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Anyone else, before they figured out Asperger's, find that the only person they could relate to was Spock?

Hi everyone I am so glad to find the website.

I think I am currently in an unhealth and maybe verbally abusive relationship with my mother.

She has some mental and physical health problems.

I with with my mother, father, brother 5 years old, and sister 16 years old. I am 22 years old.

Her mood change rapidly in a hurry, and then she use bad words, and she very hurtfully things.

Besides that she ...

So I have just read an article about why sensible people reject the truth, Living in Denial: Why Sensible People Reject The Truth. Creation, global warming, vaccines, da, da, da. It occurred to me is there diagnosis in the DMIV that include this? Denial, I mean. It's included in addiction in a confined sense, what else. In defiance of Science some people rely on anecdotal (twisted) evidence, So really, what is "normal"? Because I think ...

I am suffering, i know it is BDD. i can't leave my house because of my face. I cannot even attend doctor appointments because i will have a serious panic attack when outside. How can i get help, i can't leave my house my psychiatrist doesn't understand.

Also what is wrong with my brain that is causing me to interpret my looks this way. Please explain scientifically and whatever other way. I need to learn ...

I suffer with high Anxiety and Panic attacks at what appear to my family and friends and really minor incidents. A few examples below

* If someone sits in my chair in the living room
* If someone grabs my wrists
* If someone is on a diet and eats something that goes against it
* People talking about their excitement of food
* If I arrange a time to do something and its late ...

This topic may sound a bit alcaholic??

I use alcahol to enter in to uncomfortable Social Situations as it takes away all my Aspergers Symptoms. Does anyone else find this? My friends even say they like me better when I have had a drink down me.. :?

I'm a handsome 30 year old male with a very successful career behind me. I am arguably the youngest in my position throughout the European industry I work in, and am considered to have great potential for the future.

I am fully aware (secretly) that I have a problem however.

I am a compulsive liar. I am regularly very defensive when challenged, struggle to keep my emotions in check and am never satisfied...constantly looking for ...

I would really like to know what the benefits of an Aspergers Diagnosis are for an Adult. I am a highly successful Bank Manager and I am confident in saying I am 99.9% sure that I too have Aspergers. I could list the traits I have but you have heard them before so I shall save my fingers! I managed to successfully diagnose my 6 year old nephew with Aspergers who this week had a ...

Hey Guys I'm James!,
I have been very interested in Aspergers for many years after watching a program on TV that was someone I thought was very much like me. I have never been diagnosed with Aspergers nor will I ever go to a doctor for an official diagnosis as I am not sure I need the label on my medical record as for the last 30 years I have managed without it. However it ...

hello im posting because Vitya,Rozalina,and our original Victoria told me i should talk to some people here and that u guys will help me if i need it

im Victorias newest alter Mai im really shy and am really nervous about even posting this i was 'made' when her adoptive parents started to emotionally abuse her and she'd cry herself to sleep everynight she couldnt handle all the stress it was putting on her and ...