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Brain dysfunction + social recluse + logical = autism?

risootser

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I have been diagnosed with aspergers. However after reading a lot about the issue I think I have received misdiagnosis. Here is why:

1 As a small kid and baby I took face contact and laughed with people in communicative manner
2 I developed interest in religion and philosophy as a kid and talked like some sort of prophet.
3 I'm bad at immediate details
4 I have seen visions and had intense religious experiences
5 My interests are about looking a theory and I dislike objects. In fact I really disliked receiving gifts that didn't have informational content or research dimension to them.
6 I liked idea of math but hated counting in numbers. I have done studies in math in uni, tough.
7 I'm pretty OK at natural sciences (not in physics although I have good grades in uni it as well but did worse at high school) and I have graduate degree in chem. I like exploring all sorts of ideas. It is like meaning of my life. I dislike engineering. With help of math I can do physics but I can't understand physics.

I have serious visual issues. I think this might to do with vicinity of temporal lobe. I'm very cloudy headed at times and my head hurts then as well.
At some time due to my lack of visual ability and deaths in my family I became very antagonistic towards human relationships. I attached myself to things such as philosophy of voluntary human extinction and as a result I have no friends. People seem to like me but I push them away. They think I'm interesting, kind and peculiar although some are scared of my intense mental focus.

I have been thinking about Schizotypal personality and it seems to be very good fit.
 
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Welcome to Autism Forums! I do not see my autism as a brain dysfunction, but rather a brain difference. I process information differently than most people. In some ways not as well, in other ways better.
 
Most of those aren't counter-arguments, though.

"Face contact" sounds gross, but there are autistics who don't mind touch, including ones with hyposensitivities. On the other hand, there are no babies who understand that other people are people.

Welcome to the forum.
 
Thanks everyone above.

Welcome to Autism Forums! I do not see my autism as a brain dysfunction, but rather a brain difference. I process information differently than most people. In some ways not as well, in other ways better.

Yeah. That is what I thought too. I have most certainly brain dysfunction starting from eyes affecting brain and I was thinking that it is kind of weird that it gets labelled as autism. Why I have brain dysfunction:
my hands don't always do the stuff mind tells to do
my religious experiences (messiah level) but I knew it belongs to category of delusions since kid.
I fail at visual cognitive test that tests for performance (not raven) because in my case I can not pick the details (when I walk out of the door people see me and do not get why I don't see them... or rather register... because of my brain does not recognize visual details fast enough)
I have very disorganized brain and headaches
 
Thanks everyone above.



Yeah. That is what I thought too. I have most certainly brain dysfunction starting from eyes affecting brain and I was thinking that it is kind of weird that it gets labelled as autism. Why I have brain dysfunction:
my hands don't always do the stuff mind tells to do
my religious experiences (messiah level) but I knew it belongs to category of delusions since kid.
I fail at visual cognitive test that tests for performance (not raven) because in my case I can not pick the details (when I walk out of the door people see me and do not get why I don't see them... or rather register... because of my brain does not recognize visual details fast enough)
I have very disorganized brain and headaches

We are all different, whether we are NT or ND. Consequently, autism effects all of us differently. In that post, I was referring to my self and how autism effects me.

I do not know how old you are, but I believe how autism effects us changes as you age and sometimes for the better. That is how it was for me. I hope that things get better for you. Good luck.
 
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We are all different, whether we are NT or ND. Consequently, autism effects all of us differently. In that post, I was referring to my self and how autism effects me.

I do not know how old you are, but I believe how autism effects us changes as you age and sometimes for the better. That is how it was for me. I hope that things get better for you. Good luck.

Thanks my life so far:
Like a roller coaster ride:
Super social and experimental till turned to 4 and I became darker and started holding my boundaries bit too much and rejected social circles. I didn't like when parents told me what to eat so I crafted my own rules which were quite insane. Took couple of years and then I made few friends. When my family moved and mother died I decided to become recluse. I wanted to show to others that I can survive alone and managed to do it over one decade. Some people think that I have lots of friends when they see me first. Then I tell them that I find life meaningless because as long as I can remember (around 5 or so) thinking that I was practically dead because multiplying my age just by 20 would result over 100. I think I resemble pro social version of Joker from Batman. I have lots of problems with nihilism.
 
Schizotypal? I have that along with aspergers and adhd. Officially dignosed.
Interesting! Schizotypy has cognitive disorganization that might lead to different ways of processing information which tics boxes in ADHD side of things as well (if we look at at symptom box). When I read about schizotypy I was relieved it of it being something that seems to find the reasons to my experiences.

I'm quite big on finding cause that determines symptoms not symptoms that defines diagnoses. Whatever floats your boats. Psychiatry and neurology has a long way to go!
 
Interesting! Schizotypy has cognitive disorganization that might lead to different ways of processing information which tics boxes in ADHD side of things as well (if we look at at symptom box). When I read about schizotypy I was relieved it of it being something that seems to find the reasons to my experiences.

I'm quite big on finding cause that determines symptoms not symptoms that defines diagnoses. Whatever floats your boats. Psychiatry and neurology has a long way to go!

Experiences?
 
Experiences?
Schizotypal experiences. The days when you almost go nuts. :p OK, it can be bit too forthcoming..

For me
One day I thought that some sort force was controlling us and other higher form was controlling that force and another set of force was...
Or when I thought that my mother was not real but hired by...

I got lots of those experiences but I just say nah immediately...
 
Schizotypal experiences. The days when you almost go nuts. :p OK, it can be bit too forthcoming..

For me
One day I thought that some sort force was controlling us and other higher form was controlling that force and another set of force was...
Or when I thought that my mother was not real but hired by...

I got lots of those experiences but I just say nah immediately...

You could use them to make a good book.
Almost went insane three times over the years. The last time it took six months to recover mentally.
 
Didn't realise nihilism orginates from Russia. @Wolf Prince Learned something new. So am a realist or pessimist if l believe this? Is my glass half full with nothing, and l am a optimist?
 

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