health Who is autistic?

[Ganondorf8 11,118]

I got diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome back during my first year of high-school nineteen years ago. Since then, I've lead a decent life though I've seen been afflicted by other conditions that don't relate to my original diagnosis. The only thing my mental disability has done against me is prevent me from being able to live on my own.

[Techno Universal 2,575]

This is actually something I'am really worried about right now, like I earlier had interest in anime, drawing manga and stuff (I basically was one of these horrible weebs >_<) but fortunaly I dropped that and now I'am interested in chemistry, which is actually something quite useful, so losing my interest in that would be really shit and I hope it never happens. I mean I'am also into this MLP thing, but that's something where I actually hope to lose interest in at some point and move on.

 

I kinda waited for you comment, because I already read through your profile ^-^

Anyway, unlike you, I didn't put that on my profile because I honestly don't really see it as a positive thing, I mean sure, it has a few positive aspect, and there are way worse mental disorders, but overall, I still would get rid of my autism if that would be possible.

What's amazing about me is that now my thinking has developed into a computer/binery based file system. I'm now think of myself as a computerised person that is a lot more advanced than anyone else. But still at this point my permanent interests have been set as MLP, animals, all forms of transportation, computers and universal/quantum physics. I currently do have a theory about the universal binary system been existent and how the system works. If it's true then we could become a inter universal race.

[Victoria Sponge 1,014]

I've sometimes wondered if I am purely because of how socially awkward I am...

[Anneal 2,194]

I've sometimes wondered if I am purely because of how socially awkward I am...

Yeah, but being socially awkward and having Aspergers are two different things. If you think you have it you can always go find a professional to make a proper diagnosis. Don't try to self-diagnose or people would just see you as a special snowflake.

[Victoria Sponge 1,014]

Yeah, but being socially awkward and having Aspergers are two different things. If you think you have it you can always go find a professional to make a proper diagnosis. Don't try to self-diagnose or people would just see you as a special snowflake.

I'm aware of this, it's just something that crosses my mind from time to time.

Edited January 14, 2017 by Battenberg

[Buttonmash1973 1,024]

I have been diagnosed with autism.

[Photon Jet 5,489]

I have a condition called autistic spectrum disorder. Plus, I have a disability which prevents me from filtering any sound or thoughts coming to my head. Still, there is nothing wrong with autism in any way.

[Faerie-StarV 46]

I have one myself. My dad's side of the family also have them so I was the unfortunate person to inherit that gene. I think I was diagnosed at either two or four years old(I'll have to ask mom since she may know).

 

I never like having it because it caused me hell for me. Being forced to mainstream with other students who don't have them is a real struggle for me. Keep in mind, this was in early 90's so there was no schools for kids with Autism and if you lived in that era where you have it, tough titties for you. You either have to be mainstreamed or go to their crappy schools where they just dump the rest of the kids who have behavioral problems(which they get no help at all).

 

School was hell for me. I was always behind school work, being forced 90% staying inside for recess, doing school work in summer(I was three years behind my classmates), being forced to get straight A's from my mother's boyfriend(I get mostly C's, D's, and even F's), and being dragged around to see a different therapists. As a kid, I would get silently get upset and jealous at my classmates because they always seemed to memorized stuff or solve them or understand the subjects easily where for me, it's a struggle. It also didn't help that I have 'Rush rush rush, memorize pointless crap, spit it out for test and forget about it, and compete one another to get the highest grade and honor roll! Don't bother to understand the subjects and why it's important for the future!' bullshit thrown at me. I hated being rushed because it puts me too much pressure and causes me to have stress and melt down. I would get in homework fights with my parents because I couldn't understand a simple problems and would get punished for it. I ended up hating school and even learning so I just gave up and didn't even bother because what's the point? I'm gonna fail no matter what I do so fuck it.

 

And don't even get me started on social issues. I could write a book about it since it's pretty long so I won't write it out.

