Datura
Well-Known Member
So; tonight...
I went out to a club, and...
I had a good time!
I have never had a big problem with such environments. The loud music, flashing lights, and human menagerie are welcome distractions from daily life, rather than an assault on my senses. Sometimes things get uncomfortably loud. Sometimes I feel a bit disoriented. But I deal. It doesn't bother me much and it certainly doesn't induce panic.
This is the one major aspect that casts doubt on my having Asperger's. I just don't seem to have the sensory issues that are typical in the literature. I don't get bothered by tags in my clothing, I can deal with crowds so long as I have freedom to move, background noise confuses me, but doesn't trigger meltdowns. Does this preclude my having the condition? If it isn't Asperger's causing my issues, then what is it?
Maybe I am just a really geeky and obsessive person with ADD and an unnatural proclivity for shaking things? I don't know.
Do any of you, diagnosed or otherwise, find there are ways in which you differ from the model aspie? Do you find you can easily do things you "shouldn't" be able to do? How stringent, exactly, are the diagnostic criteria?
I went out to a club, and...
I had a good time!
I have never had a big problem with such environments. The loud music, flashing lights, and human menagerie are welcome distractions from daily life, rather than an assault on my senses. Sometimes things get uncomfortably loud. Sometimes I feel a bit disoriented. But I deal. It doesn't bother me much and it certainly doesn't induce panic.
This is the one major aspect that casts doubt on my having Asperger's. I just don't seem to have the sensory issues that are typical in the literature. I don't get bothered by tags in my clothing, I can deal with crowds so long as I have freedom to move, background noise confuses me, but doesn't trigger meltdowns. Does this preclude my having the condition? If it isn't Asperger's causing my issues, then what is it?
Maybe I am just a really geeky and obsessive person with ADD and an unnatural proclivity for shaking things? I don't know.
Do any of you, diagnosed or otherwise, find there are ways in which you differ from the model aspie? Do you find you can easily do things you "shouldn't" be able to do? How stringent, exactly, are the diagnostic criteria?