/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Have any of you been tested for asperger's or autism? If so, when (how old were you) and how is it done.

Self diagnosed for aspergers here.

[Anonymous No.]

Yes, Asperger's, 20, http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/all-about-diagnosis.aspx

[Anonymous No.]

>Self diagnosed
No such thing. I can understand people thinking they have problems, which is usually why you go to the doctor to get checked. But that's what a diagnosis is: when someone diagnoses you. Saying you're a "self-diagnosed [disorder]" is just obnoxious.

[Anonymous No.]

>Haruhi
>Asperger's
Not even close, she has ADHD if anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786916

Thanks, I'll give it a read. But I mainly posted to here stories (how did you decide to go and stuff).

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786924
He's probably being ironic. You know, self-deprecation humor and stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

Assburgers, diagnosed by docter when I was 5

Your world sucks, thank god I can create my own in my mind

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786924

This. And it's one thing to self-diagnose, and there's the matter of diagnosing fictional characters and expecting that diagnosis to correspond to real life.

OP is baka.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786924

I've heard it been used on 4chan before, and you all know what it means (online quizes, etc).

Everyone knows a doctor does the diagnosis, not stop being such a whinny faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786929
I had been attending a child psychiatrist for depression and anxiety, then I grew up and they stopped caring about me, but my parents were worried so I went to see my GP. He referred me to someone who I think is a social worker, and she referred me to another psychiatrist. We had a talk and he suggested I might have Asperger syndrome, so I was then referred to an autism specialist. We met and she asked me some questions and we had a talk, then a few days later I received a letter saying I had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.

Your image is wrong, by the way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786941

Fuck....

not=now

[KING OF /jp/ !2K23m85knQ No.]

>>8786924
but the wiki link told him he had all symptoms

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786937
You are such a faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786941
So then you can't. You're not a doctor, and even if you were, doctors can't diagnose themselves (at least with mental disorders).

Just say, "I think I might have Asperger's."

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786937
>Your world sucks, thank god I can create my own in my mind
That's pretty much the opposite of autism...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786937
>Assburgers, diagnosed by docter when I was 5
Asperger's is usually diagnosed from age 8 on. Unlike autistic disorder which has symptoms from birth, Asperger's doesn't really become apparent until you're socially active.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786944

HAHAHA, FUCK YOU

Holy shit your post really pissed my off. I can't understand if you are trolling or just plain fucking stupid. THE REASON I ASKED FOR HOW TO BE TESTED, YOU FUCKING RETARD, WAS TO GET TESTED. THAT MEANS BY A DOCTOR.

IF I DON'T THINK ANYTHING IS WRONG, THEN OBVIOUSLY I WONT ASK SUCH QUESTIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE! That first step to diagnosis is to actually do some fucking research yourself. Do you think people with cancer get diagnosed all of a sudden. No, they get sick and then go to the doctor for further testing. THAT MEANS IF I READ THE WIKI, AND SHOW THE SYMPTOMS, I SHOULD PROBABLY DO FURTHER TESTING.

fuck you

[Anonymous No.]

OP thinks he has Asperger's because he considers himself `intelligent' and `unique'.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786969
>THE REASON I ASKED FOR HOW TO BE TESTED, YOU FUCKING RETARD, WAS TO GET TESTED.
Why bother? You've already made up your mind.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786970
I hate people like this.

Savant talents in autism aren't as common as the media would like you to think. Having autistic disorder or Asperger's disorder doesn't automatically make you smart or special.

[Anonymous No.]

Self-diagnosed myself for cancer here. I took an online test, it's apparently malignant.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786969

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786970

OP here. Barely made it out of high school. Still with my parents and don't know what to do with my life. No I don't consider myself intelligent. Probably average.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786974
Oh shit man, that's awful.

I have 23 of the disorders listed on Wikipedia's "List of mental disorders" page (I read all the Causes and Diagnosis sections) so I know how you feel.

[Anonymous No.]

>Self diagnosed for aspergers here.
This is why Asperger's is over-diagnosed. Too many people *want* to have it, then they shoehorn and cherry pick their way into the diagnosis.

At this point I really don't blame people who claim Asperger's is just an excuse to be rude or to get autism bucks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786980
It was a pretty harsh blow, but now I know in advance so I can start writing my will. At-least I won that new iPad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786924
Making a diagnosis if just looking at a list of symptoms and checking if a person has them. You can do this yourself, I don't see the problem.

