Autism

>>8472111
I have undiagnosed Asperger's
WIN

>>8472142
It's called being an INTP

>>8472146
Thank you. I no longer have to consider suicide

>>8472142
>undiagnosed
No you don't. I bet you didn't organize your Hot Wheels™ cars this morning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder

just give up already

>>8472156
>INTP
>not considering suicide
pick one

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>tfw schizoaffective

>>8472162
Thanks. This is really comforting. I've just got to practice my walk so that'll lessen the suspicion from my teachers

>>8472167
Then explain my sensory sensitivity, ADHD, OCD, poor motor skills, slurred speech, problems with eye contact, repetitive movements such a hand flapping and rocking, obsessive thinking, asexuality, synesthesia, advanced vocabulary and math skills, emotional oversensitivity, and my official autism diagnosis?
Oh wait, you can't because you either think autism doesn't exist or is caused by vaccines. It's 2016 for crying out loud. Autism isn't always about social skills. Have you even watched Temple Grandin yet? Everyone's seen that movie including my grandmother. She wanted to watch the movie because she wanted to know more about autism.

>>8472188
Yup you've got autism>triggered

>>8472188
>2016
The year doesn't depend on autism

>>8472188
no I mean I have schizoid pd and it's cooler

>>8472200
>>8472204
>>8472211
This is why I don't have friends. ^_^ (stupid fucking anime face)

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Who else legitimate /sociopath/ here?

>>8472223
Not a legitimate diagnosis in the DSM-V

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>>8472223
From my full psych evaluation.

>>8472232
>Hunter

>>8472188
I diagnosed my friend with autism. Didn't tell him or anyone else. Then one day he breaks out with "...I have severe autism...."
He makes strong eye contact
Socialises well
Talks a lot - have to tell him to shut up frequently
Visits concerts whenever he has the chance to
Has had intimate relationships
Doesn't excel at specific things, albeit he likes to think that he does
So...sounds good.
But then...
Flaps his arms, sometimes hands or even his torso when he's excited
Walks with a gait - followed him to our school one day and noticed it's a fast paced horse-like gait
Usually acts inappropriately in social situations but doesn't realise - requires thorough explaining from me as to why things aren't accepted etc
Prefers to talk to people older than he - I'm the anomaly
Attention problems - faked a suicide
Doesn't read people well - can't tell when people are pissed off, sad, angry or happy with him

Would you call this sever autism? I concluded that he was somewhere on the the lower end of the spectrum. He told me that his autism is severe, which I'm guessing he means on the high end of the spectrum. Maybe he included the 'severe' for attention and sympathy. What do you think?

>>8472232
Australia?

>>8472255
America.

>>8472223
I'm not but i wish i was
>tfw want to kill people but my limbic system can't stop giving me shit about it.

Nice trips

>>8472256
It's because the text was flipped upside down.

>>8472232
What do you think about the report, do you think you have bipolar disorder or some form of personality disorder?

>>8472248
He doesn't have severe autism. At least, not what would be considered a diagnosis of severe autism. I know people with severe autism, and trust me, it's far far worse than that.

>>8472276
Yup, thanks for the confirmation.

>>8472269
Fuck

>>8472248
I am you. And my friend has legit diagnosis for aspergers

>>8472271
Probably some minor personality disorder. I kinda like it that way. I don't think I have bipolar (at least in the conventional sense, and if I do its mild). He got that from my acting impulsively a few times. If I stop and think it's nothing.

I kinda liked getting the eval. I went in to get an addy script (also mild diagnosis) and came out with some interesting extra answers. I'd recommend it. It's neat to have a professional confirm suspicions if nothing else.

>>8472291
Haha ayy I have ADHD, and was told at one point that I might have an antisocial personality disorder. I thought it was bullshit at the time and even more so now because I feel like I've outgrown a lot of the shit they "flagged" me for.

Why so many damaged souls?
It wasn't always that way.

