I'm currently in grad school getting my Master's degree in Special Education. This semester, I'm taking a class called, "Social and Personality Development". Well actually, I'm taking it a second time since I made too low a grade last time I took it ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-reibel/teen-with-aspergers-arres_b_610530.htmlRead more... )

A brief. I took the proactive approach, and did a self referal to a psychiatrist who specializes in PDD's, ASD, and other things - like panic disorder, OCD etc...  My doctor was really supportive of my doing this.   Twisting and twiddling with my rubber band (that I wear on my wrist, so I have something to fiddle with - it help me focus my thoughts ( Read more... )

This post is relevant, I assure you ( Read more... )

This isn't quite aspie-related, but I know many people here have taken medications for other psych conditions, and one of these days someone will be pushing aspie meds of some kind too, I have no doubt ( Read more... )

hrmm if I am going to post here I better introduce myself... I'm 25 I went to college in 2001 (first time living on my own)... I took oh maybe a half-dozen different medications and saw various mental health professionals... I failed a ridiculous number of classes by not going to them... I had terrible insomnia and panic attacks and what i was ( Read more... )

I know I haven't properly introduced myself yet. I have not been officially diagnosed yet so I have refrained from claiming that I am an Aspie. I know many others here have never been officially diagnosed, its just that if I am on the spectrum, I am so far at the end that pretty much no one would ever believe that I am autistic. I was diagnosed in ( Read more... )

( A bit of violence, maybe something not everyone would want to read. )

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/expert-in-reise.html

Psychiatrist Testifies: Reiser May Have Asperger Syndrome

It's a page on wired.com about court proceedings where the witness psychiatrist mentions running phone conversations as why Reiser, a murderer an trial, might have AS.

Is this true?  AS people talking on the phone, going on and on ( Read more... )

My doctor either forgot to send my Rx through to my pharmacy or I lost the paper it was on. In any event I have one pill left, it is the 15th and my next app with him is the 26th ( Read more... )