[The Buttranger No.]

Self-diagnosed swag. I wake up covered in Touhou.

[KING OF /jp/ !2K23m85knQ No.]

>>8786999
I hope you are joking or trolling

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786999
This has been debated for decades, but you really do need a professional to do it for you. Go download a copy of the DSM or ICD. Read the criteria. If you take it as gospel, you will have most of the anxiety disorders, one or two of the dissociative disorders, a few of the sexual and gender identity disorders (which includes paraphilias), and at least half a dozen mood and personality disorders. In fact, most people would have at least ten mental disorders. But this obviously isn't the case, and professionals know this, which is why there is a lot of research and testing outside of the canonical lists of criteria themselves.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786999
Doing a surgery is just looking at a list of procedures and following them. You can do this yourself, I don't see the problem.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787025

>Doing a surgery is just looking at a list of procedures and following them. You can do this yourself, I don't see the problem.

This guy knows his shit. I did a heart transplant last week on my cat. Needless to say I saved a lot of money and he's as happy as can be.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787025
We should really get rid of surgeons (waste of money) and replace them with a website that walks you through do-it-yourself keyhole surgery in your own home. With Flash animations.

[KING OF /jp/ !2K23m85knQ No.]

>>8786969
not my fault you acted like
" Hey guys I did this 5 question aspergers quiz on wiki and it said I had it. How you guys feel that I was smart enough to take a internet quiz and not waste my time to go to a real doctor and see what he thinks about me."

also turn off the caps

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787032
To be fair, the most common autism quiz (the Autism Spectrum Quotient) is actually grounded in real research and is sometimes used as a diagnostic tool. You can easily find it online[1] and it often serves as a good precursor to a proper diagnosis. Of course it's not a diagnosis in and of itself; getting a high score doesn't mean you definitely have an autism spectrum disorder.

[1] http://psychology-tools.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787032

omg, I thought you'd leave already. I already said in the thread, I merely wrote "Self diagnosed for aspergers here" because I have seen people do it before, and you'd get the idea that I think that I may have something.

Obviously I cannot do a diagnosis on myself. I'm not a fucking retard. The reason I made this thread was to ask people about their experiences pre-diagnosis, to diagnosis, and what did they do to see a doctor.

Please do me a favour and don't respond back.

[KING OF /jp/ !2K23m85knQ No.]

>>8786974
>>8786970
>>8786975
>>8786978
>>8787008
>>8787025
>>8787031
>>8787030
This posts made me so laugh so hard
Thank you guys
Looks like OP actually managed to create the best thread on /jp/
>>8787044
It can be something like an indicator , that the person should go visit a doctor to see for more help, but like you said it scoring high on the test doesn't means the person has autism.I am sure it would take a few visits to a doctor to see if someone has autism or not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787046
King, where are you from?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787045
Then you should consider it might not be Asperger's. The characteristics may have "clicked" for you, but you should widen your horizon a bit. Everyone on /jp/ probably thinks (or has thought) they have, say, dysthymia or bipolar disorder, but it doesn't mean they do (but they could have something similar).

Check some other "social" disorders, like social anxiety disorder. And forgive my stereotyping here, but being bad at socializing doesn't necessarily mean you have a disorder. I see too many fucking people who are shit with people so they decide they have autism.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787023
The human mind can be pretty fucked up, or to say, there are more outliers than regulars. I don't even consider most "mental disorders" actual issues, I consider them personality traits - it's only an actual issue if there's neurological causes behind it, if it's just psychological, it just means your learned thinking patterns are less likely to result in "normal" behavior. In general, most humans suck at it, the world is full of magical thinkers (which don't understand logic and instead only think by association) to full-blown delusionals (see most of today's religions; although I don't mind /jp/'s delusions, they're quite cute and if brings people enjoyment, why not?).
Nature "designed" a rather general piece of thinking machinery and it's not hard for it to vary much between individuals and groups. Some ways of thinking will work better for certain tasks, others not so much, some will result in different internal states and so on. There is no "perfect" way to go about this, there are no objective goals or drives which should be maintained no matter what. If you are in some way, that is 'you', that is your personality and you should either keep it if you want, or change yourself if that's what you want. Most psychological disorders that have no neurological basis are merely personality traits taken to the extreme and all that means is that you're not a "standard" human mind, but then nobody is, some people are just closer to this average, but nobody is exactly that perfect average.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787046
You can actually get diagnosed in one session, depending on your circumstances. In fact diagnosticians use their own "quizzes", for example here in the UK we use a test called the Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO). The key thing about a proper diagnosis however is that you are a real person and the diagnostician can adapt and understand based around you and your answers. Your parents/siblings are usually brought in to answer some questions about your childhood and relationships. It can be quite involved.