>>8472111
Medically diagnosed Asperger's syndrome, INTP and with an IQ of 145.

>>8472749
Asperger's syndrome isn't a diagnose, not anymore anyways.

>>8472111
I was diagnosed when I was younger. Made great marks throughout school but had extremely poor social development. Often suspended for getting physical with other students because I had perceived some sleight against me but felt I had no other way to seek recourse in that moment.

>>8472111

>that pic
>those trips

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>>8472173
You think you have it bad?

I look at a blank canvas and I don't see anything. I never look at the moon, because, why bother? The sun? Looks like nothing. Fire. All I see is darknes

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>>8473291
Dude

True intelligence comes from knowing and understanding yourself in order to control your reality in anyway you see fit.
People who cant control their thoughts/emotions/interactions lack mental discipline and control. Sure you MIGHT have a "high IQ" but without being able to execute it properly you're never gonna be as effective as a non-autistic "high IQ"

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>>8472111
This thread made me realise how infested with brainlets this board really is. Autism is just another excuse.

>>8473392
>only realizing that now
No anon. You are the brainlets.

>>8472111
>tfw to smart to have autism

>>8472173
What's it like?

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manic-depressive here
>tfw medication doesn't do shit

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>>8472111
Those trips

>>8473628
Impressive, very nice. mmm

Actually
Uniting
The
Idiots
Shitting
Maggots

>Guyses, I'm totaly smart its just that I have the Autism so that's why I suck at school XD

>>8472111
I sometimes talk to myself in public or at work.
I pretty much stopped caring what people think of me so it's ok

>>8473533
Look at the Wikipedia page. Manic episodes where I just want tear into the fabric of existence and depressive episodes where I feel almost not alive.

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>>8472111
>MFW anime makes mental disorders look weird but functional and interesting but it's all lies

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>>8472111
I keep doubting whether I'm aspie because I can recognize faces. I have literally every other symptom though.

>>8475244
An
Undeniably
Treacherous
Independent
Secret
Military

Im having a hard time with calculus 1.

>>8472477
yes it was, they would just die sooner and more often

>>8472111
autist here, INFP, also have generalized anxiety disorder
my pain lately has been people, I have a strong suspicion that as much as I love the human race in principle, I just don't like people in practice
my new job has started to help that though, and I had a realization the other day about some people I interact with on-line that was nice

>>8475402

>recognize faces

I don't think the inability to recognize faces is a symptom of autism anon. You're in denial.

>>8475476
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2004/02/autism-impairs-face-recognition

I don't remember having to train myself or get trained to recognize faces.

If autism is a singular syndrome, then everyone with it should have all the symptoms.

>>8475485
that's usually not how mental disorders work

Might be un-diagnosed but

>Have ADD, OCD, general anxiety disorder
>Lack any form of oculo-manual coordination, and any form of motor skill ; have trouble walking down things
>I have repetitive activities and a routine which I accomplish everyday. If disturbed, I feel immense anxiety
>I am awkward in all social situations, have near to no friends, cannot make eye contact, am easily surprised
>I talk either too slow, too fast or with a too low volume or too high, never correctly
>I cannot read people's faces or eyes.
>I am probably asexual and am emotionally oversensitive
>I stimulate the palm of my hand by piercing it with pointy objects, and used to hit my forehead on pointy things when I was younger
>I compulsively clap my hands when excited

Prove to me I am not autistic.

>>8475555

Impressive digits.

>>8475528

>I also walk on my toes often, and cannot run without doing that.

>>8475382
I know how to use Wikipedia, I asked you because I wanted to hear it from the horse's mouth. Schizoaffective just sounds like severe bipolarism.

>>8475528
Sounds more like anxiety disorder than autism. Autists are in general not particularly anxious.

>>8473385
I disagree. Autism is a feature that let's you sort out emotional inputs which could distract you from whatever you were doing. If you are equally smart as an autist but get distracted by social signals all the time you won't get as much done as an autist who could focus fully on whatever he's doing.

