Looks like I am going to be diagnosed with ASPERGERS

This is what happens when you talk of escaping !

I'd go for "High functioning Autism"..sounds better, more Kudos.

'High Functioning Alcoholic' sounds even more fun

I get called that as well as the alternative when I can blast through a sudoku at 4am on my second bottle of brandy

I got close to it but someone moved my Big Mac before I sat down

Sep 4, 2014 -- 4:52PM, Crisp77 wrote:

I got close to it but someone moved my Big Mac before I sat down

Thank god for that, can't waste a Big Mac ... sounds like the plot to the ultimate horror film

thought people with aspergers didnt get sarcasm?

can it stop you drinking beer?
i got diagnosed with fructose intolerance and they add that sh1t to most beers and dont even advertise it!!!!

Been hacking into any US defence mainframe computers lately?

Sep 4, 2014 -- 5:08PM, tips wrote:

thought people with aspergers didnt get sarcasm?

It's difficult yes, but it's like anything else, you learn these things ... it's not like someone shows you how to throw a ball and you forget, you then remember. I have always had trouble with sarcasm, but doesn't mean i will never ever understand it in my whole life. I tend to always take things the way i read them, a lot of times literally for what people say

I got asked about 200 questions yesterday, loved every minute of it, just wish it was a questionnaire that I could fill in

Schalke - I'm seeing my doctor about this very matter tomorrow (not, I hasten to add, the matter of you being Aspergers, but in regard of myself)

lol

I know someone with it,its not something to take lightly good luck and I hope its negative

I very much doubt it will be negative, I have a lot of things that basically ruin my life and Ive never known why, maybe I can get help to understand things easier ...

arse burgers in the UK shirley...

There's been a lot evidence that (some?) people diagnosed with Asperger's perform better at specific tasks (i.e. better than 99.9% of the population), which seems a decent trade off for having idiosyncrasies a little leftfield of everyone else. I know it's true for the computer science / maths fields. It just seems to be the 'price to pay' for having some extraordinary talents, that it gets taken from somewhere else.

ty tips but a positive result is good - would explain a lot of things. I'm not completely fruitbat - only very mild. It's positively advantageous for certain activities..

..just as erse2 says ^^^

Does possibly having Aspergers explain my betting patterns?

ha ha, no, I wouldn't say so (but I'm not an expert yet)

Sep 4, 2014 -- 5:37PM, erse2 wrote:

arse burgers in the UK shirley...There's been a lot evidence that (some?) people diagnosed with Asperger's perform better at specific tasks (i.e. better than 99.9% of the population), which seems a decent trade off for having idiosyncrasies a little leftfield of everyone else. I know it's true for the computer science / maths fields. It just seems to be the 'price to pay' for having some extraordinary talents, that it gets taken from somewhere else.

I can excel at something if I put everything into it which is usually the way I operate, trouble is everything else in my life is usually forgotten about

I bet football a lot but I never watch it, find it very boring - I watch markets ,looking for patterns, esp anomalous ones

Sep 4, 2014 -- 5:41PM, desperatemunter wrote:

I bet football a lot but I never watch it, find it very boring - I watch markets ,looking for patterns, esp anomalous ones

Thats good. You bet according to figures rather than reputations like normal punters do

yes - I prefe watching numbers to watching people

'prefer'

Sep 4, 2014 -- 5:43PM, desperatemunter wrote:

yes - I prefe watching numbers to watching people

I enjoy watching all sports, I have done enough betting over the years though that I have learned that patterns can also come from random events. I mostly bet on the laws of probability coupled with a little research

thats a good approach - as many different aspects as possible should be factored in.

I was diagnosed with it to a mild/moderate level last year.

Mate's daughter has it,hope you are ok..........

I think a lot of men are on the autistic spectrum, just not far enough to get a diagnosis, we are genarally not naturally good at small talk, new situations and have a tendancy to concentrate on some things to the exclusion of others.

Good luck Schalke, I hope the diagnosis helps you make sense of some things.