Before anyone asks: no, I have no idea how "Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders" abbreviates to "DISCO".

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787070
>Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication disOrders
Gee, I wonder.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787070
DISCO makes it sound like we're back in the good old days, DISCD just sounds like someone fucked up typing DISC.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787077

DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD DISCD

If you sing it to yourself, it sounds like your at a disco.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787050
>I don't even consider most "mental disorders" actual issues, I consider them personality traits - it's only an actual issue if there's neurological causes behind it,
But that's where issues spring up and where there has, again, been a lot of debate by people much smarter than myself. However you need to realize that disorders are just that--disorders (think about the word and its etymology). There's no magic thing that makes something a disorder. I'm sure diseases and other physical illnesses have carefully defined criteria that makes them what they are. It's the same with mental disorders, though it's all "in your head" (but if you want to argue that there can be physical causes/symptoms or that the brain is ultimately a physical entity to begin with, there's that too).
One of the big recurring criteria in DSM is that the problem severely limits or damages your everyday life in some way, or over a long period of time. All people get upset, but it doesn't mean they have major depressive disorder. Everyone has mood swings, but it doesn't mean they're bipolar. There's no one-or-off "schizophrenic gland" in the brain that can tell us whether a person is schizophrenic, but we know schizophrenia exists because we've identified and defined it. We're ultimately the ones responsible for deciding what a mental disorder actually is, and although it's kind of scary and a bit overly bureaucratic, people usually get it right.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787073
I was thinking it might be Diagnostic Interview for Social and COmmunication disorders. The kind of thing they would have called "DISCo" if that didn't look terrible.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787082
That just means that if a personality trait can be harmful to themselves or others, it could be considered a disorder, although some of the disorders that I've read about don't quite fit that definition exactly.

One could go on listing cognitive biases all day long and conclude that those biases will eventually lead to incorrect decisions and thus eventual harm to self or others. The thing is, pretty much all humans commit these errors all the time - our thinking is quite flawed because our cognitive architecture is very general and malleable (both our strong and our weak point). Yet, we don't consider people commiting these errors mentally ill as such issues are the norm for everyone, while those that commit much less errors are very rare. The whole mental illness thing seems to be quite artificial and just tailored to apply to some class of errors that a group of experts decided on, in reality, almost all human thinking is sub-optimal and wrong in many ways. Instead of just admitting that we are flawed (and should improve, if we want to), we're just discriminating on only a small class of identified flaws and considering the rest as "fine" or "normal".

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787101
I understand fear is a hard emotion to fake but that is nothing like afraid. Maybe they shouldn't put these in the fucking tests if they can't properly emulate it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787132
How often have you seen someone afraid in real life?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787122
Of course it's all artificial. That's sort of the paradigm shift you need to have.

Anyway, the problem is when these errors you speak of are recurrent or severe. Yes we have all these crazy social norms and in some alternate universe everyone is depressed 24/7 so being happy means you're mentally ill, but for the most part we can actually identify and define what it means to have a disorder. Depression/melancholia for instance is a good one, because it goes back millennia and we can identify it in other animals in different environments. There's clearly something up there, so we slap a handy label on it, decide some loose boundaries and call it a day.
I think it'll always be in flux though. We'll never have a finished "model" of the vast spectrum of mental disorders, especially not one we can all agree on. It will be in beta forever. Big changes have happened (homosexuality, for instance) and are happening right now (DSM-5 is released next year, and it has a lot of changes). The biggest issues are that we'll never be able to have solid cut-off points for what is "normal" or not, or for what "matters".

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787132

Yeah she just looks retarded

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787101
>>8787106
>>8787110
Is the lazy eye part of the test?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787132
Maybe you can't tell because you have autism?