 

The point is, I hate having Autism and don't see it as a blessing, I see it as a curse. No offense to others who see it as a blessing, if you thought it that way, that is great. But for me, I hated it and always will be. This is why I chose to get myself sterilized because I don't want my kid to inherit it and not go through hell like I did. I also don't like the school system we have and I don't want to deal with homework crap(I hated homework as a kid and been doing it all throughout my childhood). I'm finally free from it and last thing I need is to repeat it again with my kid. I don't want to relearn the stuff that I forgot twenty years ago.

 

I feel like if I didn't have Autism, my childhood would have been more pleasant and I probably would be able to do other things or being hired at other jobs.

 

Sorry for my long rant. I just wanted to get it out in the open of how I feel about me having it and now I felt better.

[Br O N Y Kitty 107]

I have one myself. My dad's side of the family also have them so I was the unfortunate person to inherit that gene. I think I was diagnosed at either two or four years old(I'll have to ask mom since she may know).

 

I never like having it because it caused me hell for me. Being forced to mainstream with other students who don't have them is a real struggle for me. Keep in mind, this was in early 90's so there was no schools for kids with Autism and if you lived in that era where you have it, tough titties for you. You either have to be mainstreamed or go to their crappy schools where they just dump the rest of the kids who have behavioral problems(which they get no help at all).

 

School was hell for me. I was always behind school work, being forced 90% staying inside for recess, doing school work in summer(I was three years behind my classmates), being forced to get straight A's from my mother's boyfriend(I get mostly C's, D's, and even F's), and being dragged around to see a different therapists. As a kid, I would get silently get upset and jealous at my classmates because they always seemed to memorized stuff or solve them or understand the subjects easily where for me, it's a struggle. It also didn't help that I have 'Rush rush rush, memorize pointless crap, spit it out for test and forget about it, and compete one another to get the highest grade and honor roll! Don't bother to understand the subjects and why it's important for the future!' bullshit thrown at me. I hated being rushed because it puts me too much pressure and causes me to have stress and melt down. I would get in homework fights with my parents because I couldn't understand a simple problems and would get punished for it. I ended up hating school and even learning so I just gave up and didn't even bother because what's the point? I'm gonna fail no matter what I do so fuck it.

 

And don't even get me started on social issues. I could write a book about it since it's pretty long so I won't write it out.

 

The point is, I hate having Autism and don't see it as a blessing, I see it as a curse. No offense to others who see it as a blessing, if you thought it that way, that is great. But for me, I hated it and always will be. This is why I chose to get myself sterilized because I don't want my kid to inherit it and not go through hell like I did. I also don't like the school system we have and I don't want to deal with homework crap(I hated homework as a kid and been doing it all throughout my childhood). I'm finally free from it and last thing I need is to repeat it again with my kid. I don't want to relearn the stuff that I forgot twenty years ago.

 

I feel like if I didn't have Autism, my childhood would have been more pleasant and I probably would be able to do other things or being hired at other jobs.

 

Sorry for my long rant. I just wanted to get it out in the open of how I feel about me having it and now I felt better.

I'am really happy that you took the time to write such a long comment. ^-^ And I'am really sorry for what you had to go through, I'am actually quite lucky, because I was barely bullied in middle school, and now in my high school no one would mock you for something like that, people who would do that would be considerd stupid. But it's defintly not a blessing, I mean it has a few good things, but in my opinion, it's overall a rather bad thing.

I just looked through the life advise section and there is a 15 year old guy who goes through a similar thing then you did, maybe you could give him some support <3

https://mlpforums.com/topic/162298-i-dont-have-the-least-bit-of-motivation-to-keep-studying-and-im-frickin-16/

I think he really could need some help from someone like you.

[honk friend 1,972]

Probably nowhere near 90% of the members here are autistic, but probably I'd assume our community has at least a good 10x higher percentage of members in the autism spectrum than the percentage of the world population. Now I could offer up a reason why I think this is, being that autistic children and adults are more heavily influenced by cartoons like MLP... But anyways...

ONLY 2%? On THIS forum? That's VERY generous considering all the people I see here who are incredibly open about their autism.

I'd say at LEAST 20% of the community here is autistic.

