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> Any aspies on r9k?

you haven't been here for too long, right?

>>760769
Yep, you're right.
What are you trying to tell me by that though? That there really are many or the opposite?

Reporting.

I like movies, I guess

What about you, OP? What's your thing?

>>760790
yup... definitely an aspie

>>760769
I never saw a post on /r9k/ that seemed made by someone with AS to me.

I am. But /r9k/ is a bad place to talk about it as there are people here who don't like aspies as well as aspies here who are total assholes, plus many others who place all over the autistic spectrum.

Basically, you should probably brace for incoming hate, but there's a chance of us having a good discussion here.

Anyway, I'm quite high-functioning myself. My current favorite thing that I am sinking a lot of time into is reading A Song of Ice and Fire, which I am enjoying immensely, but my other favorite things are pokemon and drawing/writing (though I am terrible at both).

>>760806
My passion is actually Maths, Physics and Computer Science. If I could do one of those things for the rest of my life, I would. I'm too fucking lazy though, I'm always wasting my time and I can't even recall a recent even where I did something productive.

>>760790
/r9k/ is the ultimate aspie-paradise. you will like it here.

>>760830
Thanks a lot for informing me but I didn't know in which section such a thread would be appropriate, so I just took my chance.
And I'm high functioning too, people who aren't close to me can't tell me if I'm an Aspie but it still influences my whole life greatly, some times positively but most of the time negatively.

>>760860
> people who aren't close to me can't tell me if I'm an Aspie

all aspies believe this

protip; we can

>>760860
Most people can't tell that I have it until they get to know me, but no one's ever been impolite enough to ask so I don't usually bring it up unless I've known the people for a while and it's topic relevant.

There really is quite a lot of hate towards apies out there and in truth, I can't blame people too badly since the only aspies they're familiar with are the ones on television who are jerks (Abed from Community being the exception to this rule) and the ones in their schools who they see as loud and annoying and disruptive. It is beneficial to be able to keep one's autism to oneself.

Bumping the thread for more responses.

>>760906
Not OP, but if you were my friend I'd ask you to tell me every time I do something wrong so I can fix it in the future. I just want to be normal.

>>760909
i dont look down on aspies and will always give them a chance before judging them... but rest assured its very easy to tell no matter how high functioning you are. not that i would ever mention it to them, its kinda like staring at someones mole, i dont point out their aspie-ness

Sorry for being a moron here, but, I've never been clinically tested to be an aspie because my parents hold this image that all their children are perfect, is there any legitimate online test I can take to verify it myself? Keyword is "legitimate."

Aspie master race reporting in.

>favorite type of music is jazz, it's the only music I listen to except some electronic
>I wear the same grey sweat shirt every day (aspies usually wear brown and gray hoodies)
>play vidya all day. my favorite games are RPGs and sandboxes but I don't have a specific favorite game
>I fucking love algebra and organic chemistry
>regularly visit /r9k/ and /sci/

>>760942
Really though, I try my hardest to not be "that person" that everyone hates because they rant about their favorite things or waste peoples' time. I don't want to be a weight on other people just because I'm weird, I just want to be normal.

>>760917
its not that you do something wrong, in fact most aspies i've met have been very polite. its just the way you conduct yourself. it just cant be helped but most people wont judge you on that unless your hanging around total dickwads

>>760958
>self diagnosing with online tests
>"legitimate"

Aspergers is FAKE and NOT REAL. It is a MYTH for LOSERS TO PUT THEIR FAITH IN.

>>760909
>keep one's autism to oneself

I chuckled.

>>760958
No. You must speak to a medical professional about this. I took multiple tests with multiple psychiatrists to be certain, the diagnosis process was hard because each doctor had to get to know me and ask me a lot of questions and stuff, it is NOT the sort of thing you can figure out online.

If you're on this site, you'd better be old enough to get yourself a doctor without your parents.

>>760977
I don't really have a choice.
I'll take it as no.

>>760998
How old are you that you rely on your mother and father to take you to a psychiatrist?

>>760995
I'm a university student who has no job and is living in an apartment paid for by my parents who also give me a small allowance for eating money. I don't think getting tested would be free.

I think I might have aspergers. My entire family thinks I do, and I fit the bill in a lot of ways.

Maybe I'm just a social recluse though. I go out once in awhile when I have the opportunity, but that's not very often since I don't drive. When I've told friends my suspicions they always say I definitely don't seem like it, but maybe that's because whenever I do anything social I rely on weed/alcohol and some other drugs on occasion to help loosen me up.

Maybe if I made an effort to better my life things would change. I don't know why I feel utterly unable to. Maybe it's the aspergers, maybe it's depression, maybe it's one of the dozens of other mental disorders I've looked up. And maybe I'm just fucking lazy.

>>761034
>Maybe it's the aspergers
not real, totally fake, etc

I post on 4chan and play video games. Sometimes, I read books.