I can't figure out either of these, particularly the bawsonface one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787153
Maybe. I think she has less control over one side of her face. She just looks confused. Maybe they asked her to do a certain emotion and she was like "What? How?" then they photographed her at that moment by mistake.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787155

Surprise and distress?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787155
The one on the left looks really eager if you know what I mean.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787163
But I don't see where the line is drawn between sad and distress. It could really be either.

[The Buttranger No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787168
You make me happy.

[Anonymous No.]

Is she flirting /jp/, or just happy?

Learn the difference, it could save your life.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787147
In a way, there's no problem with classifying such disorders or traits. The problem appears in cases where treatment can be forced on someone or other legal issues involved - the way society reacts to them, usually not realizing that not all things that are outside the average are bad, or that society itself does not have any single person that perfectly fits that average. It gets even messier when a person might not be considered fit to judge if they have the right to accept or refuse treatment.

Another thing that's important is better understanding of causes and mechanisms that result in some disorders instead of merely lumping various different things that have very different internal states and causes into the same disorder.

[Anonymous No.]

Corrections are mine.

[The Buttranger No.]

>>8787176
left = jackie chan MY MIND IS FULL OF FUCK

right = embarassed after getting a compliment

i'm borderline qualified for autismbucks, but not quite there

[Anonymous No.]

Last one.

There's no answer key for this, so you're really on your own.

If you struggled, go see a doctor or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787185
That arrogant face. I am going to masturbate to it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787101
>>8787106
etc.
This shit can't be real, right? Please respond.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787187
You must be a pro masturbator if you can fap to ths HELLa ugly bitch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787191
SHE TRIED HER HARDEST SHE IS BEAUTIFUL ON THE INSIDE

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787194
Why wouldn't it be real? What's unreal about it?

[Anonymous No.]

Im diagnosed for aspberger.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787202
It doesn't make any sense!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787191
>Implying you wouldn't let her suck your cock and then kiss her for cumswap

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787207
How so? They're facial expressions, you choose the feeling they correspond to.

http://psych.colorado.edu/%7Etito/sp03/7536/Baron-Cohen_97.pdf

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787208
no i wouldn't you faglord ass pharaoh

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787210
>Cohen
>Cohen

I'm not gonna open this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787211
>ass pharaoh
Neat, my insult is catching on!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787219
You probably wouldn't read it anyway. It's all words and statistics and shit.

I didn't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787211
y, i bet you wud like me dick more, anuzmutilated autist homo queen, get in line faggot bcz ur mum is alrdy sucking it. u ve been BUTTOWNED

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787235
no U

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787044
>http://psychology-tools.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/

Did I win?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787199
That reminds me of those meth head mugshots.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787244
HEY FAGGOT WHY ARE YOU ASKING US IF YOU WON IT SAYS RIGHT THERE TO ASK QUESTIONS IN THEIR FORUM SO GO DO ASK THEM DID I WIN? NOT US YOU UNREADING LOSER.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787244
>Austistic
FUCK YEAH AUSTRALIA

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787253
I think they left that in there as a final test.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787210
What a load of ass.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787258
Oh snap, look at this internet expert taking on one of the most renowned researchers of autism.

IT'S ALL BS, AMIRIGHT??

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787244

This test looks fucking awful.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787262
Blame the people who made the Web version and added their own typos.
The test was first introducing in a paper of some sort, but it's probably behind a paywall and then you don't have a computer to sum it all for you.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't know which I have.
I am always stressed out about time. I think that I don't have enough time for my hobbies. I wish there was a method to skip sleeping so I would have more time in the world. I also have a hard time for making time for my hobbies. I want to play games, watch anime, and play VN's and browse /jp/ but I am having a hard time doing that. Someday, I'll skip on videogames and someday I'll skip on anime. Fuck time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787291
> I wish there was a method to skip sleeping so I would have more time in the world.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787259
It is!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787301

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787297
Hook me up with the job that lets me take naps all day please.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787291
Story of my life.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787352
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_organizations

[NSJ No.]

>be 16
>get sent to the principals office again
>be forced to see therapist
>you got tha tism kid.
TFw ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

I was diagnosed with a mild case of ADD in elementary school. I don't know of anything else.

[Anonymous No.]