[Twiggy 2,965]

I'm not sure actually. As a kid, I was diagnosed with Aspergers, and I definitely fit the bill. I was obsessive over little things, I isolated myself socially, and when I did have to interact with people, I spilled enough spaghetti to compete with the entire pasta market of Italy.

 

However, as I got older, I got better at socializing, and now I hold a leadership position in my job that I excel at. I can still do the obsession thing, but it's not as bad as it used to be.

 

Is it possible to grow out of it?

[Corgis 574]

I'm not sure actually. As a kid, I was diagnosed with Aspergers, and I definitely fit the bill. I was obsessive over little things, I isolated myself socially, and when I did have to interact with people, I spilled enough spaghetti to compete with the entire pasta market of Italy.

 

However, as I got older, I got better at socializing, and now I hold a leadership position in my job that I excel at. I can still do the obsession thing, but it's not as bad as it used to be.

 

Is it possible to grow out of it?

 

Well as you get older your social skills can improve to the point were it is hard to notice anymore.  So yea it's possible that you have just improved enough to the point were you are not affected much by it anymore.  That is what I have heard anyways.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,809]

I have aspergers. I'm high functioning though...

[Johnny1226 14,674]

I have asperger syndrome which gives me a spectrum of different disabilitys including obsessiveness about certain things memory problems, social disorders and so on

[Nerdy Luigi 2,064]

ONLY 2%? On THIS forum? That's VERY generous considering all the people I see here who are incredibly open about their autism.

I'd say at LEAST 20% of the community here is autistic.

 

Okay 2% is a pretty low estimate (really low considering how autistic the brony community in general is (No offense, after all I wouldn't want to offend myself either)), but 20+% sounds a bit insane, even for here. I'd be more inclined to estimate 10 or 15%, with the fact Autism only occurs in about 1-1.5% of the general population [1 in every 68] (source: Autism-society.org).

[Techno Universal 2,575]

I have one myself. My dad's side of the family also have them so I was the unfortunate person to inherit that gene. I think I was diagnosed at either two or four years old(I'll have to ask mom since she may know).

 

I never like having it because it caused me hell for me. Being forced to mainstream with other students who don't have them is a real struggle for me. Keep in mind, this was in early 90's so there was no schools for kids with Autism and if you lived in that era where you have it, tough titties for you. You either have to be mainstreamed or go to their crappy schools where they just dump the rest of the kids who have behavioral problems(which they get no help at all).

 

School was hell for me. I was always behind school work, being forced 90% staying inside for recess, doing school work in summer(I was three years behind my classmates), being forced to get straight A's from my mother's boyfriend(I get mostly C's, D's, and even F's), and being dragged around to see a different therapists. As a kid, I would get silently get upset and jealous at my classmates because they always seemed to memorized stuff or solve them or understand the subjects easily where for me, it's a struggle. It also didn't help that I have 'Rush rush rush, memorize pointless crap, spit it out for test and forget about it, and compete one another to get the highest grade and honor roll! Don't bother to understand the subjects and why it's important for the future!' bullshit thrown at me. I hated being rushed because it puts me too much pressure and causes me to have stress and melt down. I would get in homework fights with my parents because I couldn't understand a simple problems and would get punished for it. I ended up hating school and even learning so I just gave up and didn't even bother because what's the point? I'm gonna fail no matter what I do so fuck it.

 

And don't even get me started on social issues. I could write a book about it since it's pretty long so I won't write it out.

 

The point is, I hate having Autism and don't see it as a blessing, I see it as a curse. No offense to others who see it as a blessing, if you thought it that way, that is great. But for me, I hated it and always will be. This is why I chose to get myself sterilized because I don't want my kid to inherit it and not go through hell like I did. I also don't like the school system we have and I don't want to deal with homework crap(I hated homework as a kid and been doing it all throughout my childhood). I'm finally free from it and last thing I need is to repeat it again with my kid. I don't want to relearn the stuff that I forgot twenty years ago.

 

I feel like if I didn't have Autism, my childhood would have been more pleasant and I probably would be able to do other things or being hired at other jobs.

