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Hi there tanya52. Thank you for the link. I was a li'll ahead of ya there though. I used the advice on there and did as it suggests.now it's just a waiting game. Again though, thank you for the link. I would prefer a referral from my doc as I have paid NI contributions all my life so I would like to get something back but if that fails I think I'll go private. I really want to clarify what's going on in my head. Hey, if i do go private the I suppose at least I'll be able to pick a decent examiner (edit to clarify details) (edit to rectify typo)

I have "Five Finger Death Punch" on cycle. I would link to a video but they say some naughty words and I don't wish to corrupt you sweet innocent folks

I also Find I leg bounce in time to my internal monologue and/or music. If I am listening to fast/loud/heavy music my leg goes 10 to the dozen but if I'm just chillin' and or reading Etc. it bounces in time to my heartbeat (I can hear my heartbeat because of a medical condition I have) When it comes to analyzing things I find it's a plus point of how my mind works. I have 2 main hobbies and an interest that I have an encyclopedic memory of and I decided to put it in writing. it's fun. I am a fan of zombie/apocalypse genres and I saw somewhere "do you have a zombie plan". Now, don't get me wrong, my science mind says "that it'll never happen" but my hyperactive planning mind said "No, it won't happen but you could build a plan for it,,,, and it's a plan that is NOT finite". Unlike my Tea hobby which has a finite number of teas (so far I have 147 DIFFERENT types totaling 2.55 KG), planning for the unknown is something that will keep me going FOREVER! Sorry if I over defined but I wanted to explain fully. HTH

Just so you know, the password section has problems in opera browser. It fails to recognise a passwords has been entered and it fails to accept VALID passwords. You may say "not a problem" but I have to use IE to access the forum,,,, EEEWWW I feel dirty just saying that Any chance your tech wizards can tinker with the code to allow Opera browser access?

I used to have a growl. Every time i breathed out I growled. Not loudly,,, just a quiet kitty type grrrr. It bugged my missus and I don't like to think I am upsetting people so I did some self stud; It was the noise. it relaxed me. so I spent some time (3 weeks) training myself out of it. Now nothing good comes without something bad. I trained myself by concentrating on my internal voice. The only problem now is when I get in stress situations I tend to actually say out loud what is in my head. It's not good if that thought is things like "can you leave my sh!t alone I hate you when you don't keep your grubby hands off!" or "you smell so nice I really want to lick you" It might take a while but I'm sure I will find some way to stop this eventually. So, in closing: I had a similar thing to your humming but now I don't p.s. I'm 33, does that make me enough of an adult for ya

I havhe 2 things that I notice EVERY day.: 1) motion. I rock / twitch / wibble my leg / flick my fingers etc (mostly the leg) I notice it more at the computer because the harmonic resonance wobbles the monitor and I have had to FIRMLY secure it to stop it from detatching fromn the mountings. 2) I have verbal diarrhea. I can talk for England and If it's something I like then you have to give me some OBVIOUS clue to shut up (such as saying "so, anyway...") or I'll just go on... and on... and on... and on... and you get the idea. HTH

TBH, It wouldn't bother me. It would just be helpful to have something to tell other people when I do some of the things.that I do. What I mean is when people say "you're a li'll weird" or when they say "that's not normal" I could say "no, you're right, I have (insert condition here) but This is normal for me and I think if you take the time to get to know me that you'll like what you see." It's hard to do that if you're just self-diagnosed. Ohh, badges,,, why don't we get one? there should be a shop where you can get pretty ASD related things. BUY ALL THE SPARKLES!!!!!!

Hi there. Please forgive me if this is in the wrong place as this is my first post and I am learning. A friend of mine who knows me very well has 3 children, one of whom has autism. Nothing problematic there. She has known me for nearly two decades and she has said several times " you are showing signs that you have aspergers" (can you guess what her kid has on the ASD?) Anyway, I digress. I did some looking into aspergers and the more I read the more I saw myself in the "signs". I locked onto psychology and studied it for months and months. I will admit that I showed signs of other conditions but nothing major (everyone has signs of something lol) so I ignored them but the more I looked at aspergers the more I saw myself in the signs and symptoms. Here's the kicker: I finally caved in to her requests and I asked my doctor to refer me for for a psychological/psychiatric test and autism test and he said "no" because "our borough doesn't have the funds for that" 1) So.... should I be satisfied in the self diagnosis of aspergers 2) Should I push my doctor and if so... how? 3) Does getting an "official" diagnosis change anything or am I just wasting my time? Please forgive my writing skills. if anything is unclear please ask and I'll try to clarify.