>>761033
I see. You probably have a counselling center somewhere on campus that's free for students? Chances are they won't have psychiatrists, but you can start talking to them about how to get diagnosed with it, they might know a way to help you.

You could ask the same thing of your medical doctor next time you have a check up, talk to him/her about maybe finding a free clinic somewhere that could help you.

>>761034
What you have described doesn't sound like Asperger's, but if you really think you might have it, it is worth your money to see a psychiatrist about it.

>>760995
>it is NOT the sort of thing you can figure out online

Nonsense. I am very knowledgeable about a certain small platform game (and while my interest in it peaked, I hardly played other games), used to enjoy writing in PHP, have aa favourite shirt and trousers in which I'd preferably go out all the time, and used to be un-social as in no partying, no drinking, and no friends, and yet I had no problems not diagnosing myself with AS.

>>761074
Will any of that show up in a record? I'm the type who hates taking mind-altering, chemical-imbalancing drugs and if there is a way my parents would figure out, they'd probably want to try experimenting to see if it'd keep me from being a shut-in and actually having a physical social life instead of a virtual one.

I have full blown autism, not Asperger's, but my interests are:

- Video game perfectionism accompanied by ASMR audio
- Writing fiction
- Physics

If any of you want an internet diagnosis from a guy who knows more about autism than the typical psychologist does (I've spent a lot of time with retarded, sick, and disabled people in my life, at various special schools and whatnot), list your suspected symptoms (without consulting the internet) and I'll tell you what I think. Just ignore the quick-to-anger people who believe that modern psychologists actually learned about autism and Asperger's in college, and didn't just hear about it two weeks ago because of FOX News.

>>761106
You will have to ask the people at your school about counselling records (like when you go and such) being available, but if you are seeing psychiatrist/psychologist/doctor they will be bound by doctor/patient confidentiality and will not talk to your parents about your discussions.

Chances are you will not be given any medication unless you have other problems. You can't really medicate autism, you have to medicate things like anxiety and depression. Also, if you're an adult you can't be compelled to take anything.

>>761090
Well shit, if that's all it takes to realize you're an aspie, then I fit perfectly. That is if you're not saying with exaggeration that is.

>>761156
That person was making fun of people who self-diagnose.

I really wonder how many people actually have a real case of assburgers since we have been getting so many self/misdiagnosed faggots.

It is a neurological problem and usually come with another neulogical issue as well, for instance along with asperger i have tourette too (nothing as extreme as the tourettes guy assuming that was even real but ticks DO exist and made me suffer in my childhood).

So from someone with a genuine case: fuck you. All of you who ''think'' you may be autistic only make matters worse for those of us who actually have it (and i am willing to be the people who DO have it amount only to 3% of the actual population).

>>761175

Actually screw that, 3% is too big of a percentage make it 1-2%.

>>761147
Thank you sir.
This is why I like r9k over other boards, I feel actually informed.
It looks like I have to get on the road now. I hate family trips.

>>761200
The statistic that I have seen on billboards in my area is that 1 in 112 children are diagnosed now with autism.

Of course diagnosis doesn't always mean they have it, and it's possible to have it and not be diagnosed, so that number's a little iffy.

I was diagnosed with Aspergers ages ago but I've been learning social queues and what not to say or do.

My interests include:
- Books (writing and reading)
- Art and Photography (creating and admiring)
- Body alterations (like piercings and tattoos)
- Philosophy and various thereon within.

>>761175
I do have anxiety problems, I can't speak publicly for shit, it doesn't even have to be a big group, I use to have depression problems but those turned into more of into murderous temptations as I learned to hate others more than myself.
But those could be blamed on other things, that is why I am so unsure about being an Aspie.

>>761228
>Body alterations (like piercings and tattoos)

Interesting! I have a weird response to stuff like that, for the longest time I was absolutely terrified of people with facial piercings, it made it a thousand times more difficult to recognize people let alone communicate. What draws you to them? I'm curious now.

>>761254

Then chances are you do not have it. Better to rule out all other possibilities and as a last resort get go to a doctor to diagnose you. Diagnosis at your age might be difficult however and its best to not get just one (assuming your diagnosis is positive that you have it).

But like i said you barely ''qualify'' with all that so your problem lies elsewhere.

>>761270
Huh! I used to be terrified myself, but I suppose the fear drove curiosity now I have a few piercings (eyebrow, cartilage, lips). I suppose it's the history of piercings and tattoos and how bizzare that are, how adding metal to pieces of skin is considered a fashion statement. I guess it's the bizzarity of it!

>>761349
Huh, I guess I can see that. Thanks for explaining.

>>760906

That's why I said people who aren't close to me don't notice it, because I usually can't have a proper conversation with a person not close to me, they therefore can't know it.

