What is Asperger Syndrome

Asperger syndrome - also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, Aspergers or just AS - is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is chara...

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I just got diagnosed with Asperger's today and don't really understand it. I hope coming on this site will help me.
Posted on 11/04/09, 11:11 am
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Reply #1 - 11/06/09  5:42pm
" If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Someone will try to help. "
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Reply #2 - 11/06/09  7:23pm
" How do you get a real diagnoses? "
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Reply #3 - 11/06/09  8:49pm
" what do you mean? you got diagnosed, but it wasn't a real diagnosis? "
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Reply #4 - 11/09/09  2:31am
" I'm so confused, but then I have a saying "confusion is my natural state"... ok so lets start from the start, problem : the patient knows too little about Aspergers and what it is, one good option would be to research it ... say, wikipedia, for example, will have a description.

Google will come up with many results no doubt, I can see how that could be difficult to select options...

But in a nutshell Aspergers Syndrome is characterized mostly by: Low Empathy, issues with Social Interaction, Narrow Interests, Literal Speech, and clumsiness... "
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Reply #5 - 11/09/09  10:47pm
" i want to hear more about your statement, "confusion is my natural state". I said something like that to my psychiatrist, and he just asked me what I meant by that. What's up with you, what confusion? confusion about what? if you can't answer, if u dont understand the question, i wont get mad, but you hit a nerve, maybe a good one. i wanna talk about that. not my good nerve, the confusion state thing. "

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