>>8475558

Anxiety is comorbid with autism, and doesn't explain all the symptoms.

>>8472146
>intp
>implying shitty psychology theory can generalize people's personality

>>8475564
Anxiety is comorbid with very many kinds of mental issues. Anxiety when disturbed could be the OCD.

>>8475576

How does that explain the other symptoms? I am very easily surprised, even when I'm not anxious. If my parents speak to me and I hadn't anticipated that, I will be scared.

I also dislike certain kind of clothing, like jeans, tags, wool, and things that are too tight. This might not seem much, but most of the symptoms I posted cannot be only explained by anxiety or OCD. Even before I had generalized anxiety (when I was a kid), I had trouble making friends, and socializing. I remember I used to throw excessive tantrums during which I hit myself and wanted to destroy my room when I was a child, because I lacked any friends. When I'm frustrated, even today, I still have similar ''tantrums'', but I mostly just hit myself.

Maybe I don't have autism, but, to me, it just seems like a more likely explanation than having generalized anxiety disorder + 10 other mental issues.

>>8475585
for fucks sake just meditate 10 minutes a day and actually WORK on lowering your anxiety i.e getting out of your comfort zone. If you blame a "mental disorder" you are never gonna better yourself

Anyone on this thread ever hear about neuroplasticity...?

>>8475565
Brainlets that don't understand confirmation bias

>>8472204
The toothbrush doesn't depend on the coal miner. <<The fuck you talking about assburger?>>

>>8472232
Holy fuck you guys. It's the devil

>>8472200
WEW

I laughed

>>8472248

>Claims to have severe autism
>Able to talk and doesn't grunt like a fucking orc

Your friend's a special snowflake

>>8472173

Schizoid personality disorder here. Makes my Aspergers a bit easier to cope with.

>wake up
>jump out of bed as fast as possible
>run down the stairs into the kitchen and shout/say something retarded like, 'Commander on deck!'


every fucking day, I love this shit

>>8472146
>tfw INTJ

I have Asperger's but nothing I am interested in will "get me ahead." I hated school so didn't go to university but study what interests me so if I wanted a career in the sciences I am fugged. Guess it's back to wasting my life playing DotA 2.

>>8475837

fucking kekked, srs, people with severe autism can't even communicate it's insanity, literally

>>8475913

>DotA 2

ekstreme autism detected

>>8475935

Just kill me.

>>8475944

know I like when people suffer

>>8475861

>>8475528
>>8475530
>tfw I'm an INFP.

>>8475607
absolutely absolutely he has to

>>8475607

I don't think neuroplasticity ''cures'' autism, or how meditation affects reliably anxiety. ''Getting out of your comfort zone'' doesn't work, I just want to vomit when I do that.

And I already tried doing meditation, and I don't believe it worked.

>>8475935
A guy I know with dota 2 slays pussy the real loser here is the rts/grand strat player me

Got diagnosed when I was a kid. There are basically no benefits to being an autist. Some people can get very good at a specific task, but the inability to socialize or function in a working environment cancels out the benefits. I'd take a cure in a heartbeat.

>>8475932

Basically mental retardation mixed with Schizophrenia. This is why I'm heavily against lumping up people with Atypical autism, HFA, and Aspergers under the same disorder as those people.

I think that the world is just a dream and that I'm an incomplete god that has yet to master the art to control everything.

>>8476059
Because there exists no "comfort zone" if there is no sense to measure with in social situations.

>>8476352
Those diagnoses are mostly excuses to mentally milk the subjects with surveillance. And when they understand that they stop doing their best (well obviously).

>>8476478

Also excuses to milk their patients salaries through selling them shit like Ritalin in order to make the wallets of (((them))) a bit bigger :^)

>>8476478
And the stopping to do their best is interpreted as the sickness striking when it really is the consequence of the surveillance.