BTW didnt we have a poster, Irchester who had an Aspergers diagnosis - I recall the forum being admirably supportive of him.

Am I correct that Asperger's sufferers only see the world in terms of black and white, there are no grey areas.

One of my daughters dated a bloke whose son had it.

Young Tommy told everybody he was 11, but his dad said he was 10. I never understood that one. 

The first question he asked everybody he met was 'When's your birthday?' and he never forgot any of them.

My daughter couldn't handle him though, and they split up.

This was after they had been over the woods and they got wet and muddy. 

He applied the logic that the dog was dirty, and the washing machine gets things clean.  The dog was too friendly and went along with it. Tommy was about to switch on the machine when she walked into the kitchen and caught him, as it was 'too quiet' for her liking.

His dad was a nice enough bloke though, an IT expert.

That would not be a good description cmat, if I understand correctly it's a greater ability to see more details in a given subject/situation which can seem a bit like fixation, it tends to revolve around pattern matching.

Usually these enhanced abilities come at the price of being less rounded in another department, like socialising or maintaining relationships. It's definitely not a black and white condition and more like a spectrum of traits and severity IMO.

That's not to say that anyone with Asperger's is a particular way, they just fall outside of the parameters of our what's considered to be 'normal', as in, the way the brain is typically meant to work.

There was a programme on not too long ago on IPlayer about a teenager that could recite Pi to tens of thousands of places, I think he holds the world record for it. He can calculate sums pretty much the same way as depicted in Rain Man... but he doesn't display any of the anti-social traits usually associated. It was considered a bit of a boon because it's a rare occasion when a scientist/psychologist could actually ask the person how they're doing these 'magic' feats.

crisp

Straight to the top of the council's housing waiting list if you have your child diagnosed with it.  Effectively worth a few hundred K that to a lot of people.

?

Get's you a council property almost straight away.  In London, the waiting list could be 20 years otherwise.

By which time your kids will be grown up so you won't get one anyway

really? surprised

be better to not have condition tho

Sep 4, 2014 -- 6:35PM, cdog wrote:

I was diagnosed with it to a mild/moderate level last year.

How do you find things? How are people towards you? Ive been called different, strange, weird for the whole of my life, I thought it was just me, well, it is me but .. do you struggle with thigs, and do you excel in things. Im pretty sure I could learn a language in a couple of months, but it would mean not working, not talking to anyone ... total focus on that, easy.

Pity i couldn't find a line of work that could take advantage of me ...

I've got Asperger's, or rather I display many of the traits associated with the syndrome.  I don't think of it as suffering any sort of illness at all.

To receive any sort of preferential treatment (as mentioned in an earlier post) on the grounds of having Asperger's Syndrome would be unfair in my view.

Sep 5, 2014 -- 12:45AM, Pokermonster wrote:

To receive any sort of preferential treatment (as mentioned in an earlier post) on the grounds of having Asperger's Syndrome would be unfair in my view.

I need a specialist to help me run my life, or in other terms "a girlfriend" ... once I split with my ex I didn't know what to do, still don't and that was 6 years ago. I just want help in understanding social things, trying to have a conversatin with people when I am out is impossible unless they do all the talking, I end up lost in a conversation. But see when it's on a computer it's so much easier.

I have a big problem with collecting things, sometimes it gets out of control. I find it hard to maintain relationships, there has only ever been 1 person who was able to do it but then that ended. Sunlight, can't stand it. Noises, drive me insane, I hear every noise you can hear and sometimes I just want to smash my head of a wall until I can't hear anyone. I usually do the getting out of there thing.

Driving is proving hard, I fail to understand why people don't indicate, or stay in correct lanes. Drive perfect, but people don't ...

I think "treatment" is the wrong word to use, "help" in understanding is what is needed ... thats what I need

Good luck to you mate - although I can't really relate to some of what you've posted, some stuff does strike a chord and as I've been 'accused' of having certain traits many times in the past, it's not something that concerns me too much as MOST of the regular symptoms/characteristics (that I've checked up online) are totally alien to me.

