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  1. I was diagnosed with Asperger when I was 21 years old. I started going to a psychologist when I was 18, and at that team they thought psychosis and started with a review of that. The psychologists at that team was specialists in psychosis. After three years there, with a session two times at week, they still hadn't concluded if I was psychotic or not, and by that time I was moving to a new place and a new psychiatrist with her speciality in psychosis took over. In addition to being a specialist in psychosis, this psychiatrist worked in the habilitation services and was so also expert on Asperger syndrome, ADHD, CP and other cognitive disabilities. After three months she did a test for ADHD on me, and after 5 months she told me that I showed the ADHD symptoms but that I was something more and that more was Asperger syndrome. Christopher Gillberg, who is an expert on Asperger syndrome, has written that it is very normal to be reviewed for psychosis in adults with asperger syndrome, and if one not know the differences clear enough many with Asperger syndrome may end up with a diagnosis of psychosis. For my history this was nearly the case since those specialists in psychosis didn't know much about Asperger syndrome. But the new psychiatrist which was an expert in both psychosis and Asperger syndrome was able to see the differences and set the right diagnosis. My parents was not involved, but reports from teachers and so from the childhood was. An IQ-test isn't too much of value in diagnosing Asperger syndrome according to research. The IQ is in most cases around 100 in Asperger syndrome and it is often a difference between verbal IQ and performance IQ in Asperger syndrome, where verbal is higher than perfomance. I have myself a significant difference between verbal and performance IQ, but none of them are outside the normal IQ range (85-115). Anyway, different clinicians have different practices on diagnosing Asperger syndrome. In some cases neuropsychological test batteries (as IQ-test), parents, surveys etc. are required and in other cases only a general observation and some interviews are required.
  2. It is normal with executive problems in Asperger, and it shown that they score in the lower normal range on the processing IQ. Not lazyness inso, but it can be experienced as lazyness.
  3. I have in fact had a much more healthy bowel than what is normal, and I don't believe in a connection between coeliac/gastrointenstinal disorders and ASD. I got some more bowelproblems after I went on Zyprexa for 2 years, which isn't an abnormal thing since it has a big impact on the metabolic system (I went up 20 kg in the first month as a bi-effect, from a BMI on 17 to a BMI on 23). That said, the first 20 years of my life before any medication I wasn't away from school cause of sickness more than 1 time each year in mean, and I had only problems with the bowel when I had flu and so.
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    Im from Oslo in Norway.
  5. I can fully understand his "you never let me do anything, you keep me caged,you never teach me anything etc etc." If you have too strict rules he will never learn to behave on his own in the case of privacy. Giving away email adress isn't so dangerous, bank accounts and passwords are much more dangerous. It is important that he learn what is dangerous and not without crisis maximations on all kinds of privacy, since this will give both confusion to what the internet is about if it isn't allowed to share information on it, and you could easy be seen as paranoid. Problems in privacy on internet is not an autistic issue, it is something which affects all social groups. My university has a mandatory 15 lectures course both staff and students has to take on privacy in the digital domain, visualizing the width of the potential group of humans who may have problems here.
  6. A time in hospital can both be worse and better, and it is important to clarify both what they would do in the hospital and what their thoughts about the outcome may be. It can help to relax your son in some case, but it can also make him depressed. My own experience is that such a solution are being presented when the therapists doesn't know what to do or if they haven't time for it. Once I was in a very chaotic phase, where nothing worked I got a choice to either start with zyprexa (neuroleptica) or get in a mental hospital for a month or more. Those was the therapists only solutions for me, but I rejected they both. The medication only **** my brain up totally (from earlier experience, and which I still has negative after-effects of 4 years after I ended it), and to be placed as a crazy man in a mental hospital wasn't something I wanted. I wasn't crazy. For me, today, a mental hospital may be a solution if I fall so much down that I simply need some others to care totally for me (more than the help with organizing, toothbrushing and so as I get today), but I will have the right to define if Im in need of it and also the conditions of what they should be allowed to according to me (no medication in example). I have never understand what elective mutism is about, but I know that I choose a strategy to not talk with a person/some persons for a longer or shorter period sometimes as a mean to achieve different things (like making things clear for others about an issue, getting extra care and attention, and so on), and it works very good. I don't call it elective mutism, since I know why I use it. But it may sometimes been such reason for it in people with elective mutism also I think. Anyway, get the clear specifications from the professionals of why they think he are in need of hospitalization before taking a choice. Professionals and experts may sometimes having their own directions with things and not working for a man's best, so one have to be aware and critical.
  7. I live in Norway and by law it isn't so difficult to qualify for disability benefits. The biggest problem is that social workers and so doesn't understand the different difficults of Asperger and so they often offer benefits which not will benefit the Asperger, despite that they often are imposed by law to offer those with Asperger other benefits which fit better. In Norway those with a disability who get full support from state and not working get approx 1500 USD/month (if one have been in work before one may gain more from the state). Disable students can get support from the state which is also approx 1500 USD/month (before tax). Public higher education in Norway is free and normal students get also much support. We have also something called Individual Plan which coordinate the different agencies so that the one with a disability shouldn't need to run all over the country to get his/her rights. In Norway we have a system where each with a disability (or other medical need) pay not more than 300 USD each year. If they go over this payment, they get it free. So for a typical asperger in therapy this means that they may get all therapy free from in example end of february through december that year, since they have payed those 300 USD already to the end of february. All medication or other aids which is in this scheme also get free after those 300 USD are paid. It is in any case much different benefits those with asperger can get in Norway, but one have as a client the responsibility to crawle the laws to get it, and I can mostly talk for myself and what I have got after working for it the last years: -A card which state that Im in need of a companion in social situations which gives med the right to have with me one personally chosen person on concerts, cinema, theatre and other cultural arrangments. The companion I chose (which I can change each time if I wish) get free ticket to the arrangement. I get also 50% off on train if I have with me the card and a companion (who also get 50% off). -Student support and facilitated studies. -Free physiotherapy. -Personal assistant. Not giving aspergers the facilitating which is needed to give they same rights as other people get is discrimination by Norwegian law, which can be punished with fines or imprisonments. The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration has made one great booklet on Asperger syndrome. This is only in norwegian, but I add a link to the google translate into english of it (not perfect cause of google translate, but it may show a bit about the understanding of asperger and needs in Norway): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nav.no%2Fbinary%2F236856%2Ffile%3Fdownload%3Dtrue
  8. Ive also problem with this, and it is clearly a psychological reason for it. I don't know what it is yet, but Im seeing a therapist now. It manifest itself like some OCD kind of action here (have both bowel and bladder "movements") where I got thoughts who get stronger if Im not following them and which end in a movement before or later. I got only thoughts when Im really tired/stressed out, so it seems to also be a connection. I don't know what it is it, and it is extra embarassing since it is thoughts I can't control which set it in action and not a physical reason. Hopefully my therapist will find out something. Too bad it is hard to find research on both psychological reason and if it is a connection between this and asperger.
  9. Autistics has, according to research, some physical anomalies which can be seen if one know about them. Also (which I don't have found any clear research on yet) it seems to be something with the eyes of autistics.
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    Hey! Im a 25 year old male with Asperger syndrome.
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