>>8476531
Yes and anyone pointing it out is a "quacksalver" or "conspiracy theorist".

>>8476361

I don't understand what you mean. You mean that because I lack understanding of social situations, I do not have any comfort zones as there's no baseline of social acceptability to compare it to?

I just meant that I don't get how getting out of my comfort zone would solve my motor problems, my emotional over-sensitivity (or extreme lack of at times), the fact I enjoy stimming, etc. Maybe it could do something for anxiety, but then again, if I ever do something I haven't routinely done before, I feel like I want to vomit.

My therapist can't decide if I'm Autistic or have "ASPD", which I didn't realize was a thing until recently.

>>8472835
In the UK it is.

>>8472111
autism is not real

>>8478688

Depends entirely on what type of autism, severe autism is definitely real. Aspergers and HFA are just poor social skills, and social skills can be learned, unless you're a complete NEET beta.

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>>8472111

>tfw didn't get diagnosed until I was 24

>>8479677

Am I diagnostic material?
>>8475528
>>8475530

>>8479681

Well I was diagnosed after two long interviews, an assessment that was filmed where they ask me to do tasks like repeating patterns I am shown and narrate a children's story that has no words only pictures. My mother was also interviewed for 3 hours so I am not 100% sure on what ticked the boxes since as I was not there when my mother was interviewed, however looking at what you described I will say if I am similar.

>Have ADD, OCD, general anxiety disorder
I am already diagnosed with OCD which is on the more severe end.

>Lack any form of oculo-manual coordination, and any form of motor skill ; have trouble walking down things
I do not have this.

>I have repetitive activities and a routine which I accomplish everyday. If disturbed, I feel immense anxiety
I definetely experience this, a slight change (minutes) in when I get my dinner for example aggravates me and things always have to be done at the same time or I feel a sense of dread.

>I am awkward in all social situations, have near to no friends, cannot make eye contact, am easily surprised
I have this but I have learnt a bit over my life to maintain eye contact by forcing myself to do it, still less so than normal.

>I talk either too slow, too fast or with a too low volume or too high, never correctly
I usually talk quietly and people say I murmur.

>I cannot read people's faces or eyes.
I can tell anger and happiness but more nuanced emotions are much harder.

>I am probably asexual and am emotionally oversensitive
Same for me.

>I stimulate the palm of my hand by piercing it with pointy objects, and used to hit my forehead on pointy things when I was younger
I don't do anything like this but it is a symptom of autism to self-harm to some degree.

>I compulsively clap my hands when excited
I don't do this.

>I also walk on my toes often, and cannot run without doing that.
I don't do this but my mother told me that she was asked if I walked strangely which I do so that must be a sign of autism.

>>8475838

How can you have aspergers and schizoid personality disorder?

>>8477190

No it's not, as of DSM V it is no longer diagnosed, you are just diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

>>8479701

Schizoid personality is basically not to care about social situations or having very limited emotional capabilities. Aspergers is social awkwardness. They are very compatible.

>>8479722

Not all autists want to have friends though or even want to socialize. Portraying them as poor people who long to have friends but can't is wrong.

Any fellow autists on /sci/ with synesthesia? I've read that it appears at a higher rate in autistic people than in the population at large, and it makes sense given that our sensory wiring is just different to begin with.

I felt like this would be the place to ask, given that I'm statistically more likely to find you among autistic people and given that it's one way autism can actually be winning the genetic lottery.

On a similar note, any of you guys hypersensitive to fucking everything?