When I was a teen my psych asked me to take a test for assburgers. I was very scared of what being diagnosed with it would mean so I did not answer "strongly agree" for anything even if I really did. Even after doing this, I was only 10 points away from being on the autism spectrum. The test looks similar like the online ones and asks the same kind of questions.

[Anonymous No.]

Is the janitor deleting all of "NSJ"s posts? Because if so, that makes me really happy.

[Anonymous No.]

I wish I did so I'd have something to blame my failure of a life on.

Nobody ever gave a shit about me growing up even though I did horribly in school and would skip weeks at a time while never making friends. I think they just didn't feel like troubling themselves over it, figuring I'd just off myself on my own as an adult eventually. And although that might still be on the agenda I would like to drag a few of them down with me.

[Anonymous No.]

I probably have Asperger's. I don't see how I couldn't. Self diagnosed for now, though.

[Anonymous No.]

I am completely certain I don't have any psychological disorders.

[Anonymous No.]

No, got myself tested last summer.

Turns out I'm schizotypal instead.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8790405
Who is NSJ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792006
Tokiko.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792001
>Schizotypal personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by a need for social isolation, anxiety in social situations, odd behavior and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs.
Nice, added to my list of disorders.

[Anonymous No.]

I went to the doctor the other day and there they told me that I have this something called the Asperger's syndrome. I stood up, laughed at the doctor's face and walked away. Picture related it was pretty much my expression during the said laugh.

[Anonymous No.]

I have it ironically.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792011
Oh him. Where did NSJ come from?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787244
I'm an expert at this topic.
That test is shit because it uses a four-point scale. NO DECENT TEST USES A FOUR-POINT SCALE.
That is all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792024
Not sure what it stands for, but I guess he's trying to astroturf a conspiracy. A few other folk mentioned NSJ before he even posted (check the archive), so it was probably organized in IRC or something. I feel a bit sorry for him because nobody seems to care that much. Of course posts like this are what he wants, so IHBT, etc. etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792043
But if a test offers me a "neutral" or "indifferent" option, I generally just pick that for everything.

There's probably a disorder for this, too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792046
I do it too. I don't want to show my feelings and thoughts on any type of medium. Even an anonymous standardized test where only I see the results.

[Anonymous No.]

Ask someone diagnosed with autism since elementary school everything.
I don't know what is defunct about me, but apparently I am.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792044
Thanks. Now if only Moetron would get the boot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792054
Do you have autistic disorder or Asperger's disorder? Or one of the hipster autisms like PDD-NOS?
At what age were you diagnosed?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792044
NSJ = New Shitty Janitor?

[Anonymous No.]

I'm diagnosed with aspergers.
Got ritalin and that probably fucked me over.

Being eccentric and very loud > that guy nobody talks to everybody is 100 neutral with.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792067
Ritalin is for ADD faggots.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792071
I still got it.
But since I never took them on time it has been concerta in big doses that last 12 hours.

Not going to take that shit anymore, it really isn't good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792060
The former. 4th grade.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792071
This, though a lot of autistic children are initially misdiagnosed with ADHD. I think the DSM-IV even explicitly prohibits a co-diagnosis of ADHD and an autism spectrum disorder, though a few traits can be similar (particularly in children).

>>8792080
That's very strange. I know some study discovered that ritalin decreased hyperactivity in some autistic children, but not by a significant amount. Did you get it off-label?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792083
That's quite late for autistic disorder.

Your parents probably hate you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792087
I went to "de Waag" here in the Netherlands a psychiatry because I had problems with my father. (Nobody really likes him as he is pretty psychopathic) and there is where I first starting getting the recipes.

[Anonymous No.]

I was diagnosed with Aspergers a couple of years back, it took a 5 hour interview for them to decide. It surprised me when they asked questions about habits like spinning on chairs or focusing on reflections and light.

When it came to questions about faces like >>8787176 , I could identify what they were supposed to be but went into detail about what they actually looked like. For instance the one on the right looks like she just shit in your lunchbox and is waiting for you to open it.

