Hi everyone!
I'm Vergil, I'm 27 and from Europe, I'm a programmer. What am I doing here? My psychotherapist suggested that I could be on the autism spectrum and I'm looking into more detail about it, although from what I've read so far, I don't think it's ASD, but a bunch of other things that might look similar on the outside. I have some social difficulties, however, I rather think it has to do with unfavourable upbringing and poor boundary setting. I'm also a programmer and exceptionally gifted at math and other intellectual abilities and it tends to freak people out. I mean it: people are afraid. I did a lot o psychological tests for all kinds of mental health issues, because I struggle to find the right treatment and would really want to overcome my emotional difficulties, and found the tests Really Dumb (which is a whole separate story...) and my IQ apparently is above the scale for which the psychologist solemnly apologised that the test was so limited. The max of the scale was 130, I did everything correctly, so it's probably 140 or 150 (the likelihood of a given score decreases exponentially). I also think that having a bit of ADHD might contribute to some of the symptoms that the psychotherapist points to, like fidgeting. One way or another, I would be happy to find resources about ASD in high functioning adults.
I'm Vergil, I'm 27 and from Europe, I'm a programmer. What am I doing here? My psychotherapist suggested that I could be on the autism spectrum and I'm looking into more detail about it, although from what I've read so far, I don't think it's ASD, but a bunch of other things that might look similar on the outside. I have some social difficulties, however, I rather think it has to do with unfavourable upbringing and poor boundary setting. I'm also a programmer and exceptionally gifted at math and other intellectual abilities and it tends to freak people out. I mean it: people are afraid. I did a lot o psychological tests for all kinds of mental health issues, because I struggle to find the right treatment and would really want to overcome my emotional difficulties, and found the tests Really Dumb (which is a whole separate story...) and my IQ apparently is above the scale for which the psychologist solemnly apologised that the test was so limited. The max of the scale was 130, I did everything correctly, so it's probably 140 or 150 (the likelihood of a given score decreases exponentially). I also think that having a bit of ADHD might contribute to some of the symptoms that the psychotherapist points to, like fidgeting. One way or another, I would be happy to find resources about ASD in high functioning adults.
