting concept though.

Please let us know what you find out during your research in to this topic. I feel lost. I have very poor social skills and have struggled with this my entire life. I was looking for an Asperger ranged score but instead I got a Counseling has proved useless since I have no underlying traumas or out of the usual experiences. I wonder if this test is only looking for typical traits of autism and missing exceptions that are less common and out of the norm to test?

I am 59, I have never had close friends but while working I had colleagues who liked what I did. Likewise at church and clubs I ran things, chosing to do rather than interact and again I was liked for this. After a breakdown I was a perfectionist I retired aged 46, life then became difficult. I had to move as I could not afford a mortgage and in my new area nobody understands me and accuse me of being angry when I am upset.

I have no friends. I think I need a diagnosis as it scares me what will happen when eventually I cannot look after myself. I scored 36 on your test. I have twice asked my doctor for a diagnosis but nothing has come of it. Here are some website links that may provide you with some helpful information.

I figure God created me the way I am for a reason and that is quite good enough for me. I function quite well in social situations.

I deal with being awkward and not knowing how to respond or what people are joking about and other issues but I can make small talk for the most part. I must vacuum the same way Every time. Like, I drive to the store or home the same way every time and if I ride with someone and they take a different route it drives me crazy. If someone scratches me with their fingernails I lose my mind.

I cant help it. But due to these things, I am incredibly creative. I love art and music and exceed in both. It makes things difficult sometimes but I love that I am that way. I was never very concerned because my ability to function in social events, though I do dread them so. But other traits I have had made me question. I did, however, score a 36 on this test.

Some day I may see a professional and get a diagnosis but to me, it is not necessary. It would only give me a deeper understanding of why I am the way that I am. I enjoyed this test though and this website is very informative! Thank you! Have had a lot of problems relating to humans these past 35 years. The last one was 15 years ago. Since I have a hard time communicating with people, have never owned a cell phone, use the phone maybe once a week to talk to a family member, have never been in love with past sexual partners etc , I identify as a misanthrope.

Mostly I keep to my bibliomania. I took an empathy test a few minutes ago telling me I scored a 17 out of a possible 80 on an empathy test. I scored 38 on the test and for some reason that made me feel better. I came across an explanation of Aspergers in a novel I was reading and it just sounded so familiar that I googled it and found you.

I always score like but the sounds questions always stump me. I have times where I shut down, I have a hard time wanting to do anything other than be at home avoiding life outside of my house. I always thought my social awkwardness was due to being hard of hearing and not catching all that is going around me, and being introverted because of it.

Hi Kimberly I fully understand how difficult and even draining it can be talking and interacting with others. Some days I prefer to be alone and just have my own space.

But that is not always possible and also not always so healthy. I am so glad you have this quiz here. I showed it to my daughter who we have always suspected she was borderline Aspergers but had no resources to check.

Today, while I was fixing my hair she actually took the quiz and scored a She is now 20 and things have gotten so much more complicated because as a result of a messy custody battle for my son, I had to return to my state and leave her miles behind with roommates who quite possibly have misinterpreted the combination of problems she has with a bad attitude.

She was taking a long time to decide about looking for a job and was really scared that she would not be able to hold a job down and with the added pressure of looking for one things only got worse. She applied for Social Security Disability here in Florida and got denied four times. Do any of our readers have any resources that could be useful or helpful? If so then please leave a reply and let us know.

Hi Justine and thank you for this website. Oddly enough, I never thought to take it before and just happened to stumble upon it on a google search. Now my whole life is actually starting to make sense! Severe anxiety and depression, especially when having to deal with new situations involving interacting with other people, have always been the bane of my existence.

My dreams of meeting Mr. I still feel lonely, but not quite as isolated. What do I mean by that? They question it. How does it work? It makes them smart. They are perceptive, they have a strong intuition.

They can decompose things. For example, often people are having conversations with ulterior motives. If we are particular attracted to the other person we want them to have a favorable perception of us, so we say and do things to encourage this.

We are trying to get the other person to have a particular cognition of us which may or may not be accurate. A person who can see this is not necessarily autistic. Either unaware of partially unaware.

In fact, you are probably very intelligent. One thing to keep in mind is that all human constructs including society, religion and everything else were us attributing purpose to things where there really is no purpose. In fact, you would not have great authors, artists, filmmakers and probably scientists thinking outside of the box if you disallowed this entirely.

My wife keeps commenting she thinks i have some form of autism, i took your test 3 times and scored 42 and 41 twice. The only question i changed were the pretending games as a child i thought i did but on second thoughts, all my games as a child involved exercise and never playing cops and robbers and such. I dont have any friends, i dont have acquaintances. I think the last time i had a friend was when i was 15, im now My wife often tells me i am very blunt and rude to her friends, i just think i speak my mind.