 

Sorry for my long rant. I just wanted to get it out in the open of how I feel about me having it and now I felt better.

To be honest I had a very similar experience aswel when I was in mainstream schools for all of primary school and the first year of high school. I still did struggle a lot even though I was lucky enough to be on a special needs integration program and when I was at high school there were 12 other students in the same program that I got to know quite well and one of them was in my main class group. Ad least they were able to diagnose me with autism when I was only one and a half years old. My parents apparently noticed something suspicious with me and really got on to the problem and took me to the specialists to try and find the issue. I actually got the same marks as you in primary school but I strangely started to improve in high school even though I was struggling with the homework as I was starting to get occasional B's and even I remember getting two A's. But now I'm in a special needs private school that is specifically designed for people like me. My friends there also have the same type of autism as me so we really get to understand each other there. Even one of them is an old friend from my primary school and he's a year younger than me plus his autism isn't quite as bad as mine. I think the reson why I'm improving is because of my neurological systems developing to try and bypass certain sections of my autism.

[Nerdy Luigi 2,064]

I never like having it because it caused me hell for me. Being forced to mainstream with other students who don't have them is a real struggle for me. Keep in mind, this was in early 90's so there was no schools for kids with Autism and if you lived in that era where you have it, tough titties for you. You either have to be mainstreamed or go to their crappy schools where they just dump the rest of the kids who have behavioral problems(which they get no help at all).

 

School was hell for me. I was always behind school work, being forced 90% staying inside for recess, doing school work in summer(I was three years behind my classmates), being forced to get straight A's from my mother's boyfriend(I get mostly C's, D's, and even F's), and being dragged around to see a different therapists. As a kid, I would get silently get upset and jealous at my classmates because they always seemed to memorized stuff or solve them or understand the subjects easily where for me, it's a struggle. It also didn't help that I have 'Rush rush rush, memorize pointless crap, spit it out for test and forget about it, and compete one another to get the highest grade and honor roll! Don't bother to understand the subjects and why it's important for the future!' bullshit thrown at me. I hated being rushed because it puts me too much pressure and causes me to have stress and melt down. I would get in homework fights with my parents because I couldn't understand a simple problems and would get punished for it. I ended up hating school and even learning so I just gave up and didn't even bother because what's the point? I'm gonna fail no matter what I do so fuck it.

 

And don't even get me started on social issues. I could write a book about it since it's pretty long so I won't write it out.

 

The point is, I hate having Autism and don't see it as a blessing, I see it as a curse. No offense to others who see it as a blessing, if you thought it that way, that is great. But for me, I hated it and always will be. This is why I chose to get myself sterilized because I don't want my kid to inherit it and not go through hell like I did. I also don't like the school system we have and I don't want to deal with homework crap(I hated homework as a kid and been doing it all throughout my childhood). I'm finally free from it and last thing I need is to repeat it again with my kid. I don't want to relearn the stuff that I forgot twenty years ago.

 

I feel like if I didn't have Autism, my childhood would have been more pleasant and I probably would be able to do other things or being hired at other jobs.

 

Sorry for my long rant. I just wanted to get it out in the open of how I feel about me having it and now I felt better.

 

Being as certain as I am about having Asperger's, I'll bite here and I'll presume that I have it (I don't currently have the resources to be evaluated and diagnosed)...

 

I probably was lucky to be in special education until about fourth grade then. Made me learn how to write semi-legibly (note the SEMI) and it helped me figure out how to tie my shoes (I couldn't do that until I was about 10 or so. Couldn't double-knot until 8th grade.)...

 

I never had that problem. In fact, I seemed to have had the exact opposite effect. I literally never tried in school at all and got honor roll almost every single year (except 6th grade, those maps were an absolute NIGHTMARE. I failed every single one...). Though I've always been better in Math-related subjects, which supposedly children with Asperger's generally are from what I have heard... from sources... Though my memory works... bizarrely. I can't really describe my memory other than it's, in general, fairly bad when it comes to things that don't relate to numbers or enumeration of things in some way or form.