>>8472111
>IQ is supposed to be somewhere around 200
>parents were average as fuck, as with the rest of my family, didn't understand what that really meant, and how smart I really was
>from middle of nowhere Canada, didn't get the opportunity to go to one of those "Genius" schools that cater to people with genius level intellect
>basically stuck in the woods with a bunch of backwards rednecks, and no opportunity to expand my knowledge, outside of kids reference books, which are nowhere near enough information
>didn't have internet for years so was basically stuck with nothing
>could do literally nothing, since parents were oblivious as fuck to how smart I was, and what being that smart meant, despite being well off, so I just sat there with nothing that actually satisfied my intellect, leaving me constantly feeling empty in life, wasting all those years of high brain plasticity on what was really just me brooding in the fact that I can't do anything about it
>literally was too smart for friends
>went through high school that only offered the bare minimum coursework, so didn't get any opportunity to shine
>school system didn't allow skipping grades, and teachers didn't allow me to get access to material from higher grades
>ended up getting depressed as fuck, stopped trying with school work because I felt as if there was no chance for me ever accomplish anything in life
>eventually dropped out since I had nothing to do in my life
>have been a NEET for years, and have nothing I can do about it
>have had a noose hanging from my ceiling for months, the only thing keeping me from sticking my head in it is the fact that I had the potential to do near fucking anything, yet I was so fucked over that I couldn't anything with all this potential, and I'm almost a wizard, yet I haven't done anything in my entire life

I should just end my miserable fucking life.

>>8473385
People who are gifted, meaning they have an IQ of 130 or higher, are at a higher risk of underachieving than any other group out there.

Its really about the circumstance they're in. If you get all the opportunities to be successful as possible, and all the opportunities to learn whatever you want, and the ability to learn about what those opportunities entail to fully take control over what you choose to learn, you can easily be the next Einstein, or Hawking, or Tesla.

However, if you get fucked over, don't have many opportunities to learn to your potential during those crucial years of high brain plasticity, then you're fucked, completely and utterly fucked over. You go through public school, You're fucked. You don't get the opportunities to learn what you want, You're fucked.

You could have an IQ of 300, however you get no opportunities to use that to your potential in your life, you are going to depression, anxiety, and have fucked up social skills, since you never get opportunity to meet someone who is on the same intellectual level, with a similar emotional and developmental level.

>>8479722
Your description is retarded and you are retarded.

>>8472172
I'm both. And I've got undiagnosed Aspergers as well.

>>8479742
>I should just end my miserable fucking life.
No, you should just apply to do a Uni degree.

>implying it's genetic
but yeah, it's helped me in some ways and hurt me in others.

>>8479755

>Implying I care what a nerd on 4chan thinks of me

>>8479727

Everyone is different, sure. But most people with HFA or some other kind of autism that I've met seemed almost desperate to find an understanding with someone. They really wanted to know what it's like to feel connected with someone. Recently a 22 year old guy with Aspergers here in my country hanged himself while live streaming it because he felt that the loneliness was just to unbearable. People who have Schizoid personality disorder never actually care about things like this, and that's even a criteria for having the disorder. You don't care about finding understanding. You don't care that you've spent the whole week completely on your own, you are just all around apathetic to everything and everyone.

Who else here /loves to spin/??

>>8480062

I'm undiagnosed with probably Asperger's and I feel exactly what you describe. I used to come home crying most nights during primary school and high school because I wanted to have friends, but didn't have any. I hit myself and wanted to destroy my room every time. I hate feeling always alone, my dream is literally to be in a relationship (I have one friend), but I feel it won't ever come true. I just want to feel close to someone, I'm not even close with my parents.

>>8472111

>111

>1+1+1 = 3

A U T I S M
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Who here /obsessed with cracking joints/?

I have been cracking my knees several times a day for over a decade.

>>8480479

I've been doing it since I was 9 or so, can do nearly all my joints but sometimes I'd stop doing a few for a while then they get harder to crack. It's nice, I like to watch chiropractic videos too.

>>8480479

Yesssss. I cracks both of my fingers joints a lot.

>>8480479
Me. Neck, shoulders, arms, fingers.

>>8472111
i have ocd instead it's like a more flexible autism except i didn't get it from vaccines

>>8472232
that's a really long way of saying "stubborn asshole"

>>8472223
I thought so, then became stimulant addict and felt intense anxiety/paranoia.

