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is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???

 
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is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
sorry if this is a stupid question but just curious to what other people might think
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
I believe it is possible, but not from actually just now becoming autistic, but merely being misdiagnosed or just missed all together.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
yes it happened to me last year i'll be 40 soon
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
The question is you've obviously made it this far in life without knowing you had it so do you even have it all? You're doing fine if you have the capacity to question it, so you don't have it.

You're fine.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
Yes indeed.

Some cases undoubtedly still get missed - more so with Asperger's and those on the borderline.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
i overheard a lady in the market talking about symptoms of aspergers to a friend of hers and what she said sounded very similar to the problems i have. i was diagnosed with depression and anxiety many years ago, what i heard makes me wonder if i have been misdiagnosed
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
Do you walk around with your hands rested on your thighs?
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
Take The AQ Test
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Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
i overheard a lady in the market talking about symptoms of aspergers to a friend of hers and what she said sounded very similar to the problems i have. i was diagnosed with depression and anxiety many years ago, what i heard makes me wonder if i have been misdiagnosed
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Then your probably not. Autistics have serious problems socially, you sound like a guy that thinks he may have it when you don't.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
Anything is possible, but I don't understand why you would set this as a goal.
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Take The AQ Test
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Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives.
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Wow i scored a 34. the average score is 16.4! people with autism or related disordes scored 32. i know the test isn't 100% it still makes me wonder wtf
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
Anything is possible, but I don't understand why you would set this as a goal.
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i don't understand? by sayig setting this as a goal what do you mean?
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
yes it happened to me last year i'll be 40 soon
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how was your diagnosis discovered?
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
I scored high on the AQ test but I don't think I have Aspergers. I like my own company and my social skills are lacking from all the time I've spent alone. I doubt I'm the only person in that position. I would guess a lot of solitary people would score high on that test. Maybe I'm reading into it wrong though.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
The question is you've obviously made it this far in life without knowing you had it so do you even have it all? You're doing fine if you have the capacity to question it, so you don't have it.

You're fine.
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seriously does having the capacity to question it make you less likeky to have the disorder??
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
The question is you've obviously made it this far in life without knowing you had it so do you even have it all? You're doing fine if you have the capacity to question it, so you don't have it.

You're fine.
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Your post relies on a particular false assumption. That if he is doing fine he is not on the spectrum. He may very well be on the spectrum and be doing fine and if so why then OP would there be a need to be daignosed?

Anxiety and depression are comorbidities to Asperger syndrome so possibly what has been recognized is a symptom and not the cause. The cause could be Asperger syndrome but there is no need to get a diagnosis since there is no medical treatment (nor do we need one), there is no medical basis for this being anything other than a specific set of traits contrary to the norm, and psychiatrists have a tendency to overdiagnose in all psychiatric disorder classes but particularly in the ASD and learning disorder category.

They likely will offer you very dangerous antipsychotic meds that have no medicinal value to the condition at hand and may result in serious health consequences. Meds in this class like Zyprexa, Geodon, and Risperdal seem, upon a look at the evidence, to be prescribed not for any therapeutic value but because they are some of the most expensive pharmaceuticals known to man and within the 17-yr patent privilege.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
yes it happened to me last year i'll be 40 soon
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Flu shot?

I thought they called it GBS in adults?
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
On the side bar of this site you can see an article from the UK guardian..on OCD...if you click on it..there is another article (part of a series) written by an adult just diagnosed as aspbergers...it's a fascinating insight. See if you can relate.
I am standing for my convictions just as you are standing for yours. So no need for either of us to take offense.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
yes it happened to me last year i'll be 40 soon
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how was your diagnosis discovered?
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i took that test and was referred to a specialist by my old doc who had a lot of interviews and tests to decide
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
On the side bar of this site you can see an article from the UK guardian..on OCD...if you click on it..there is another article (part of a series) written by an adult just diagnosed as aspbergers...it's a fascinating insight. See if you can relate.
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Thank you. i'll have a look.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
yes it happened to me last year i'll be 40 soon
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how was your diagnosis discovered?
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i took that test and was referred to a specialist by my old doc who had a lot of interviews and tests to decide
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And which antipsychotic did he give you?
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
Take The AQ Test
[link to www.wired.com]

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives.
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Wow i scored a 34. the average score is 16.4! people with autism or related disordes scored 32. i know the test isn't 100% it still makes me wonder wtf
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i scored a 27 and i have alway's known to be abit, not much, different than other people and when i learned about autism i instantly thought to be leaning towards it.

