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on a scale of 1-10 where would you place your self on warriors A-S scale?

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  1. 1. where do you fit on the scale?

    • 0-3 (NT to moderate aspergers)
    • 3-6 (modertate aspergers)
    • 6-10 (modertate to severe aspergers)
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so, on a scale of 1-10 how aspie are you? i would place myself at 2.5 on the scale beacuse im quite NT. i told some girl the other week i have aspergers, and she said no you dont. i tryed to convince her but she wasnt having any of it. i would of placed myself at 8 or 9 on the scale 10 years ago, i was very bad, almost serverly autistic, i was nearly put into a home and everything. but somehow over the years ive been almost cured of my aspergers.

 

but anyway, rant over. where would you place yourself on the scale?

 

and yes you can use a decimal number i.e 4.7 or 5.4 etc. but above is a poll if you dont know exactly and just want to put yourself in a range bracket.

 

 

just to add, this is not intended to cause offence or to slander or judge pepole. this is just for convosation. i posted this in off topic for this reason.

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When my son was 7 rs I would have put him at an 8 or 9...hes 17 now and able to live his life how he would want ..ie no school etc , he is free to pursue his obsession/interest as a career and he is very happy.He would probably be a 3 now.

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This is really difficult because a lot of this is about how I decide to control myself and how I present.

 

At one end of the scale would be where I purposfully take all the brakes off. This might be a very dynamic design session which might last for a few days. I have had people witness this who live in my appartment when I was at university and they would say that they had seen nothing like it when I was in full flow. There whole process is full of autisitic traits, I also zone out in respect to interacting with other individuals and have had a next door mate say he looked at me and the look back was as if I didn't even recognise him. The same guy would say after spending a few weeks living with me he was aware that I shared a lot of similar traits with a child he knew well diagnosed with Asperger's but it was difficult to compare because thats was a seven year old child and I was a mature adult. When he saw the control mechanism turned off and witnessed me in full flow that it was only then that he got an insight into who I was as an individual.

 

At the other end of the scale I suspect I could present as having reasonably mild traits. If though something got my attention such as a topic of interest in the conversation the control mechanism might get turned down a little. If the environment was difficult in respect to external stimuli then the mechanism might slip a bit over time as well. So the perception of how aspie I am might change a couple of points or so over the period of two or three hours.

 

The difficulty I have with your scale is that I suspect I can present anywhere between 2.0 and possibly as high as 10. The difficulty is at the top end this can be in very different circumstances. If I am having a full blown panic attack and then struggling to relate to the people who might be around me and wants to withdraw to a safe place, is that a display of aspie behaviour because it is part of me and can be very extreme? In a similar way is using my autistic traits in full flow designing a sign of aspie behaviour, because again the productivity levels are extreme?

 

The only way I can answer this is to say that I have a lot of energy inside of me which can come out in a number of ways. I have very rarely come across anyone with this amount of energy so I would have to rate this on a level 10. If the source of that energy is autism then I have the potential to be very autistic. A lot of people would however say the same thing about me as you were told A-S Warrior that I can't have Asperger's this is often because they only work in cliches and labels they are familiar with. A professional in the mental health sector once said I was too intelligent to have Asperger's to highlight how cliches don't work. In contrast I have been told by someone who has worked with adults with AS professionaly for 20 years that I am one of the most autistic individulas she has ever met.

 

When I was younger in my teenage years I would have possibly said I fitted into a narrower range. I couldn't control my energy as well, in other words turn it down a few levels. Whilst I had periods of it being high in a negative sense I had yet to learn how to harness it in a possitive way a lot of the time. So I do think these things can change over time. I think the issue here is do we see it as a positive or negative thing. I think too much effort is made to try and get Aspies to turn down / tone down their behaviour, rather than learning to manipulate this energy in positive ways which might even mean learning to turn it right up to maximum.

 

Just a few thoughts.

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When my son was 7 rs I would have put him at an 8 or 9...hes 17 now and able to live his life how he would want ..ie no school etc , he is free to pursue his obsession/interest as a career and he is very happy.He would probably be a 3 now.

 

 

thats nice to hear :cheers:

 

 

lancslad once again throwing several spanners in the works lol but as usual, left me with plenty to think about.

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and yes you can use a decimal number i.e 4.7 or 5.4 etc. but above is a poll if you dont know exactly and just want to put yourself in a range bracket.

 

3.14159265428 :lol:

 

...but I'll write a more definative answer when I get time...

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Anything to do with pie's will always interest a northern lad like me, good answer Robert.

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Anything to do with pie's will always interest a northern lad like me, good answer Robert.

 

Thanks LancsLad,

 

I love pies too - especially the meat ones but I'm not allowed any for a while...but pie - ella I am allowed...yum! :lol:

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Finished work now so back at home now with a proper answer to Warrior's question

 

There are days when I might represent 0 (i.e. fully NT) and other days when I may hit 7 - 8...and a couple of times...a 10!

 

it really depends on several factors: mainly whether I have had enough sleep and whether I am prepared for the coming day. Plus my mood and confidence level.

 

For example, every few months, I have to train junior doctors in my specialised field and because I am very confident in what I am telling them, I can register 0 on Warrior's Aspie scale. And this is predictable (i.e. every few months) so I can plan accordingly and I know the juniors won't be judgemental (or that's the impression I get).

 

But if I had to go into a room full of strangers and give a lecture on something I don't know enough about or...unplanned, sudden group activity with a group of strangers (or sometimes even people I know) that I didn't feel confident about then I could score the full 10.

 

Some of you might remember I went on a course a few months back and at one point, I had near enough a total meltdown (so 10 on Warrior's scale). Plus at coffee break, all the delegates were chatting amongst themselves - except me who felt like the proverbial gooseberry - so again, the full 10 on Warrior's scale.

 

So there are various factors to consider...

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I think some of the more severe ends of the spectrum aught to no longer have the title asperger's syndrome attached to them as the spectrum thing is misleading - they aught to have their own syndrome to sit in which differentiates them.

Edited by Mike_GX101

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I really have absolutely no idea. If it's down to how I come across then I'd be at the lower end of the scale. If it's to do with how I feel inside and how I think well...who knows?

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We all seem to get lumped in together and people think we're all like Raymond in Rain Man (i.e. a definite 10+).

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