Who here's special?

I’m not sure.

I don’t know what theyre thinking.

I assume they’re afraid.

But…I don’t know.

Dude, that’s why you have to see a professional. Better now than to wait when your an adult. You have to explain all this to your parents, and as your parents their job is to make sure you’re healthy.

Again I’m not sure. They could be getting ready to test me without me knowing.

If not then it looks like I may not get tested anyways because my mom’s going back into nursing school (which I think this may be the reason I never got tested in the first place: my mom has school to finish and my dad has work to do.)

And finally I should state that I apparently have an authority complex.
I’m afraid of authority without due reason.
So part of the reason may be of my own.

But my dad told me that he’s not mad or disappointed when I mention it.
He says “there are things that you need to work on. I think those will be solved once we get you driving, get a job, and more involved in the church”
So that’s that.

Having Asperger’s and other forms of Autism does not make you “unhealthy”. :neutral_face:

But whatever.

S330, do you have any severe obsessions?

Yes.

When I was in third grade, I was REALLY obsessed about a game called Pac man world 2.

I was so obsessed about it that I acted like pacman :open_mouth:

That lasted up until I was around 10 or 12ish.
Then came the nickelodeon show called Jimmy neutron.
I also mildly acted like the main character.
Then it kind of suppressed. I had mild obsessions but they usually never lasted long.
Though I think there may have been one other. I dont remember it.

Nowadays it’s Portal and Portal 2. :slight_smile:

You ought to see how many of the dialogue files I’ve collected from that game. As well as the models I made based off of reference pictures from the game.
Occasionally I’ll quote a line from Cave Johnson who is a character from the game.

The one fairly mild obsession that has never left is the one about robots.

Ive always liked robots.
A lot of the characters in my stories are robots (including myself).
I’ll also act like one sometimes.
And that’s to this day.

EDIT: oh! I also remember that before the pacman obsession (from day one to then)
I REALLY REALLY liked trains.
My grandpa often quotes something I said once when I was at that age: “I just want to talk about trains”

8D

Sorry if it came out that way. I’m just saying he’s clearly unhappy and confused, and if he’s that worried about it, he should see a doctor. I have an Anxiety Disorder, and while it’s not ‘unhealthy’, it can still interfear with your daily life unless you have a better understanding of it.

I think my dad is convinced that Aspergers is just a plain old label.

He says this:

Then he asked if I WANTED to be diagnosed with aspergers.

I told him this:

“No. But it’s along the lines of…something like…”

As you can tell, I couldn’t find a good way to explain that I wanted to be tested so that i could at least clear the question of whether I have it or not.

:frowning:

he’s right.
Or I’m coming to that conclusion.

He’s basically putting the argument that:

1: I was mostly homeschooled (true story) so I have had barely any social interaction thus ending in me not having the acceptable social skills.

2: my sloppy handwriting is because no one pushed me to write neatly.

3: he was called weird, awkward and so on when he was in school.

4: I can teach myself out of quirks. And social skills as well.

and loads more I cant recall.

The only thing I never thought of is how normal my sisters act compared to me.

I’ve watched my sisters. They seem to act “normal” socially.
They engage in conversation. They maintain conversation. They seem to behave like everyone else.

:~o :open_mouth: :question: :neutral_face: :cry:

I’m going to ask my sisters If they have any social difficulties at all.

While I still think they should get you examined, what your father said is pretty much what I explained before.

Everyone feels alienated at one point, and a lot of people can feel related to Aspergers, because the rest of the people can feel them too. So you probably don’t have it at all. BUT, that also the reason to get you examined. When in doubt of something with a line as faint as that one, one should get professional help.

And this is also partly why I’m discouraged.

Because the thing is that childhood and general situational evidence supports it.
There are some quirks that I have that point to it (obsession of robots, absorption into activities, sensitivity to noise [loud noises grate on my ears. They always have. I can also find a few smells strong.] the fact that Ive always had an above average reading level [though more than likely irrellevant. Only coming to mind as usually correct grammar and such are known observations amongst Aspies], and not quite interpreting people correctly.), my mom had often wondered (when I was younger, I had a tendency to hit my sisters when they got me really angry. Mom got on me one day and asked me, “do you have ADHD!! are you Autistic?!?” I often wanted to say, “how should I know. I’m no psychiatrist.” but of course being me. I kept my mouth shut and showed no anger. Though I don’t remember if I was angry.
[by the way. I don’t hit my sisters anymore. :slight_smile:]) if I had it. And has had instances where shed make those wonderings evident. She has even considered having me tested once. But her school prevented her from doing so.

All this to say: With this much data, it seems more likely that I have it.

But I think my dad thinks that they’re nothing more than a label. That way instead of telling you to work out of your quirks, they can just say, “he has a condition” and give you psychotropic drugs and tell you to teach yourself out of it.

Woah, you have sloppy writing, too? :open_mouth: My writing is so bad I have to decode it for teachers. Except for when I can’t read it. 8D :blush:

Yeah my writing is bad. Even at my slowest writing speed.
It was bad to the point my 8th and 9th grade science teachers got a little mad at me for it.
This is a more recent self-test

If that’s bad, I don’t know what my hand writing is. 8D

Why it’s not that bad?

Heck!! You ought to see my older writings. They’re so bad I can’t read them 8D

I can barely read my current writing.

Yeah.

I’m going to find one of my older writings here. :slight_smile:

My mom hates my hand writing. When I was little, she had me work on it for an hour a day. Suffice to say, I did not make progress.

I want to say the same thing. But dad says that we didnt work on it much.

I’m certain we did.

Old writing.

Another old writing.

Now you know how illegible my writing was in 9th grade.

I think my handwriting is worse, but at least I got the grammar and pronunciation right!

I think i might have a small case of attention deficit disorder.

I pretty much excel at grammar.

And my third grade teacher said I had ADD.

I think I’m just plain worrying myself.

I don’t have it. According to dad.
We don’t know if I have it. According to mom.
I have it. According to me.

I’m going to conclude that i don’t have it.

That the quirks and other weirdness I am noticing is due to me being completely self aware due to my age.

After all. I think I interact with people fairly well.
If I know them that is.

Ill never know.

And with that I leave it. It’s unimportant.
If i go through life with people wondering why I act strange I’ll just say I don’t know.