Start at 12:00 in this video [link to video.google.com]
That man tells something about the brain. He explains some mechanisms of the brain and he calls the mind a mechanism and intuition too. We are not the mind but the sum of it all and i think these scientist of ours only give names to what they see as a dissorder while it is not. Intuition is then mechanism that is very active in people that are diagnosed with autism, the mind reasons intuition sees.
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I scored 28 and have a nephew who is autistic.
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Take The AQ Test
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Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives.
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Wow i scored a 34. the average score is 16.4! people with autism or related disordes scored 32. i know the test isn't 100% it still makes me wonder wtf
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1234347


i scored a 27 and i have alway's known to be abit, not much, different than other people and when i learned about autism i instantly thought to be leaning towards it.

Start at 12:00 in this video [link to video.google.com]
That man tells something about the brain. He explains some mechanisms of the brain and he calls the mind a mechanism and intuition too. We are not the mind but the sum of it all and i think these scientist of ours only give names to what they see as a dissorder while it is not. Intuition is then mechanism that is very active in people that are diagnosed with autism, the mind reasons intuition sees.
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Thank you friend i'm looking into your link now
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
I scored 28 and have a nephew who is autistic.
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sorry to hear that!. how old is your nephew?
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
12. I feel sorry for my brother. He knows his son will never be independent and will always need a guardian.
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thank you everybody for all your advice and opinions! i will be looking into everything you guys recomended..rockon
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12. I feel sorry for my brother. He knows his son will never be independent and will always need a guardian.
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12. I feel sorry for my brother. He knows his son will never be independent and will always need a guardian.
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don't feel sorry give him a hand and be there for him! what are his disabilities?
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
Autism and/or aspergers is a broad spectrum 'disorder'. There are plenty of people who are functional 'lightly' autistic who go through life without a diagnosis.

Or worse, are diagnosed by the symptoms their condition presents such as OCD, antisocial, etc.

I suspect that many of the Jones and Generation X may qualify under the Aspers/Autistic spectrum of diagnosis, but instead were classified as ADDHD, Depression, Social Anxiety disorder, blah. Just because the Autism spectra was just not that well known in the 70's and 80's.

Further back kids were diagnosed as 'retarded' (yes the word was used professionally at one point and was PC to use) or other names. Because no one knew about it. (60's and further back).

I suspect that as time wears on we will find that a decent chunk of the industrialized population has slight aspergers and that it is connected to our electric life styles. That and sterility and a few other issues that comes with our lifestyle.
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Re: is it possible to be diagnosed with autism or aspergers when you're an adult???
i overheard a lady in the market talking about symptoms of aspergers to a friend of hers and what she said sounded very similar to the problems i have. i was diagnosed with depression and anxiety many years ago, what i heard makes me wonder if i have been misdiagnosed
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If it sounds like a duck, walks like a duck... most likely it is a duck.

Aspergers is most likely what you do have, it may be slight in general for you.

I just did the test and tested 37.. again.

It makes sense when I look at my life in retrospect. Mind I have been diagnosed OCD, Depressed (Clinally and Chronically), Anxiety, social dysfunctional, and a few other things. Which are addressing potential symptoms of aspergers. Thus given what new data we have, today if I was a kid I most likely would be tested and found to be a positive match of Aspergers and be treated correctly.

Way back in the 60's and 70's when I was a kid and a young adult we just didn't know about Autism and Aspergers thus they came up with a whole slew of diagnosis, which when it comes to a few like chronic depression were huge mistakes, that lead to my being placed on antidepressants that sent me from merely sad to suicidal.

Even today there is a bit of misunderstanding on the subject, if you are a child of the 80's and 90's chances are pretty high you were missed on the diagnosis end. Today your chances of being missed are pretty low.
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