Hello everyone,
I'm a very new member of AspiesCentral and i'm not 100% sure if i have asperger's syndrome. I'll tell you a little bit about my life and perhaps you can tell me if i'm definetly an asperger or just a very very anxious type of person.
first of all, i'm male 20 years old and my big problem is huge anxiety when i'm in public places. I found out about asperger syndrome about a week ago and it looks alot like me, i always try to stay alone and i get very upset and anxious when i have to go somewhere. Anytime I am in a public place i can't think of anything else than whats around me (i observe people and i observe what im doing too.) when i walk in a corridor and someone is walking towards me, i just try to look zoned out into my thought, but really i'm thinking about the person (whats he/she's thinking). When i'm at home, i recently took the habit of never picking up the phone unless its someone i know, i just let any other calls go on the voicemail, i have no facebook and im not interested since i have no friends and no interest into making friends. Ive had friends until i was 17-18 years old, they were normal people and i had no interest in making new friends because it looked enough to me. They were always to one to call me and eventually, when i finished highschool, i never saw them again. They gave me a nickname because they said i had no emotions (smiled very few times and no facial expressions).
The odd thing is that, when i was at elementary school i was speaking from my stream of consciousness and i was regarded as a very active kid. Altough, ive been told that i was very often not listening and thinking of something else. I also noticed that i could focus really good when im doing something. In elementary school i learned to do unicycle in a short period of time while all the other childrens were playing together and at the moment im really getting interested into classical music and im teaching myself piano wich i play quite often.
I have many problems right now, i started to never look at the person in front of me when i'm eating and i find it extremely hard to look for more than 5 seconds, i do this even with my family, this is quite recent (5-6 months) and i really can't help it. At school i only look at my computer and never look around and i hope that no ones talk to me, i get really stressed all the time and i don't know how to react in most situations.
Heres some test results that i hope you can see:
- AQ Test: The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ)
- RAADS-R Test: The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R)
- Scored 36 on the very common AQ test all around internet.
Id like to know your thoughts on my case, if its related to asperger.
Thank you.
I'm a very new member of AspiesCentral and i'm not 100% sure if i have asperger's syndrome. I'll tell you a little bit about my life and perhaps you can tell me if i'm definetly an asperger or just a very very anxious type of person.
first of all, i'm male 20 years old and my big problem is huge anxiety when i'm in public places. I found out about asperger syndrome about a week ago and it looks alot like me, i always try to stay alone and i get very upset and anxious when i have to go somewhere. Anytime I am in a public place i can't think of anything else than whats around me (i observe people and i observe what im doing too.) when i walk in a corridor and someone is walking towards me, i just try to look zoned out into my thought, but really i'm thinking about the person (whats he/she's thinking). When i'm at home, i recently took the habit of never picking up the phone unless its someone i know, i just let any other calls go on the voicemail, i have no facebook and im not interested since i have no friends and no interest into making friends. Ive had friends until i was 17-18 years old, they were normal people and i had no interest in making new friends because it looked enough to me. They were always to one to call me and eventually, when i finished highschool, i never saw them again. They gave me a nickname because they said i had no emotions (smiled very few times and no facial expressions).
The odd thing is that, when i was at elementary school i was speaking from my stream of consciousness and i was regarded as a very active kid. Altough, ive been told that i was very often not listening and thinking of something else. I also noticed that i could focus really good when im doing something. In elementary school i learned to do unicycle in a short period of time while all the other childrens were playing together and at the moment im really getting interested into classical music and im teaching myself piano wich i play quite often.
I have many problems right now, i started to never look at the person in front of me when i'm eating and i find it extremely hard to look for more than 5 seconds, i do this even with my family, this is quite recent (5-6 months) and i really can't help it. At school i only look at my computer and never look around and i hope that no ones talk to me, i get really stressed all the time and i don't know how to react in most situations.
Heres some test results that i hope you can see:
- AQ Test: The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ)
- RAADS-R Test: The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R)
- Scored 36 on the very common AQ test all around internet.
Id like to know your thoughts on my case, if its related to asperger.
Thank you.