To be honest i don't actually think i have any kind of Autism, i don't mind being diagnosed with it but i think that instead i have severe social anxiety and a paranoid personality.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792098
That's weird, because the Netherlands have a pretty high reputation on the field of Psychiatry. For someone to prescribe Ritalin to someone with autistic disorder is very weird.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792105
90% of the questions are only there to pull you off. In fact, the replies themselves are largely irrelevant and they will pay more attention to way you respond and your reactions.
Then there's the 10% that matters but is clouded by the irrelevant questions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792112
This. I was asked about movies and stuff and in retrospect I think they were either "filler" questions the diagnostician put in, or they were intended to gauge my reaction. If you ask a talkative, non-shy autistic person about films, they'll generally waffle on about something they like instead.
"Hey, do you like movies?"
"No but I like military airplanes did you know that the fastest military airplane in the world is..."

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786924
How do you go in to get diagnosed? What sort of job title does someone need to have for that? I have no clue what to do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792160
You become a medic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792160
Depends where you live.
Here in the UK:
http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/all-about-diagnosis.aspx

It's probably the same in the US or anywhere else. Go to your doctor, mention the problems you're having, see if you can get a referral.
Your country probably has an equivalent national autism group with a website that will explain it. Go do some googling.

[(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ !FFAAAGJzJI No.]

>>8792160
Psychiatrists are in charge of stuff like that.
I don't know if it's the same in every country.

[Pixelhack !rByagItTdE No.]

Omg, I might have asperger's or autism, thanks for the link >>8786916

I'm 27 turning 28 and to see these symptoms compared to mine is just crazy, but, I was diagnosed when I was a kid with ADHD & OCD. Man this sucks. Adding either Aspergers or Autism in to the mix, am I alone in this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792179
We already have a popular tripfag whose name includes the (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ kaomoji and whose tripcode contains a word with repeating letters.

Please find a new name, tripcode, and/or gimmick.

[Anonymous No.]

>5 hour interview
Interesting. My diagnosis was based on a number of tests and interviews every Wednesday for two months, each session lasting between one and two hours. Got called in to hear the result three months later.

[Anonymous No.]

diagnosed with schizophrenia, though they didn't tell me which type, psychiatrist was just being pedantic anyway, I'm most likely normal.

[Aoi Yamada !!rU3L1H6t+W0 No.]

i was diganose with dyslexia at an early age O_O but now im in unviersity and doing great in my future career as an engineer

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792187
Sorry, I'll turn it off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792105
>5 hour interview
Interesting. My diagnosis was based on a number of tests and interviews every Wednesday for two months, each session lasting between one and two hours. Got called in to hear the result three months later.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792186
Probably, because >>8792087
>the DSM-IV even explicitly prohibits a co-diagnosis of ADHD and an autism spectrum disorder, though a few traits can be similar (particularly in children).

Though again, it's possible that you were misdiagnosed. A lot of autistic children can be quite hyperactive, and most autistic people in general have weird obsessions and strong compulsions. However it doesn't mean they have ADHD or OCD.
It's tempting for any socially awkward person to look at a list of symptoms and say, "Oh my god that FITS ME PERFECTLY!" but really you have social anxiety or are just bad at talking to people. Look up some other common traits of Asperger's that aren't required diagnostics. Things like mind-blindness and hand flapping. Those are often strong indicators.

If I was you I would look into it, but do consider you might actually just have ADHD and OCD.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't have trouble reading human emotion and if I have some medication to sedate me and remove my anxiety then I am able to function well enough in social situations, but I feel this overwhelming need for isolation.

I'm only really happy when I'm alone and being around anyone, aside from /jp/ or some areas of the internet, drains me of my happiness. I've made friends after being pressured to do so by family members, but after about a month I feel so exhausted and unhappy that I abandon them and return back to my isolation.

What disorder do I have? Is this autism?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792190
>i
>diganose
>im
>unviersity
http://www.4chan.org/rules
> 3. Do not post the following outside of /b/:
> indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?")

Your disorder is no excuse for rule breaking. If you can't post properly, don't post at all.

[KING OF /jp/ !2K23m85knQ No.]

mehhhhhhhh
This thread started so funny , now its just boring.
I want more people like OP who self-diagnose themselves with wiki links

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792209
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidant_personality_disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypal_personality_disorder

[KING OF /jp/ !2K23m85knQ No.]

>>8792219
just read the wiki links , don't waste your time with a doctor
>>8792222

[Aoi Yamada !!rU3L1H6t+W0 No.]