Im not sure i understand the questions about imagination, i consider myself to have a very good imagination and when im walking to pick my children up from school or going to work i often make a story up in my head and play that story over every time i do both until it has a reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Do people with aspergers not have good imaginations? For the emotional aspect. Nor did i have the compunction to go to their funerals my wife told me i should go, my parents expected and asked me to go to all four i went to the first one with my wife and thought it was ridiculous to say things over a dead body who could no longer feel or think.

Now i know that is not normal. I know to think that is not normal. With all that said it seems like im an emotional robot, but i do cry at a film sometimes if im alone or a book. My wife wants me to get tested but i just dont see how having some affirmation of an abbreviated shortcoming will affect my life. Im currently working, my wifes working we have a very good life we go on holidays, drink alcohol a couple of times a year have all the latest gadgets.

I just dont see what a test would do. I seem to have a very good memory for certain things i can tell you the registration number of most of the cars that go to my childrens school, but i cant seem to remember a conversation i have had a week ago, nor what i cooked for tea the previous day. I can remember hazy aspects about my life certainly but i can tell you with absolute clarity my grand mothers telephone number from 30 years ago when i was 7. I know the number and address of every one of the 22 houses my contractor father dragged our family to during my childhood.

If you read all this thank you. The problem with all the known symptoms of most neurological as well mental health difficulties is that they are all similar.

Each label has a set criteria of symptoms which are the same, but in different varying amounts. For example: A child who is abused and neglected will develop relationships problems, is highly anxious and often have behavioural problems. Similarly a child on the spectrum, could present with the same set of behaviours! As backgrounds are not routinely sought at assessment, many children are wrongly diagnosed, and their needs remain unaddressed. It defines a set of behaviours!

With or without the label! I wish you well. Mine seems to be quite specific, regarding sounds and social interactions. In Elementary, I was a mess, then less so in Jr. High and Highschool. My confidence crumbled, etc. I now know a lot of it was due to my increasingly overbearing and selfish wife.

In essence while you may have been supported by your immediate family, I was slammed down over and over. I had thought I did pretty good, then I was told just how socially retarded I was, apparently. But, that only just allows more understanding for yourself and especially others. I am Jessica. I have always struggled with making friends, which made my school years almost terrible. I have had a few really close friends though, but some of them have really really hurt me, which made me retreat farther into my own shell.

I have always been bullied and invisible. Although I am only 17, I feel like having mental disorders has defined my life as terrible and it will never go well. It physically hurt to be in social situations when I was younger. At home, I just say Go Away or something else more derogatory. I would beg God to make me normal but now I am happy to be me. It took a very long time to reach that point.

I hope it gets better with time for you. I used to get bullied when I was younger and still have such a hard time making friends. In time you may find that this curse is also a blessing.

Being a teen is hard to begin with and mental disorders make it even harder. I just wanted you to know that a lot of other people have been in your shoes, and it gets better. Stay strong. Hi I am a 47 year old woman in Scotland currently waiting for an assessment. I am a mum of 6 grown up children. I decided to take the AQ test with my son, who has Aspergers to see how he answered the questions, so I could support him better.

Well I was very shocked to score I then went to the doctor and now awaiting an assessment. I have joined a local group for women on the spectrum and go along one a month. I have also went along to a neuro — diversity clinic where the lady did some tests and said I do show several red flags. The thing is, I have read lots of things about ASD, and witnessed it first hand through my boys. Maybe I have just made some good adjustments in my life and taught myself many coping mechanisms, without realising.

I am just confused about the whole thing I guess. Although looking in my life I do have burnouts quite regularly and always wondered what caused them. One very confused lady. I took this test and got a score of 32, went back and moderated some answers and scored 27 — not in the high range, but trending in that direction.

I am most definitely an introvert and much that I read about autism spectrum disorders sounds a lot like introversion combined with hypersensitivity and some level of OCD. I do hope that focus on autism-spectrum personalities does not reinforce the idea that introversion is some kind of disorder — it is not. I am not broken, just different from the dominant extroverts. Overall I function fairly well in the world but I have chosen a profession that allows me to work largely alone.

I look forward to and really enjoy my time alone, and need that time to restore after too much stress or too much dealing with people. Interesting test, look forward to learning more about the research.

My score is I am one of the few people with ADS not not have any non verbal problems or sensory issues but I had a wide variety of other autistic traits. Then feelings of depersonalization set in for about a year as well and I felt my speech deteriorating.

It become harder and harder to express my thoughts clearly, in order and with a sense of depth. However, the stories of middle aged people on here discovering they could have ASD did give me a bit of hope. So I cannot be sure if I could have a clear diagnosis of ASD or my mental health is overlapping with the symptoms? But I can relate with a lot of the ASD diagnosis criteria and I have scored a 33, which is a fairly consistent score on the other tests I have taken.

I got a score of 29 which according to the score interpretation means I have a borderline indication of an autistic spectrum disorder. I kind of thought I had mild autism or aspergers when doing a course on Austistic Spectrum Disorders through work and finding that I could relate to some of the information we were given about autism and some of my traits seemed a bit Autism like including wandering off into a world of my own when I am supposed to be listening to what the managers at work are saying etc sometimes.