I find it easy enough to get on with people (even the difficult ones) and I've got plenty of friends, but ultimately, they think I have a weird ('unconventional' is the word I prefer to use) outlook on life, which if truth be told, I suppose I do

I don't question myself (I see their lives as humdrum) as I think I'M the normal one, and so if it's of any relevance in diagnosing my 'condition' I'm 49 and I've spent about half my adult life (16 years) with women and half without - the latter is far more preferable to me as I can just about look after myself...albeit ineptly

I am going to have severe health problem if I don't get help ... I stress myself out about things that "normal" people don't worry about.

Last week I got it into my head that I wanted a certain pair of Nike trainers, days upon days searching for these trainers, nothing, so then I started firing e-mails to Nike, they finally got back to me, but for those days my head was just Nike Nike Nike Nike Nike ... nothing else mattered. My diet is abysmal, my exercise is the same ... thing is, if I were to concentrate on diet and fitness I would hardly ever work, then that would become an issue.

Boiling point is going to come, things are just going to explode in my head. Only thing I seem to cope with is betting, I can do that and other things inbwtween, perfect. But it's going to take me another few years to possibly live off it again. Probably the best 2 years of my life was in 2005/06 when I was betting for a living ...

Its good to find out. When you find out in your thirties (or whenever) it explains everything in your life. Why you felt you never fitted in anywhere. Why it was hard to think of things to say and get along with people. Why you hate parties of people talking 'irrelevant' things. Why you would say the wrong thing and have to learn from experience the 'right' thing to say etc.

Once you know you have it you can adapt even more to fit in with the social 'norms'.

please... look at any twit who can concentrate properly and likes hobbies and you've got yourself a few million asperger sufferers. used to be you were shy? now you are mentally deficient?

Sep 5, 2014 -- 1:12PM, frog2 wrote:

Its good to find out. When you find out in your thirties (or whenever) it explains everything in your life. Why you felt you never fitted in anywhere. Why it was hard to think of things to say and get along with people. Why you hate parties of people talking 'irrelevant' things. Why you would say the wrong thing and have to learn from experience the 'right' thing to say etc.Once you know you have it you can adapt even more to fit in with the social 'norms'.

exactly how I am feeling right now, feels like a huge weight off my shoulders

Sep 5, 2014 -- 1:48PM, zorrostrikes wrote:

please... look at any twit who can concentrate properly and likes hobbies and you've got yourself a few million asperger sufferers. used to be you were shy? now you are mentally deficient?

It's a bit more complex than that

Personally, I think I am the normal one, but it's other people who make me feel like I am not the normal one ... the only real problem I have in my life is routine, once I am out of routine my whole life falls apart

Fcuk off!

Come on AP...that's unlike you ?

Not his fault TL, he's just been diagnosed with Tourettes

Aspergers is a behavioural disorder. It is not a psychological disorder.

My gf was told she has aspergers a few years ago.  Like you say, it explained a few things, but doesn't change anything.

The unsympathetic folk on this thread might consider reading The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/may/24/booksforchildrenandteenagers.bookerprize2003

Sep 5, 2014 -- 7:52PM, lybertyne wrote:

My gf was told she has aspergers a few years ago.

1,2,4,3

Sep 5, 2014 -- 4:14PM, Aunty Post wrote:

Fcuk off!

Is this in to reply of one of my posts? Lets me just state that I am going for an autism test to determine what exactly is the case with me, I expect it to be Aspergers, for all I know I may have mild Autism ...

Maybe he was replying to another thread.

Driving is proving hard, I fail to understand why people don't indicate, or stay in correct lanes. Drive perfect, but people don't ...

thats normal to think that.....normally the middle finger as you undertake them releases the anger

People do love a label conferred on them.

Schalke - if they allocated a helper to you, how would that work?

Schalke off topic but are you still touring football stadiums

all long term winners on here will have some aspect of autism

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