I have Asperger's

Hey, may I just say, I have a really close friend with Aspergers and he has come along in leaps and bounds. He's gone from not socialising away from his best friend, to randomly gaining friends without his best friend, has had relationships and even has gone on to complete his Drama GCSE among other great things. He's now our resident tea maker in the sixth form room, too!

Honestly, it's all about practice to sort of help you out. Of course it doesn't get rid of the Aspergers but it certainly helps along with it. If it wasn't for my friend taking Drama GCSE and his best friend moving to a different school, he wouldn't have come out of his shell at all by A-Level.

Best of luck!

I strongly believe that if you are capable enough to form a relationship with someone then you don't have asperger's syndrome unless you're a female because it's so easy for females to form relationships compared to males. Aspergers is all about struggling to socially communicate with others and forming relationships with the opposite sex requires a ton of social communication skills especially if you're a male so you cannot have aspergers and must have been misdiagnosed.

I swear you just want to have Aspergers. Although, why you'd want it, is a mystery.

I don't want it I have already explained why I want to be diagnosed.

I got similar scores. It said I was very likely an Aspie too.

Self diagnosed autists; is there anyone more irritating?

Just because I'm self diagnosed doesn't mean I wear it as a badge or that I was the first to apply the term to myself.

When I was about 15 someone else applied the term to me, I looked it up and found that it really explained how I related to the world. I didn't want to self diagnose, though, due to the attitudes of people like you. When I was 17 or so someone else said it again and I had another look at it and began to accept it, and it has really helped me to understand how I relate to the world and why I feel the way I do. I don't tell people, and I don't use it as a crutch - so why do you have a problem?

Why would you say you have something when you don't have a diagnosis? That's the problem. You don't know if you have it. It could be something else with similar symptoms.

Why would you say you have something when you don't have a diagnosis? That's the problem. You don't know if you have it. It could be something else with similar symptoms.

What 'something else' could that be?

(Social) anxiety, maybe?

that's a possibility

What 'something else' could that be?

Social anxiety, anxiety, avoidant personality disorder.... Anything really. The stuff you mentioned is mainly anxiety issues. Do you have problems with hypersensitive hearing? motor problems with speech? etc?

Why would you say you have something when you don't have a diagnosis? That's the problem. You don't know if you have it. It could be something else with similar symptoms.

As disclosure, I am studying maths at Cambridge, and am therefore very unlikely to be neurotypical.

Anyway, you don't have to fulfill all the criteria, or? That's why at the end they allways have the "doesn't meet other critiria, but clearly is different in that way"-diagnosis. (Yeah, very simply putted down, i know.)

But I agree, it can be other things, too.

As disclosure, I am studying maths at Cambridge, and am therefore very unlikely to be neurotypical;

If I pass the Aspie test, that is (according to you) a necessary and sufficient condition for me to be aspie.

Why are so many people assuming you need to be different to like math? Is it not more the perception of society and the wrong wording of Aspie questions in addition to a very narrow minded view of Aspergers, that makes Math students…

(I really don't know, why Cambridge Math students should be different, there is no reason for that.)

I know a neurotypical with a degree in maths and computer science from Oxford. The maths thing is a myth. Not all people on the spectrum are good at maths.

I'm not saying you need to be different to like maths. I'm saying it's extremely helpful to be different in a certain way if you want to be good at maths.


To be frank, in order to get in to maths at Cambridge, you need to be very good at maths. To get in to maths at (say) Southampton, you need to be good at maths. Cambridge maths students are *highly* atypical in their maths ability. I was under the impression that aspieness and mathematical ability correlated very highly - your survey link http://docs.autismresearchcentre.com/papers/2007_BC_etal_maths.pdf is interesting and surprising. I think few mathmos I know of [memo: that's already selected for less-Aspie people] are heavily autistic, but about half strike me as being somewhere on the spectrum. That suggests that what I know as "autism spectrum" is not what you know as "autism spectrum". My opinion that "if you are very good at maths, then you are probably on the spectrum" is revised as a result of that link to "if you are very good at maths, then you are considerably more likely to be on the spectrum than if you were not good at maths".


OK, I accept that "you can be neurotypical and good at maths" and that "you can be aspie and bad at maths". (I understood that already).

Anyway, that's not the point. Pretend my first paragraph didn't exist, and that I didn't think that "being a Cambridge mathmo is a good indicator that you are on the spectrum". Does being diagnosed as aspie tell you anything you didn't already know?