Also, I remember years ago, my sister saying she thought I was slightly autistic or something and to find out I am actually makes things a lot better! It will also be a good thing in my job as a support worker because one of the chaps we will be supporting is autistic and this will make it easier to relate to him.

Hi Justine, It took over 2 hours of reading to get to this page but it was a good 2 hours. Hope you see my reply to Barry. My first test scored About that time I learned to climb out of the crib, and a month later my brother was born, so life got easier for a while. The next blow came when I was 10, alone in the kitchen doing the dishes days worth? A counselor with training in EMDR helped me see the disorder and led me through to healing in sessions.

I say it was the counselor but really it was the Lord who sent me to her. To finally realize that at age 5 I had known that my dad wanted to whup me but that Jesus loved me and I had responded to Him. Today I took the test again, answered it differently and scored By the way, reading through two years of replys, I see you have become a much warmer person. Blessings on your ministry to we who suffer and need forgiveness. Interesting test.

My wife had always suspected that our son could have ASD. She also thought I may be effected as well. I scored a 33 and a 29, so I guess I am borderline.

I actually have read very little about the effects of ASD. I have multiple college degrees and have a good paying job that I love as a Mechanical Enginner. I always have been an introvert to a large degree. I am not sure if that makes it appear that I am borderline ASD or I am just socially inept due to being introverted.

Thanks for listening. I seem to consistently score just under the definitive line on these tests not saying that the tests themselves are a proper diagnosis, but there is usually a line driven or some such saying it is rather likely.

For instance on this particular test, I scored In other words, far enough away from the standard of nuerotypical, but not quite reaching the threshold of near certainty. I want an answer, but am afraid I would be wasting money. Part of me feels like if I approach them directly about this, the results of any diagnosis might be skewed due to the doctor searching intentionally for things that could be seen as ASD, resulting in a misdiagnosis.

Does anyone have advice for any of this? Thanks for posting the test. I have just this week starting considering this for myself. I was watching a TV show with a character with Aspergers and started to see myself as a child in the little boy so I decided to do some research and found your online test. I now see I have struggled with a lot of the Aspergers traits for most of my life.

I hope to take this info and make better choices for myself in order to live a more fulfilling life within my comfort zone. Enough of the cookie-cutter expectations of society. There is enough room in this world for everyone!

Thanks again, Leslie. Yes I agree with you that there is enough space in the world for each of us. Everyone of us with our strengths and challenges. I also like your comment about making better choices. That is something I need to remind myself to work on each and every day.

Hi Justine- I have taken the quiz twice now, with scores of 46 and Each person needs to decide if it will be beneficial to obtain a formal diagnosis or not. As a starting point you could mention your concern about being on the Autism Spectrum with your doctor. Thank you, really interesting doing the test. I have a relative with Aspergers and was very interestd in my score, thank you for such a good test, with straight forward interpretation x p.

I believe my husband also has Aspergers, more severe than our son, but he refuses to get checked out. Any advice?? Nicole, Im here as I think I have this condition. My father can be very selfish also as can I. A few responses come to mind, I engaged with mental health and got a diagnosis only to have my partner of nine years and use my diagnosis to portray me as someone unstable and crazy and not capable of seeing my children.

The second point is of a similar vein people still face discrimination for all kinds of reasons, hence why people avoid issues. Other people could be concerned of losing jobs or opportunities etc.

Another point is some people dont have this condition but they have bad points in other ways ie they cheat they gamble they take drugs etc etc. Im not saying its not hard for you just hope this is of some help.

So, why do you want him diagnosed then? They love you too. Maybe he would be willing to go through some counseling or therapy, if needed, without having to take the test. Would anyone recommend trying to get an appointment with my GP? It truly is a personal decision to pursue a formal diagnosis.

Some people decide to go ahead and others feel that they are coping ok with life and they decide to live without seeking to be diagnosed. From what you have said it does sound like you are finding some areas of life challenging.

If you feel that these areas are causing you difficulty in your everyday life then in may be beneficial for you to seek out the opinion of your family doctor. The main reason I am seeking diagnosis is that I am starting to have difficulties at work, particularly with the noise problem.

You may not be aware of this but employers have a statutory duty to make adjustments for employees with disabilities which ASD is classified as in the UK.

I am hoping to be able to concentrate more on the tasks I am comfortable with i. Based on what you have written about how your quality of life is being affected I would definitely recommend at least speaking to your GP to discuss your concerns. Of course there is no cure, but I think a formal diagnosis will definitely help me to understand my strengths and weaknesses, and make changes where necessary. I found the National Autistic Society website really useful, particularly the page about the process of being diagnosed.

It helped that he had recently had a patient who had also had the sensory issues. I would definitely recommend that you do the same, as it is obviously affecting your quality of life. Umm, Hi! I was reading a book about Autism and Aspergers and I realized that I have a lot of similar characteristics. The fixed routines, the characteristic tics, the social ineptitude, certain obsessions.