News of Asperger's Syndrome Forum

Hi, I'm a 21 year old male, I have been diagnosed with having Aspergers Syndrome and I'm on 2.5 MG's of Olanzipan (I think that's how it's spelled). My wife thinks I might have something else though, as I'm not sure what I have other than what my psychiatrist says, I was hoping someone could help me. Heres the symptoms I have:

Mood swings.
Depression.
Low self image (I don't think much of myself).
Self ...

My little brother is 12 and his doctor thinks he has AS. He has to do some crazy long test this week to be officially diagnosed. My parents haven't told him any of this; they're telling him "the doctor wants to learn about how you learn" and he has no idea what's going on. My mom forbid my sister and I from telling him. My parents are already convinced that he has AS (after reading ...

I am 17 and I have Asperger's syndrome. (Also suffer depression)

I initially became depressed about three years ago, when I was almost 15. I became extremely paranoid and assumed that planes in the sky were watching me and that someone would kill me or capture me.

I went through this for a while until I started becoming depressed. In 2004 I went on Prozac and started to feel a bit better.

I had been ...

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i am male, 20 years of age and have never drunk a drop of Alcohol in my life, mostly because i am to much of a coward, i feel i am no fun at all and that i have no personality, so does anyone think alcohol helps them interact with people? like makes them more open, improves confidents, makes you more relaxed sort of thing

July 7, a very sad day indeed for any pink floyd fans who've heard the news...of his death. :cry:
Its only recently that I discovered Roger "Syd" Barrett had quit the band in 1968, due to a mental illness...
I know youre wondering whats this got to do with aspergers? We'll...everything! Syd Barrett had Aspergers, or so they say.
I dont think anyone knows ...

My cousin just arrived at the house with two of his friends and my social ineptness is fully on show! There was a music festival near my house but it's been raining heavily and as such they need a place to stay... ...so they're staying here. I'm feeling very anxious and I just don't know what to do. At the moment I've just left them upstairs in a free bedroom and I'm just going to ...

Hey whats your favourite music?
I like anything thats got a fantasy/mystical touch to it.
Trance, not techno. Like delerium/dominion
Metal like blind guardian/iron maiden
Rock like tool/a perfect circle
and pink floyd is definitely my favourite...

Its wierd that i dislike almost all popular music...I often wonder why its so popular...especially rap...You cant spell crap without rap :D

This one is long, sort of like all my personal thoughts about possible symptoms in a post. But I'd appreciate it if I could get some feedback. Maybe this is more me thinking outloud than anything about a revelation I've had since reading about asperger's.

I am 20 years old.

Last night I was reading about Asperger's and I think I might have finally figured out why every single day since I was a kid ...

I was born "different".
As a baby, I would scream whenever I was touched or held & was a lot happier left alone, staring at my mobile above my cot for hours on end. At the age of 2, I started head banging, until bleeding sores appeared on my skull. Whenever a light was turned on, I'd start screaming again. My parents took me to the doctors, fearing I had meningitis, but the tests came ...