u/Lik_1624

I constantly see people writing that men with Asperger’s tend to be interested in science, trains, cars, and the like, whereas girls are into cosmetics, creativity, and clothing. I am a girl with Asperger’s, and my special interests fall into two categories: science (neuroscience, biology, and DNA) and games that challenge the mind (chess, Chinese checkers, Tetris, and Lego). As for creativity—I don’t consider drawing a special interest of mine, though I do enjoy it—but I absolutely adore lions. I’d be interested to hear what others have to say.

I want to smash everything around me; I’m angry and want to scream. My family didn’t want me going to autism support groups, so instead, they took me to *this* place. There were terrible men there who justified all sorts of bad things—alcoholism, drugs, and abuse. They started saying that divorce is bad and that even if a woman is being beaten, it’s her duty to put up with it. I tried to explain things to them, but they kept interrupting me and anyone else who held a different opinion. I am never coming back here.

I'm not happy at all. I'm officially autistic, but people who know about this diagnosis are angry at me, saying that I'm not autistic, that I'm pretending, and that I need to forget. I feel bad. I've had a full examination, all the tests, and more than one doctor, but I'm afraid that they might be right.

Hi, I'm verbal and neurodivergent, but I've always been curious about how nonverbal or semiverbal people live. I'm curious about how you started using it. How did that happen? Have you been nonverbal since childhood? Why don't you talk? Have you ever used it? (Sorry for the rude questions, but I'm genuinely curious.)

I don't know, but I live in a Scandinavian country, and it's getting cold here as autumn approaches, and now when my body senses changes in the weather, I start twitching, and this causes tics. It also happens in the shower when I adjust the water temperature, and I get tics :_

I love different biographies and sciences and I was once talking to a classmate about how Albert Einstein didn't speak until he was 3 and couldn't speak clearly enough until he was 7, to which she said, "Um, that's not my problem." I was confused, well, yes, it's not her problem, but I didn't say that it was her problem. It's weird how other people talk. Sometimes it seems to me that they just say random things without meaning.Sometimes I talk to a guy from a special class. He has autism, but it's less functional, and I feel more comfortable with him. We sometimes play games and I help him. He probably has some developmental delays, but he can speak, but I feel much more comfortable with him. I see the sense in his words and the logic than from people with higher intelligence.

I don't understand how this blanket works and I'm wondering if it helps. Isn't it painful? I don't like being hugged and I think if the blanket constantly presses on me, wouldn't that be bad?

Jeg gjennomgår en autismevurdering i Norge, men jeg er redd diagnosen vil hindre meg i å fullføre VGS eller universitetet og finne en jobb, eller at den rett og slett ikke vil hjelpe meg. Gir det mening å få en diagnose? Hvordan lever personer med autisme (Aspergers syndrom) i Norge? Finnes det noen hjelp med sosiale problemer?

Takk på forhånd for svarene deres. Jeg er ikke norsk, så jeg er interessert i å høre om deres erfaringer.

I feel broken, I'm a teenager and many specialists suspect I have autism since I was 13, but in my country there is terrible information about autism and of course no one helped me, but I moved to another country with my mother and here it is better with this and they are trying to help me. This is not the first year that teachers noticed I have problems, but in the winter I had the most severe sensory overload. I periodically suffer from this and other problems, but my mother is sure that I am not autistic (she also said this when I was assessed for epilepsy and tics lol). Today I had a meeting with the doctor who will conduct the autism assessment. She is very good and tried to explain to my mother that autism is a spectrum, although she behaved more or less well. The only thing she tried to emphasize is that I was normal, but I don’t know. I feel very upset because she said that if someone asks, we go to the doctor because of epilepsy and not autism, and I feel sad because I don’t feel support.

Neste år fullfører jeg 10. klasse, og jeg må begynne på videregående, men det er et problem. Jeg vil begynne på Helse- og oppvekstfag. Selv om jeg bare skal bo i Norge i tre år neste år, har jeg for øyeblikket gjennomsnittlige karakterer, men neste år vil jeg forbedre dem. Problemet mitt er at jeg har epilepsi og tics, og mistenkt Aspergers syndrom. Jeg skal gjennomgå en vurdering, men på grunn av epilepsi er jeg bekymret for at det vil bli vanskelig for meg å studere i en annen by. Kan jeg få hjelp fra Sakkyndig vurdering til å bli prioritert til å studere i byen der jeg bor? Jeg vil ikke være lat eller ikke studere. Nei, jeg vil lære og utvikle meg på egenhånd, men på grunn av epilepsiproblemene mine er jeg redd for å studere langt fra moren min.

Jeg er 16 år gammel. Helsesøsteren på skolen og fastlegen min tror jeg kan være i autismespekteret. PPT-en skrev også en rapport om at jeg har tegn på høytfungerende autisme/Aspergers. Jeg er veldig redd. Diagnosen vil vare hele sommeren, selv om PPT-en sa at jeg ikke har noen intellektuelle funksjonsnedsettelser. Jeg er redd for at HABU-en plutselig vil si at jeg er psykisk utviklingshemmet og ikke vil kunne studere ved VGS Helse. Jeg er veldig bekymret fordi jeg ikke er norsk. Jeg vet ikke hvordan vurderingen for tenåringer vil bli gjennomført. Vil jeg kunne få hjelp med problemene mine? Jeg vet at autisme ikke kan kureres, men kan jeg få noen hjelp fra HABU Har noen erfaring med autismevurdering i Norge som tenåring?

Da jeg var 14 år dro jeg til BUP, og de diagnostiserte meg med en ticmotorforstyrrelse. Jeg lider også av epilepsi, men opplevelsen min der var ikke akkurat god. Han snakket stort sett med moren min og spurte meg ikke så mye om det. Han sa at jeg ikke prøvde hardt nok for å stoppe ticsene mine og tilbød ingen annen terapi.

I feel very angry, I need to choose a subject for school next year, and they are all difficult for my health. One of them is driving. I have not had any attacks for 2 months for the first time, but I don’t know how long I will be in remission, because I have attacks every month several times, and this is one of the reasons why I do not want to get behind the wheel. Secondly, I have a diagnosed tic disorder (it occurs every day, there is no medicine). My tics are aggravated by stress and sometimes they are strong and I am afraid that I simply will not be able to hold the steering wheel in my hands. I am also being assessed for high-functioning autism and I am afraid that I simply will not be able to withstand the loud sounds of sudden car movements and will become hysterical. I feel crushed because my whole family is putting pressure on me that I am making myself “disabled” and amplifying my illnesses, which I am simply afraid of. I feel bad and sad.

I'm more afraid of having an epileptic seizure while driving than anything else. It's easier for me to think that I'll never get behind the wheel, or only after several years of remission, than to ruin someone else's life or my own.