There was recently an article in the teenpages about autism, and high functining autism.

B”H some time in the next few weeks there is going to be an interveiw in teenpages (Mishpacha) about high functioning autsim.

It is under a pen name, and many ideas that we written here were put into it!

What is the book you are refering to?

I never thought of it that way.

It could be possible that since I always was put down and stuff…

It really is sad how today, most of these so called disorders come from abuse, eating habits, and all sorts of things. It just shows how bad the world has gotten. It’s not like these things are new, but the causes of them has grown, as so has the disorder, and now knowledge of it. If only people would work more on treating the cause.

I only apply to a few symptoms. In real life, don’t you need most of the symptoms to be called something? Not just 1 or 2?

So if this was from my environment, question is, are the effects so bad that I will permanently have challenges socially or do I have the ability to learn, understand and be normal.

By the way, I don’t like talking about people being normal or not cuz everyone has their issues, I try to not dfo that. But right now I’m talking about my feelings, and in my feelings I have to be normal, just hearing the word not normal reminds me of being put down constantly. But in general I believe everyone e has their own issues, one of mine happens to be that for myself I cannot think not normal is okay…I just can’t. Get it?

Symptoms of Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS)

Impaired social interaction (like all children with autistic spectrum disorder)

Better language skills than kids with autistic disorder but not as good as those with Asperger’s syndrome

Fewer repetitive behaviors than children with Asperger’s syndrome or autistic disorder

A later age of onset

ASPERGERS

Children with Asperger syndrome may have speech marked by a lack of rhythm, an odd inflection, or a monotone pitch. They often lack the ability to modulate the volume of their voice to match their surroundings. For example, they may have to be reminded to talk softly every time they enter a library or a movie theatre.

Unlike the severe withdrawal from the rest of the world that is characteristic of autism, children with Asperger syndrome are isolated because of their poor social skills and narrow interests. Children with the disorder will gather enormous amounts of factual information about their favorite subject and will talk incessantly about it, but the conversation may seem like a random collection of facts or statistics, with no point or conclusion. They may approach other people, but make normal conversation difficult by eccentric behaviors or by wanting only to talk about their singular interest.

Many children with AS are highly active in early childhood, but some may not reach milestones as early as other children regarding motor skills such as pedaling a bike, catching a ball, or climbing outdoor play equipment. They are often awkward and poorly coordinated with a walk that can appear either stilted or bouncy.

Further differences in features between people with high-functioning autism and those with Asperger syndrome include the following:

People with HFA have a lower verbal intelligence quotient

Better visual/spatial skills (higher Performance IQ) than people with Asperger syndrome

Less deviating locomotion than people with Asperger syndrome

People with HFA more often have problems functioning independently

Curiosity and interest for many different things, in contrast to people with Asperger syndrome

People with Asperger syndrome are better at empathizing with another

The male to female ratio of 4:1 for HFA is much smaller than that of Asperger syndrome

My parents will ALWAYS look at me like I’m 5.

I don;’t think you understood, I am high functioning, so high that no one is sure if I just have a few social quirks or I have high functioning aspergers c(which doesn’t even exist, I looked online, so how could I have it?) to anyone else I look normal.

I am socially challenged, my nisayon is socially, while others is in other places. I am completely normal.

No shtooyot about how I’m special needs, I repeat. OURtorah, you know me here as a different name, and probably never will make the connection between that poster and me.

I am mainstreamed, I’ve been to regular sleepaway camp like agudah or maravah or sternberg. I made camp friends, I do everything like I’m normal.

Like I said, either people look down at me when I make mistakes when I try so hard, or they expect me to be like down syndrome or something!!! It seems like that is what you are doing OURtorah.

And if I was posting under my old SN you never would of said such a thing to me. I know you, I’ve been here quite a few years longer that you have. I remember the day you came…

My parents will always look down on me, there is no relationship happening. This is reality. I need to accept it and learn to deal with it.

edited to make it more difficult to identify you

BTW, it was really hard for me to write this, especially because I am a former poster here, and was a regular one at that. After I stopped posting, lurked for a while, and now I saw this. So here I am, under a different name, months/year(s) later.

I hope no one figures me out, I never could of admitted this under my old SN/UN. I’m only here for this thread, because…well, I had to let people know what is really inside our heads.

There is so much info now in magazines (jewish) about abuse, disorders, addictions.

But none about this!!! None at all!!!!!!

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I totally get you how you feel. I don’t have words for you.

I don’t know if I’m autistic, they tell me I am. But I am mainstreamed and my friends tell me I’m not…

I just get so confused!!! I spend so much effort trying to remember social cues and I’m never EVER good enough for the world I live in. And I’m sick of it. Cuz I’m mainstreamed, I’m expected to act like I’m non-autistic cuz I’m not. But at the same time I am a little, or that’s what they say.

Can we just not call it autistic?

I am socially challenged. I am a regular girl. Maybe just like someone in your school. But I’m different. Sometimes I am too impulsive and don’t think before I talk, and sometimes I forget to see if you are interested or not. Sometimes I am successful and sometimes not.

But don’t judge me by that.

This is my nisayon. Everyone has theirs, and I am working, taking one thing at a time, slowly slowly. It doesn’t help to scream at me to go faster, just like it doesn’t help to scream at the computer to go faster WHEN IT CAN’T!!!!

I am learning, always learning.

I guarantee you, if non-autistic people tried half as hard as I do to make sure that what they did didn’t upset other people or harm them, the world would be alot better off. Please, just remember that I slip up, just like a person with an angry nature slips up and yells, even though they are working on themselves.

There are many types of autism, anyone on the spectrum just a tiny bit is considered autistic when it’s really it just means they are completely normal just have to work harder on social cues and stuff.

Why is the world so cruel, why can’t people realize that we work so hard??????