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I'm pretty sure there is something "wrong " with my son. From day 1 I thought there way. He used to twist his hands constantly, from 4 weeks old until he could walk around 2. He never looked at us, never sat up until 10 months, walked at 2, commando crawled at 14 months.
He learnt a few words then "forgot" them, and became mute. Ended up in speech therapy and learnt sign language. He ...

I have often been told I am slightly off in the way I present myself and deal with social interactions. When I was a child I had no real friends and no friendship skills, but at 11 I decided I desperately wanted friendship and caring relationships in my life.

It feels as though ever since I made the commitment to find friends, it has been an uphill struggle, (with rewarding successes along the way) to ...

Well, for the first time in my 31 years, I received a jury summons in the mail. How convenient is it that it happened to be the day before an appointment with my psychiatrist? I showed it to her, and she said that the office can complete a copy that permanently excuses me from jury duty. Yes! :D

How do I know if I have High Functioning Autism or not?

I am constantly described as introspective by my therapists, and intelligent(iq 120ish).
So although you arnt suppose to self diagnose, I have to pretty much.

I think I have BPD which went undiagnosed for 10 years after seeing 20 professionals "oh some might say you are cluster C". yea yea.

So anyway I am pretty low functioning compared to my peers, I took an online Autism test and I came back as likely.

I saw ...

There are 2 disorders I have a strong interest in, I wanted to read about them at an advanced level before my degree starts next year. I know this is a support forum, but I would appreciate any recommendations, thanks guys!

I mean, I want to do something to help.. if I am not cut out to be a therapist I would like to eventually do research into more effective treatment for the harder to ...

I was diagnosed with high-functioning Autism at about 12 after an intensive personality inventory and IQ test, but nobody ever told me what that meant, what to expect, or what to do about it (also have SPD, schizoaffective bipolar type 2, and ADD), and I'm now 37 and NEED to find any kind of heatlhcare that can help me with this stuff. I've tried every way I can, none of my many doctors have ever ...

I was wondering if anyone here has either taken or administered the GADS or the Social Responsiveness Scale - 2. I just picked up my assessment results today and here's what it says:

GADS:
ASD Quotient of 82 (high/probable range of displaying behaviors and symptomatology of those diagnosed with Asperger's.
Significant difficulties with cognitive patterns and pragmatic skills.
Restricted patterns of behavior were less impaired, relative strength was in the are of social interaction.

SRS ...

Hello I've been seeing a counselor for a while and he was a counsel for 25 or 30 years now I'm seeing a woman because he left and went to work somewhere else I saw her for the first time a few days ago she had me to update information and she asked me if I had ever been tested for autism she said she noticed some autistic traits they are treating me for depressive ...

Hello!

I am writing from my little corner of Northern Europe.
My 9 yrs old boy just received a Neuropsychiatric diagnostic and I try to make sense of what it really means.

Diagnostic: DMS-IV 299.80 F84.9

He also did a "WISC-IV" test and got the following results:

General Ability Index: 70 perc. 102-113
Verbal function : 45 perc. 91-105
Perception* function: 90 perc. 110-125
Working memory*: 27 perc. 84-99
Speed* : 27 perc 83-101

*own ...