Not a problem, my dear fellow, if you answer in a complete sentence: yes, I did or no, I didn't.

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That jogged my Blackadder memory:
BA: "Deny everything, Baldrick!"
M: "Are you private Baldrick?"
B: "No, I'm not! And Captain Blackadder did not shoot the delicious pigeon!"

Yeah, the moral of the story is: don't ask negatives. When I am asked questions like that, I will either answer in complete sentences or say "correct" or "incorrect", instead of "yes" or "no" or "right" or "left".

Holy crap topic switch!

The quiz says No!

7 for me.

That was fun; amazingly enough (;)), I'm apparently 'neurotypical'.
I scored 5 on the first test, 35/161 on the second one, but that was influenced by having to answer "yes" to questions about wether or not I used to feel different or left out, since I was (due to spending large chunks of my childhood in hospital). Should perhaps have answered them as reflecting to my current situation, but considering the end result it should hardly make a difference.

EDIT: swapped the order of the tests, I did them in reverse order.

I got 81/128 on the longer test, and 13 on the shorter one. Seems I'm "neurotypical", but not by much . I might have been a little too hard on myself when answering the question about social relations, though.

I think most self-diagnosed people simply have what Wikipedia terms HFA, which to me is nothing more than a description of a nerd. And that's no disease, it's just a behavioral pattern to which nerds naturally adapt.

Hahaha, sanity pad...

Someone please make a photoshop of this idea, I'm too lazy to do it right now.

I bet picollo would get a negative score..

Wow! So that's three of you who could have an ASD disorder. How do you feel about that?

If you told me you could "cure" me, I'd ask you to go away. Honestly. My AS is on the mild side, and any disadvantages it brings are easily made up for. AS can really be a blessing though.

Take a look up at the stars one night. Yes, theyre pretty. Now look again. Do you see the grid of squares they make, or the hex-grid, or the series of interconnected dodecahedrons? See them? No? Suckers. It's not just the stars. Take any randomly distributed seemingly patternless system such as a patch of grass or leaves on a tree. They're filled with patterns of geometirc shapes, that most people are completely incapable of picking out. I can watch trees in the wind for ages, just watching all the patterns rearrange themselves (for anyon who's hallucinated on acid or cactus, the effect is very similar).

I also have a complete inablity to be bored. If there's "nothing to do" I can just amuse myself by finding text and rearranging all the letters in my head using a rather complex little mathematic system I designed as a child to see what parts of the text "equate" to other parts. Most people go WTF? when I tell them I do that, but to me its perfectly normal, and I was quite surprised when I finally learnt that it's something that I do, and not something that everyone does.

So how to I feel about AS? I love it. If you could take away my anxiety disorder though, I'd be grateful forever.

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I'm not trying to put down psychiatry, but a lot of it is hit-and-miss. It's not uncommon for a diagnosis to only be confirmed once it's discovered which drugs you respond to. In part because so many disorders mimic each other and also because a lot of people have more than one disorder. My diagnosis vector was Depression, ADHD, Bipolarism with secondary OCD and then finally AS and AD.

I'm not trying to put down psychiatry, but some psychiatrists pull their diagnosis from their anus.

When I was younger I was diagnosed with ADHD... I don't have ADHD at all and never have. There wasn't anything wrong with me, I just didn't like school.

Well, Social Phobia is the type of AD I was referring to. I did start to develop Panic Disorder which nearly blew up into Agoraphobia, and this is when I finally made the decision to seek psychiatric help (at age 27). Luckily, Christchurch has one of the best Anxiety Disorders Units in the world (Or so I'm told. They still haven't clicked to the fact that they should have placement interviews in the client's home!!! Well, in their defence, they probably want to, but no doubt there are budget constrainsts), so within no time I was placed on an eight-week group CBT course which helped to eliminate the Panic Disorder before it set in. The Social Phobia was far more ingrained into me though, and is probably likely to never go away (though I can control it to a large extent now).

I have read a LOT of material on AS and Bipolarism over the years, and while I've heard of what you describe in the first paragraph from both groups (I do that myself), but what you describe in the second I've only seen attributed to AS. Interesting.

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Yup. Ritalin is a methamphetimine analogue.

Funnily enough, when they put me on it, my sleeping problems went away. It didn't do any of the desired effects however, so they stopped treatment.