How has your day been fellow autists? Have you sperged out a little? Today I have been good but a movie I downloaded had a scene out of order which made me furious.

>>8481730
What movie was it?

>>8481739

The hunger games 1

>>8472111
I would give anything to be cured from it. I don't want to wake up tomorrow and hate myself every time I'm with other people. I don't want to feel like I'm completely separate from humanity. I don't want to be associated with a disease that makes you a socially retarded freak.

>>8480618
This is me, it didn't even stop after i started with lifting weights and boxing

>>8480479
I pop most joints in my body any given day. Knees are one of the most satisfying.

>>8472229
neither is aspergers

>>8472146
INTJ master race, Ni, Te, Fi, Se > Ti, Ne, Si,Fe

>>8472111
What have you done with your godlike genetics?

>>8479742
No one else realise he's taking the piss?

>I'm just too smart and no one realises it and I can't prove it so I'm depressed.

>>8475485
Actually, a syndrome is a collection of symptoms that are not universal across all cases. With syndromes like autism or schizophrenia, people usually don't have every symptom unless it's severe.

>>8482426
I prefer wrists- I can only do it in the morning and it is immensely satisfying

>>8475402
le same

>>8479771
>undiagnosed asbergers
stop being a special snowflake and get a proper diagnosis faggot

>>8482574

Locking my fingers together behind my head and pulling pops my wrists when they need to go, it's my favorite too.

>>8482931
i just grab the back of one hand and push down with the other. elbows are also fantastic.

>>8475932
I had a friend with severe autism who could talk. He would only talk about very few things though and would ask questions he already knew the answer too.

>>8475841
That's down syndrome anon.

>>8479783
If it's not genetic, then explain Low Functioning Autists dumb fuck.
>inb4 they're just pretending their whole life for attention

>>8482931

I can just crack my fingers at will. It's amazing. I also pop my jaws sometimes.

>>8472111
I think I must have some kind of autism.
>social behavior does not come intuitively
>relatively poor motor skills and hand-eye coordination
>prodigious learning speed as a child
>ticks
>very self-consciouss

>>8475528

>I compulsively clap my hands when excited

God bless, greatest country

>>8485524
How do you even know my country lol? This board doesn't show flags. I'm from Canada, though if you wanted to know.

>>8486321
Do you have American relatives?

>>8486341

I'm from Quebec, but part of my family lives in the US, yes, though I never saw them.

>>8479742
if you're so smart just think of how to get out of your situation and do it anon, you fucking retard

>>8485512
OH shit, only 4 dont apply to me. fuck fuck fuck
>tfw just realized brainlet

>>8485512
>Spins objects or self

fuck

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Are you part of the 16%?

>>8486511

>mfw I'm still a student and won't be in the 16% because I can't interact with people.

>free college from autism essay
>free health care from simple diagnosis
>free pass in social situations because just an autism error
>constant assistance from people when I'm struggling
Having obvious motor issues is much better than it sounds.

>>8487332

>no free friends :(

>>8485512
>inappropriate
>apparent
>may
Is autism an American thing? Seems pretty irrational.

>inappropriate attachment to objects
>insistence on sameness
>echoes words or phrases
>difficulty in expressing needs; may use gestures
>sustained unusual or repetitive play
>may not want cuddling
Literally describes every church sermon ever. Guess religion is the ultimate autism.

>tfw you have aspergers, aka the basic bitch of mental disorders

Why can't I be a psychopath or something else interesting?

I did, but then I fucked it up. : )

6'2" 99.9% IQ reading 99.8% Math

Attractive

But then I got diabetes

Because I drank too much milk

/drunk

But yeah, genetics don't mean shit unless you optimize

: )

Though, granted, I still have much greater chances

/drunk

Still allof you cna optimize

Love ye

>>8488051

Aspergers isn't real, you just have autism.

>>8472111
Is it autism if I feel time is slower and longer is I abstain from self gratification?