Aspergers Syndrome

[Edwardo Piet]

Anyone here know much about Aspergers Syndrome? It's something I may get diagnosed with soon. I've already been tested by a neuropsych before and I've done a small questionaire and online tests... but no full diagnosis yet but I'll be getting an asssessment and a positive or negative result on a diagnosis in a few weeks time.

So yeah, anyone here know much about it?

Yep, here. Psychology major and someone with Asperger's. Let me know what you want to know exactly. Haven't checked the whole thread yet.

Okay...

Obsessions with rules.

Obessions with narrow interests.

Analyzing the hell out of those narrow interests and wanting to know everyhing about them.

Seeing all my favorite music and foods as all good or all bad.

Loving my comfort zones until they change. They change when my obsessions with my 'mental rules' change. Those change either back and forth quickly when I'm anxious or suddenly and dramatically which makes me depressed until I find new rules to comfort me and keep me in my comfort zone.

So I want to know if any of this seems rather Aspie to you?

ETA and P.S. I like you an awful, awful lot you're not irrational at all but I've seen your explanation for your username and the explanation and motivation behind it is very like my own justifications for my own online usernames (in the past... lately my usernames have been given to me by other people... which is kind of neat because it prevents me from changing it over and over when it no longer fits my 'mental rules' and I no longer feel justified).

Oh P.P.S:

I feel like if I deeply know something to be true but I can't explain why it's true I can't allow myself to believe it until I can explain it to myself.... I also then feel compelled to explain it to others to help justify it and to make myself feel more secure. Also because I love debate.

For example, well, this is going to be very abstract but I'm a very abstract person, don't know what else to call it if not an example though:

When it comes to logically sound premises that are sound and intuitively are obviously true to me.... I don't actually allow myself to accept those premises until I can find valid arguments or valid evidence for them. I need validity. Intuition for what is sound and "just makes sense to me", is not enough at all. I won't allow it. I have to scrutinise for that validity and I feel compelled by this.

I have an extremely deep desire to understand myself and others basically, so I have to know WHY something is true not just THAT it is true otherwise I'll be like "nope, can't be true yet... without knowing why I don't truly know it"

If i can't know why something is true my brain quickly finds reasons to see the falsehood in it.

It's an epistemology. Anyone who says they "know" without knowing why or rather... HOW they know, to me, doesn't really know. Knowledge is absolute. And understanding implies knowledge.... to me understanding is knowledge + comprehension of information.

Anyway, yeah, so any of this seem Aspie to you?