New diagnosis
So I met someone on myspace a few days ago (he messaged me... He lives in Orangevale, and I hadn't seen him before, but it's because his "orientation" flag was set to "not sure", and my searches were set to "gay" (just easier that way... I figured I could meet straight people through gay people)), so we get to talking and his profile says "it's really hard for me to open up to people i haven't known for years, so please don't be offended if i just met you and i seem standoffish."... Gee... that doesn't sound familiar, does it? So we start talking about that and I say even though I don't mention it in my profile, I'm like that too, and he ends up having found a diagnosis for himself like I did, but it's a different one. We swap them, and it looks like we both have elements of the one the other came up with (though I think his is even more on the mark for me than mine was).
It's called Asperger Syndrome ( http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html the most applicable part is "...desire interaction with others but have trouble knowing how to make it work. They are, however, able to learn social skills much like you or I would learn to play the piano." which totally makes sense... I'm constantly asking certain people what I'm "supposed" to be doing in certain situations. Not everything else applies, but a lot (probably most) of it does.).
I've been looking more into it and talked to my mom about it and she said "uhm yea... that's you growing up (and now)". So I'm going to compile a document with all of the info I've been able to gather, have my mom make notes about how it applies to me, add my own notes about what I think I have of it, and show it to my psychiatrist next time I'm there... Even if he doesn't have an idea of what medication might be more effective than everything else I've been on up to this point, he should be able to point me in the right direction (he's been in the field for a long time... like before the medication and talking were separate, so he knows more than just meds unlike a lot of the psychiatrists now).
It's called Asperger Syndrome ( http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html the most applicable part is "...desire interaction with others but have trouble knowing how to make it work. They are, however, able to learn social skills much like you or I would learn to play the piano." which totally makes sense... I'm constantly asking certain people what I'm "supposed" to be doing in certain situations. Not everything else applies, but a lot (probably most) of it does.).
I've been looking more into it and talked to my mom about it and she said "uhm yea... that's you growing up (and now)". So I'm going to compile a document with all of the info I've been able to gather, have my mom make notes about how it applies to me, add my own notes about what I think I have of it, and show it to my psychiatrist next time I'm there... Even if he doesn't have an idea of what medication might be more effective than everything else I've been on up to this point, he should be able to point me in the right direction (he's been in the field for a long time... like before the medication and talking were separate, so he knows more than just meds unlike a lot of the psychiatrists now).