Asperger Syndrome Support Group
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 characterized by deficiencies in social and communication skills, normal to above normal intelligence, and standard language development.
I've decided to ask an occasional question of all of you, about how you perceive your behaviors, and your thinking. I'm going to post these periodically with this paragraph at the top (so get used to seeing this). I would like to ask that if you choose to answer, please tell me five things about yourself in your answer.
1) Are you answering from your own A.S. experience or from your observations of someone you know who has it?
2) Is the Asperger's syndrome diagnosis from a doctor?
{For this particular question the answer to those two questions are incredibly important!}
3) Have you been diagnosed with anything else, and if so what?
4) Are you male or female?
5) How old are you?
Thanks. Now here's the first question.
it is said in most lists of symptoms I have read that people with Asperger's are usually very rigid in their perceptions of the way "things are", or "ought to be."
Do you agree that Aspie's are rigid in their thinking?
Thanks.
SP
1) Are you answering from your own A.S. experience or from your observations of someone you know who has it?
2) Is the Asperger's syndrome diagnosis from a doctor?
{For this particular question the answer to those two questions are incredibly important!}
3) Have you been diagnosed with anything else, and if so what?
4) Are you male or female?
5) How old are you?
Thanks. Now here's the first question.
it is said in most lists of symptoms I have read that people with Asperger's are usually very rigid in their perceptions of the way "things are", or "ought to be."
Do you agree that Aspie's are rigid in their thinking?
Thanks.
SP
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
2. Yes.
3. No.
4. Female
5. 35
Question: My husband and daughter seem to be very rigid in their thinking. Things are either right or wrong with very little in between.
2) No
3) ADHD, Depresssion, Anxiety
4) Male
5) 24
* Yes, it is an all or nothing situation. No such thing as middle ground. I know I feel a great deal of expectation with life and what I feel I should have. *
2. Yes. Pediatric Neurologist and Psychologist.
3. ADHD, OCD, SID
4. F
5. 36
Question: My son is extremely rigid in his thinking. Things are black or white with very little gray area. It's very difficult to try and sway him to another point of view. Can it be done? Yes, but one needs to have a lot of time and patience and even then I think there is some skepticism.
2) Yes. both are.
3) Brother: depression, substance abuse. Age 56. No, he seems to be open in his thinking. Very much a critical thinker. Takes many points of view into account. What may look like rigidity in thinking is more like social skills incidents.
Example: if he asks the waitress for more water & doesn't get it within five minutes, he'll make a scene in the restaurant regarding her competence. It's not "rigid thinking", but poor social skills. In Philosophy he can think in great variety & shades of meaning & nuances.
One member of group I'm thinking of. Female, 51. Has Dr. diagnosis, plus anxiety, sensory integration issues. She seems to have openmindedness. Has explored many religions before arriving at her current one. Rigidity comes from thinking she is right, when she is.
For both, when people in gifted range think they are right, and they are, based on lots of info., that is often seen as "rigid" thinking, when it is "being convinced," based on having processed more information than the person to whom they are speaking!!
First to thank you, and second, as a blatant move to bump the topic up in the homes of getting some more responses. :-)
Anyone else?
2. I got diagnosed at an Autism clinic
3. OCD, Trichotillomania (With Autism its a bunch of disorders in one also, hence the word Spectrum) Also some Savant type thing.
4. Female
5. 21 now
Yes, can be. I have a schedule too.
Luv,
Kris
2. Doctor and phsychiatist.
3. Anxiety, ADHD,Stress, Depression and OCD.
4. female
5.25
Question: I always think in black and white. For me, things are on way or the other, no in between. I have certain routines. I do everything a certain way. I usually take things seriously and have a hard time understaning jokes. Dawn
2) Diagnosed by a neuropsychologist, corroborated by his ped.
3) SID, Non-Verbal Learning Disorder
4) M
5) 5 years old
I would have to say yes, my son is usually quite rigid in his thinking, especially when it comes to semantics. For example, if I refer to a toy catalog as a "book", he will correct me and tell me it's not a book, it's a magazine. We have to be quite specific in telling him what behavior is okay or not okay. If he gets in trouble one day for drawing on the wall with a crayon, he doesn't infer that it's ALSO not okay to draw on it with black magic marker, because we never TOLD him that black magic marker was also off limits. We have to be very specific that under NO circumstance are you to EVER write on the wall (or carpet, or furniture, or your brother) with ANYTHING of ANY kind EVER.
One of his most rigid ways of thinking has to do with driving routes. We must ALWAYS take the same way home from school, lest we face a meltdown. We have been working with him on "flexibility", driving that word home as often as we can, and I think that his helping. Just this week he has been asking dad to take an alternate route TO school, so that shows huge progress for him.
Last month I put his toothbrush and toothpaste in the bathroom drawer instead of on the counter where it has always been, and I swear WWIII broke out. There was weeping, screaming, gnashing of teeth. Wow.
yes specialist
add ocd...
male
20
rigid meaning... routined structure stiff... not flexible...
I think we are very flexible in our way of thinking... endeavour new methods.. (eg ideas process)...
we like routine structure... with random outbursts... ?... ...
We know whats 'right'... We are opinionated and each have an idea on how things ought to be... but can be flexible(aka take a step back, not leader...)
whats the survey for :P????????????????
SP?
cheers
2. diagnosis form neurologist
3. ADD
4. Male
5. I am 34 and AS son is 9
Answer: I believe my son is pretty rigid. Black or white, never gray. I think a lot of this has to do with one, his comfort in consistency and two, his issues with understanding fantasy from reality.
2) Yes
3)Asthma, allergies
4)male
5)15
Do i believe Aspies are rigid in their thinking.
Yes- here is an example. I said to my son that unfortunately he didn't know everything...his reply was yes but I do know most. In a way I think he is right!
My son will argue to the point that his way of thinking is right, very emphatic and very direct.
2. Yes Psychologist
3. Yes (OCD, Bi-polar, ADHD)
4. Male
5. 31
My experience says that I am both more rigid and more flexible than others that I've been involved with. My standard routines are generally inflexible and constant (when they can be), but when someone, that has even a small portion of trust, suggests that there might be another way (as long as it's not confrontory) I can find myself bending in ways that I've not observed a "psychonormal" person achieve.
ODB
Anyone else?
The more replies, the better!
3) ive got siezures, blindness, had a avm, and so much more.
? some are some arent. it depends on the person. some AS people are and some aren't.
4) female
5) 15
2) ~Not yet because my psychiatrist is unwilling to diagnose adults and seems to have this odd belief that people with AS do not want to interract/have friends.
3) Bipolar, OCD, social anxiety, bpd.
4) Female
5) 32
I am very rigid in my thinking, and find it very hard to bend to others. I like facts and find it causes immense conflict when dealing with something I cannot explain factually with a set answer.