hypergirl96
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Hello, Hypergirl here! I am a twenty year old mechanical engineering student diagnosed with combine type ADHD who is currently questioning whether or not she could possibly fall somewhere on the low autistic spectrum.
My brother was diagnosed with being very low on the autistic spectrum when he was young. And I can definitely see the symptoms in him now and how they affect him and our family and how they will affect him socially when he goes off to college, but he's far too prideful to admit to having a problem (likely doesn't even realize it) and I don't know if my parents ever told him since it hasn't really affected him all that much as of yet.
But there are definitely some key symptoms to Aspergers that I have, though in small quantities. Most notably my sensitivity to noise and my inability to really picture and remember faces in my head plus my social issues (though I always chalked those up to social anxiety). I've always enjoyed finding the patterns and solving the puzzles in mystery games. I love math and calculus, however I am also creative and pretty good at getting into fictional characters' heads (which I know isn't that typical for aspies, from what I've read). I routinely mistake social cues and am of the honest opinion that few people have any interest in my presence at all. I have been called cold and emotionless because I don't react to things the way others would and seem unaffected by things that should deeply effect me (such as the death of my grandfather) and am often chided for not realizing when people need space or help and also been called non-empathetic for that too. I'm working on it, but it's hard.
I am very talkative and do enjoy being around people, but in small doses and numbers and I absolutely hate loud parties or large social gatherings and would honestly rather just stay home or go out and do something else. I vacillate between being good at making friends and bad at making friends (depending on the situation) but am absolutely horrible at keeping them and keeping in touch. I'm just horrible at the whole friendship thing. I also talk way too much (if you haven't noticed) and can go on tangents for forever about things that others may be totally uninterested in that very circuitous ADHD way of mine while also repeating myself until someone tells me that I am. I also have a very hard time engaging in conversation or a relationship when we don't have anything in common or I am uninterested in the conversation topic. I'll tend to zone out/walk away/not even join in on the conversation. And while a lot of this can be chalked up to ADHD, some of this can't be explained by that diagnosis.
I took an online screening test just to see what it would say and got an AQ score of 31 and thus thought that this may be something to look into. So here I am! Look forward to meeting and talking to you all and possibly getting some advice. After all, if mild Aspergers really is the source of the problem, that could help me in identifying and improving my behavior and improving socially.
My brother was diagnosed with being very low on the autistic spectrum when he was young. And I can definitely see the symptoms in him now and how they affect him and our family and how they will affect him socially when he goes off to college, but he's far too prideful to admit to having a problem (likely doesn't even realize it) and I don't know if my parents ever told him since it hasn't really affected him all that much as of yet.
But there are definitely some key symptoms to Aspergers that I have, though in small quantities. Most notably my sensitivity to noise and my inability to really picture and remember faces in my head plus my social issues (though I always chalked those up to social anxiety). I've always enjoyed finding the patterns and solving the puzzles in mystery games. I love math and calculus, however I am also creative and pretty good at getting into fictional characters' heads (which I know isn't that typical for aspies, from what I've read). I routinely mistake social cues and am of the honest opinion that few people have any interest in my presence at all. I have been called cold and emotionless because I don't react to things the way others would and seem unaffected by things that should deeply effect me (such as the death of my grandfather) and am often chided for not realizing when people need space or help and also been called non-empathetic for that too. I'm working on it, but it's hard.
I am very talkative and do enjoy being around people, but in small doses and numbers and I absolutely hate loud parties or large social gatherings and would honestly rather just stay home or go out and do something else. I vacillate between being good at making friends and bad at making friends (depending on the situation) but am absolutely horrible at keeping them and keeping in touch. I'm just horrible at the whole friendship thing. I also talk way too much (if you haven't noticed) and can go on tangents for forever about things that others may be totally uninterested in that very circuitous ADHD way of mine while also repeating myself until someone tells me that I am. I also have a very hard time engaging in conversation or a relationship when we don't have anything in common or I am uninterested in the conversation topic. I'll tend to zone out/walk away/not even join in on the conversation. And while a lot of this can be chalked up to ADHD, some of this can't be explained by that diagnosis.
I took an online screening test just to see what it would say and got an AQ score of 31 and thus thought that this may be something to look into. So here I am! Look forward to meeting and talking to you all and possibly getting some advice. After all, if mild Aspergers really is the source of the problem, that could help me in identifying and improving my behavior and improving socially.