>>8792214

but O_o when i type it looks normal so its nort rulebreaking lol

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792219
Seems I chose my timing perfectly in >>8792222

Really though, "self-diagnosis" is bullshit, but if you read Wikipedia and think, "Hey this might be me!" then do some more research. Read support websites and perhaps the DSM. If you're still worried, go talk to your doctor.
But remember that disorders are disorders. Plenty of people are shy. Just about everyone in the world has been nervous around people. However it isn't until it becomes pervasive or recurring that it becomes something like social anxiety disorder or avoidant personality disorder. Personality disorders and mood disorders are the worst for this. "Mood" != "mood disorder" and "personality" != "personality disorder". Remember that, /jp/.

[KING OF /jp/ !2K23m85knQ No.]

>>8792238
good answer m8.I like what you said
but you have to admit its funny to see people doing a self diagnose with the help of wiki links,and claim " I got autism"

they can be just an indicator that something is wrong , but to get a clear picture its always the best to go to a doctor.But if everyone would do that , I wouldn't laugh about such threads.


The OP made me laugh more more than some comedy movies./jp/ needs more funny guys

[Anonymous No.]

>>8787244
Do I get 'tism bucks now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792231
Does dyslexia prevent you from identifying red squiggles under misspelled words? If not, I suggest something called a "spell checker".

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792267
Sure bro. Just email that Web page to your local Autism Approval Council and they'll start sending you checks right away!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792278
Since my brother is severely autistic, there is no way that they'll deny me!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792266

>m8

FILTHY AUSTRALIAN SCUM

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792238
what if I got diagnosed after staying in a psychiatric hospital for two months but I have none of the symptoms on the wiki ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792290
It means you have it, you're just in denial. Or maybe your doctor was shit, that could be true too.

[Aoi Yamada !!rU3L1H6t+W0 No.]

>>8792272

how do i get a spell checker ? is it on greasemonkey?

[KING OF /jp/ !2K23m85knQ No.]

>>8792281
Nope
But I like to use m8


ok m8?

[Pixelhack !rByagItTdE No.]

here is my score

[Anonymous No.]

I'm surprised this thread isn't swamped with "aspergers isn't real faggots" posts

[Anonymous No.]

I had to get a physical and mental evaluation when applying for my job position. At both evaluations I was told I was the epitome of health.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

>>8792525

... except your feet are abnormally small and your ribcage is only slightly over half as deep as your head.
But having had your body studied for centuries by art historians, that should come as no surprise.

[Anonymous No.]

Autism, but I can't remember how old or how I was tested so I must have been really young.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792551
That's not a statue of me idiot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792551
Don't forget the tragically small penis.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792604
Grower not a shower.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792604
It's obviously not erect.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

>>8792604

Ah, yes, of course.

Sorry, I must've missed it.

[Okuu !!Jq0MHPvHhpb No.]

[Okuu !!Jq0MHPvHhpb No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792604
small penises were a proof of refinement, and to show that affrican were indeed beast lower than human, they had that forced meme about black having huge dicks, to prove that they were animals.
The stigmata of black having big penises remained, albeit being a fabrication of the greek empire to justify use of niggers as slaves by denying them the status of human being.


Also, that's some manly hands he have.

[Anonymous No.]

I was misdiagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome when I was 16; family still believes it and shoves it down my throat, but my recent practitioners don't. I actually seem to be psychotic, although now I don't try to adhere to any label and just say that I'm "fucked up", because there is no other way to describe me when you get right down to it. Still applying for disability, though, although I would like a career someday and feel as if it is being denied to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792692
>greek empire
>african slaves

nigga what the hell u talking about

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786914
>Have any of you been tested for asperger's or autism? If so, when (how old were you) and how is it done.

>Self diagnosed for aspergers here.

I was diagnosed with PDD-NOS at the age of 24.

This is how to get a diagnosis:

Call whoever doctor you visit for check-ups and the like. Ask them to recommend you a psychologist. They will do so.

Call said psychologist and schedule an evaluation. Keep you medical insurance information on hand (should you have insurance).

Go to your scheduled evaluation. The psychologist may forward you to a testing facility.

Take assigned test at testing facility. It takes a while, so don't have any other commitments.

Take results from test back to psychologist. Psychologist will then explain the results back to you. At some point the psychologist will say, "yep, you sure are Autistic/Aspergan/ADD/fucking nuts."