 

Same here. I could probably write a Harry Potter length book about my social awkwardness, and how it caused some problems in my personal life. Though in some ways I actually believe that the social awkwardness allowed me to isolate myself and concentrate a little better (I easily get disrupted by even small noises). Though it has led me to not recognize how people feel emotionally, and also not really understand when somebody's joking or being completely serious. Also, strange tics I have made me the weird one of my class. I'm not going to describe them because it would take a while, being that there are a great few of these and I don't know what triggers most of them at all.

 

I see Asperger's as both really. For me it's a blessing in a way because it has it's perks when it comes to intellect, mainly. It also helped form my personality, probably. Though it is a curse in the sense of being generally awkward in every possible way, and all of these weird twitches that I get all of the time (they are worse when it's cold and when I'm unsettled about something).

 

 

So, yeah... A paragraph format of an old blog post I made about the subject a few weeks ago after watching Gnoggin's video about the storyline of Super Smash Bros.

Edited March 17, 2017 by Intelligent Luigi

[Nightshroud 331]

Im autistic and I'm proud I don't let what others say get to me they could say the nastiest things to me I say good day sir to them.

 

Now i aint afried to amitt it but I consider my autism a blessing not a curse.

 

Those people who self-diagnose themselves are just trying to earn pity points among friends.

[Techno Universal 2,575]

Im autistic and I'm proud I don't let what others say get to me they could say the nastiest things to me I say good day sir to them.

 

Now i aint afried to amitt it but I consider my autism a blessing not a curse.

 

Those people who self-diagnose themselves are just trying to earn pity points among friends.

Well I actually have the same perspective of autism as you plus I've been improving in the speech and vocabulary sections of my autism as my speech isn't as choppy as it was 2 years ago. I also somehow now seem to make fun of insults that the other kids throw at me by commenting back on them. A real gift of autism is that it makes you extremely smart and intelligent like I've estimated that my IQ is around 140 as in my last IQ test when I was 10 years old and back then it was around 112. It's amazing but I had issues when it came to talking about it as my language was often hard to understand because of how all over the place it was. You actually probably are also extremely intelligent like me!

[Nightshroud 331]

thanks im tryin' here i was the top of the class.

bullies never got to me because I just walked away.

in real life I'm easier to understand.

Edited March 10, 2017 by Nightshroud

[gamecubeguy214 2,511]

I am autistic, but it doesn't matter to me all that much. To others, I'm just another gamer except with MLP self shipping cancer.

[ShadOBabe 18,984]

I doooo! <3

 

I was originally diagnosed with Asperger's, but that diagnosis isn't really recognized medically anymore (which I personally think is stupid). So yeah, autism for me it looks like then.

 

EDIT: Nothing particularly outstanding about it.

Just makes me kind of quirky. Most people are genuinely surprised when I reveal it.

I especially like revealing it to people I just met who like me, but have just made some kind of disparaging comment about the condition. Their discomfort is entertaining and karmic. XD

 

Perfect example. Some troll was harassing me online. Someone came to my defense. And then privately told me to ignore the guy. "He must just be autistic" or something along those lines. I replied with, "I'm ACTUALLY autistic. Don't compare me to that wad." Cue foot-in-mouth for that person.

Edited March 10, 2017 by ShadOBabe

[Nightshroud 331]

i agree there karma is a bitch

[Snow Frostflame 3,567]

So you're telling me 32,923 of the 36,591 members here have autism or some form of it? That's quite the assumption... I mean I'm sure some people here have autism, but why such a high percentage?

 

Anyways I don't have autism but my youngest sister I believe has Asperger or something like it, I don't remember what it was its been so long since I was told.

[LunarShadow 397]

I suspected for awhile that i might have Aspergers and so do my friends albeit mildly if that is even possible. Although it by no means can replace a formal diagnosis based upon all the tests i took online i fall into a mixed category from what i have gathered. I don't struggle in any one area to the point that it incapacitates me but i do struggle non the less at times.

Edited March 18, 2017 by DayShadow