>>761421
But they would have noticed from back when they weren't close to you.

op should have said clinically diagnosed aspies only in his post, so many self diagnosed fags
youre not fucking aspergers because youre antisocial

>That feel when you can tell if a robot is aspergic by his shitty english language skills and awkward use of vocabulary.

>>761200

It's actually less than 1% for Asperger's.

>>761520
At least the people here who aren't diagnosed were up front about it and asked for advice.

>>761696
Most aspies I've met are actually pretty good at using English properly.

>>761696
What are you talking about? Most Aspies I know have good grammar, better than the general population in my experience.

I was told I had a mild form of asperger about 2 years ago by my psychiatrist, not because I actually have it but because my mother couldn't accept the fact that I failed at school without being able to blame it on some kind of disease or disorder.
rather than our miserable situation at home or her parenting.

>>761696
>that feel when you have asperger's but you're still the best student in your English class
Feels pretty good, actually.

>>761867
Asperger's doesn't influence your school success anyway, why would you think that?

>>761867
That was enormously irresponsible of your psychiatrist to lie to you.

>>761931

I don't but my mother can never except the fact that one of her children failed at something, except when it is something they can't do anything about.

>be now
>be 15 & grade 10
>assburgers professionally diagnosed when I was 6
>make fun of aspergers, and autism in general
>93% average
>girlfriend
>good social skills
>generally good person to be around
>racist to a degree
>sexist to a degree

>turned out fine. sorta

How do I get a doctor to diagnose me with assburgers? I want a legit medical reason to be socially retarded.

>>761972

You can sweeten your 'socially approved' existence with all the norms and acceptable traits, but deep down you know there's a deep and black hole in your heart and you'll always be a horrible person.

>>761933
>irresponsible
>psychiatrist

and you expected otherwise?

>>761930
I think that this is to be expected, since the way we talk is highly grammatical, and thus appropriate in academic contexts, but is sufficiently distinct from the vernacular that it is perceived as awkward in social contexts.

>>762076

I'm >>761972

nice thesaurus faggot

>>762076
>mfw that's probably how you speak to your peers

>>762097
This is the way I speak in my head naturally; most of the time, I have to make a conscious effort to speak using simpler words and shorter sentences. I exaggerated it a bit for effect, but it's not far off.

>>762094
No, I just know more than a few big words.

>>762097
Eh, I'd like to speak like that. Ideally, I'd want my everyday speech to use literary vocabulary and syntax, partly to prove that the latter can be used casually, without sounding pretentious.

>that feel when you have aspirations that coincide with how AS is apparently often seen, but you don't have it ;_;

>>762076
I have an aspie brother. He uses big words but doesn't use them correctly - I want to punch him in the mouth when he does that. Stupid fucker.

>>762048
Shit yes I did. I was fortunate as a child to have a mother and father who were willing to pay a lot of money to make sure that we didn't get me a bad doctor.

>>761954
But how does that relate to Asperger's? Asperger's doesn't influence your school grades in any shape or form.

>>762185

Oh please. Simply because you can't vernacular the barony of iridescent literature doesn't mean you should expect others not to be able to fathom the zenith of the English conundrum. Betwixt your archaic dialect and my superior intellect beget the advent of a learning experience that you may one day encounter should you venture to seek it, you tebowing pseudo-intellectual antidisestablishmentarianist.

>>761931

You really can't be so clueless.

>>762214
Ummm yes it can. My 8 year old sister has aspergers. If you cant control yourself and concentrate in class your grades will be effected of course. In school she gets penalized for being disruptive so less time working on her schoolwork.

>>762221
I didn't say I didn't understand the words he uses - or the words you use. I do. He just uses them incorrectly.

My bro is an aspie.

It's pretty easy to tell if you have it or not when you know someone with it.

>>762221
God your grammar is so abysmal it makes me want to hang myself.

You sir, are the psuedo-intellectual

>>762221

Is this a joke? Do people actually talk like this in everyday life? Language was created to make the transfer of communication EASIER, it's not a dickwaving contest. Big words for the sake of big words is bad and you should feel bad.

>>762214
Of course it does.
I for example have a real hard time with subjects I don't find interesting or like, and it's not the dislike that everyone else has where they will force themselves through it, I will literally not do my work and then have a mental breakdown the day before it' s due.
Also, if I'm in class and I'm having a boring subject I am sooo easily distracted it's not even funny, and my brain thinks it's a great time to turn to mush so I literally won't understand anything of what I'm reading, even if it's easy as fuck.
>What does this has to do with asperger?
>Concentrated interests man, no space left for anything else
_________________________________
>inb4 you suck at explaining
I know I do ;_;

>>762421
OP here. Holy shit dude, I feel you, same thing happens to me in every project.
I know that feel and hate it and you explained it well.

>>762401

This is >>762076

That guy is a troll, but I find it much easier to obtain and disseminate information reading and writing/speaking the way I do. I don't use big words for their own sake, but they help convey things more clearly and with less ambiguity.

>>760834

That's me to the letter.