You'll be given paper work saying that you have been proven nuts by a genuine doctor. Xerox these papers like twenty times and keep them safe.

You can skip some of these steps if you know what you're doing, but if you don't (and you don't) I recommend you go through all of them.

At some point you might be asked to see a psychiatrist, and said psychiatrist may proscribe medication if you're interested. Be interested. No pill is gonna cure all your ills, but you'll be surprised how much they help.

(optional step): post a picture of Kohaku holding a syringe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8793080

But, this assumes that you already have a high chance of having the conditions behind that diagnosis in the first place.

What if you would wish to obtain a certain diagnosis, but are not entirely sure if you are eligible for one? If you fail to be diagnosed, are you still capable of being re-diagnosed with that same mental condition?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8793099
That's what the psychologists evaluation is.

After speaking with you for a while, they'll tell you what they think your problem(s) is/are. You can mention what problems you think you have and they'll tell you how likely it is you have that as well.

Don't be afraid to bring up anything at all with your psychologist. They are literally paid to listen.

[Anonymous No.]

-Haven't left the house in 4 months (not including evening walk at 11pm when no one is outside.)

-24, dropped out in grade 8, never worked in my life, parents went through pretty rough divorce and was raised by single parent

-jerk off for a 6 hour straight session every 48 (I 45 minuet breaks to take a piss, get some water, eat, let it go down -- yes its bruised)

-panic when talking to other people or even when im sitting alone in my room

-Sit 13~ hours a day (get up for 5 minuets to stretch and walk on the spot ,1 session of light exercise for 45 min~ (walk) per day

- constantly feel like I am going to suddenly drop dead because one foot has more visible veins than the other

- Don't eat very healthy (though I try to stay away from transfat, cholesterol, and sat fat)

- I am ALWAYS pessimistic even over mundane daily issues, think everything is bullshit, question the news non stop and thinking everything has an ulterior motive.

- Live in Vancouver -- highest cost of living in my country. -- massive housing bubble and every day expenses from food to gas are price gouged --- not that I ever leave the house.

+ currently losing 2~lb a week because I changed from eating transfat processed carb bombs to somewhat more normal food and on a caloric deficit (was 251lb, now 215lb)

+ sometimes I get into a really good mood for whatever reason.

from reading this thread it sounds like I have a case of everything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8794069
You sound like you have a case of being a huge fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8794069

>Haven't left the house in 4 months
>Sit 13~ hours a day (get up for 5 minuets to stretch and walk on the spot ,1 session of light exercise for 45 min~ (walk) per day
>jerk off for a 6 hour straight session every 48

You're just a nigger, and a lazy freeloader

[Anonymous No.]

>>8794160
congrats on the marriage

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>8794069
>>8794073
>>8794097
Same person with dissociative identity disorder.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8794160
same person with ptsd
(congrats on the marriage)

[Anonymous No.]

Yes, Asperger's when I was 9 years old, was done by a psychologist

I worked my ass off as a kid to seem normal and fit in, fast forward to now, and no one knows. I managed to live my dream of being able to seem normal

[Anonymous No.]

>>8786914
HFA when I was in third grade, borderline aspergers in 9th, both done professionally. Recently read about OCD and realized that I don't have any of the ASD symptoms anymore except for the OCD related ones. I blame my autism and aspergers diagnoses on OCD + socially awkward + extremely judgmental.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8794179
>HFA
No such diagnosis. It's not a recognized term/disorder.

Enjoy your make-believe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8794229
I never said it was the official disorder, they just told my parents I was that. On paper I was called autistic.

[Anonymous No.]

Self diagnosed ass burger, like everyone else. Such a pedestrian mental disorder.

[Anonymous No.]

HELL yeah! Autism thread!

[Anonymous No.]

I've suspected I've had Aspergers for a while, but I am getting valuated this coming Monday by a psychologist.
I have many of the symptoms, but I also have diagnosed Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
My paranoia has been going through the roof lately too.

I actually hope I do get diagnosed with assburgers, then I can get autism bux and not have to work this shitty job where everyone hates each other and I get screamed at all the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8792105

>spinning on chairs or focusing on reflections and light.

I do this all the time. To be fair, spinning on chairs is incredibly fun.

O shit.