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Post by Lame44 on Oct 18, 2011 17:47:14 GMT
Not ADHD even though I been properly tested and diagnosed I am going to see a very good specialist in December, (should have been Jan but they moved it forwards) about the tic problems and my GP is hoping to clarify whther I have got ADHD or Aspergers. Now I know why he writes on letters to people that I do have Aspergers and 'possibly ADHD' ins tead of definate ADHD and possible Aspergers I guess.
Does anyone else here know of Dr Andrea Cavana who works at the Barberry place in Birmingham and if so do you know if he is any good like they say he is?!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2011 17:52:20 GMT
Couldn't you have both? I do.
Have you found ADHD medication helpful?
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Post by Lame44 on Oct 18, 2011 18:11:07 GMT
I suppose I could do. I have SPD aswel but my psychologist dont think i have anything else apart from the ADHD and the SPD that he tested me for and explained why he dont think I have Autism or the Aspergers.
I know it's off the topic but my Grandad came out from hospital today and he is going to be dead in about six weeks they have said. He is now staying with my Mam and recently my gf said something to my Sister and it upset her even though it was a silly comment. My Sister told my Mam and they have all been so horrible to me until yesterday and they said they cannot talk to me without me taking things the wrong way or blowing up. They keep saying that I keep asking them wheats is wrong when there is nothing wrong, or so they say and I know that people with Autism and ADHD can get confused by what people ay and how they look and I seem to get that alot. It's one of the main things me and my gf argue over, because I think she looks at me in a bad mood and get upset but she says she isn't in a bad mood.
The psych knows this and he held a picture up and told me to see if I knew what the woman was feeling, like what mood she was in. I said i dont know, and he said to try so I looked again and thought she was in a mood. I got it right, but what I really saw and went to blurt out was that her hair was a mess. I did say this afterwards and the psychologist laughed, I think he thought I was trying to be funny, like to make him laugh but I wasn't. The womans hair being a mess was what I saw and thought really, not that she was in a mood but because he said I can tell she was in a mood then I didn't have Aspergers or Autism. Also he said that if he put me in a room with lots of people who didn't like me then I would know right away as he said I was very sensitive and that if I had Autism then I wouldn't know.
Now I do like my psych alot and I do believe what he says but I'm just a bit confused now because others ahve said that the picture thing and being in a room with people who didnt like me doesn't mean I dont have Autism or Aspergers (I hate writing Aspergers, makes me feel horrible) so now I'm wondering what to think.
Hopefully this Dr Cavana I'm seeing in December will know what is going on or what he can do to tell me what I have and what I dont have. Thats if he is as good as they say he is.
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Post by twix on Oct 18, 2011 19:33:49 GMT
I'm not sure, I have some aspergers symptoms, but I can sometime read people. Both is possible, in fact not unusual. Have they ruled out Tourettes? If you have tics etc. I know you don't like the idea so I hope its not upsetting you for me to ask that, if it is then I will edit. Hope you get sorted anyway, good luck. Sorry to hear about your family troubles, must be upsetting.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2011 20:08:28 GMT
Sorry for hear about your Grandad.
People with Asperger's have trouble reading and responding appropriately to body language. So we can sometimes pick up on how someone is feeling but have trouble knowing how to respond to it.
SPD is also part of AS.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2011 15:42:12 GMT
I would guess that it's easy to confuse Asperfers+ADHD or ADHD+Aspergers, meaning which one is more present out of two. Especially as Aspergers symptoms sound a lot like ADD, as much as I've read Wikipedia. So I wouldn't just believe what doctor thinks about your case without a proper tests. You might be right.
I start to think that I might have some amount of Aspergers on top of my ADHD too.
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Post by Lame44 on Oct 19, 2011 21:21:13 GMT
Hi Twix,
The reason I was going to see Dr Cavana in the first place is because of the tic thing and now my GP says this about Aspergers too so I guess he must have wrote lots of things in his letter to Dr Cavana but I dont know. I do have a form he filled in for the DWP here, well a copy of it and he put that I have Aspergers and 'possibly ADHD' which I found odd and wondered why and now I know why he puts that.
My Cousin is Autistic, my Aunt thinks my Mam has Apsergers and I think I've said before that she has a defo borderline personality Disorder and OCD and I think the tic things too ontop of that. Wouldnt suprise me if something out of all those things had got passed down to me.
Jr I do have trouble with what to do or say around people when they tell me things. Like my Grandad, obviously we are all upset but I dont feel as bad as they do and I dont know why, I know it must sound bad and when they say things about him now or like today when I was at Mams, the Morphine drivers ahd been left there for when he does die and I get upset because I dont know what to say or do when my Mam and my Aunt are there trying to stop themselves crying but they cant. I just left in a hurry literally got my sneakers on and left right away n said 'Im going'. I then had missed calls n messages on my mobile phone when I got home and Mam has called me since n said she had tried to call me etc etc but I just dont know what to say. They sometimes think I'm being nasty if I start talking about random things but I get stuck.
Ilovemusic, I hear that too, thats why I thought my GP was a bit odd saying he didn't think I had ADHD when thats what I first got diagnosed with and it was only in the past few years, and well, I dont know what to think really. I did some of the Aspergers tests on here and I did score highly, very high if I remember rightly but then so did a few others here. I think maybe I do have some Aspergers or Autism in me but like my psych said, the ADHD and SPD can overlap symptoms and he should know as he sees people with ADHD and Autism too but well, I just dont know what to think.
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Post by twix on Oct 19, 2011 21:35:53 GMT
I was like that a bit when my MIL died, its ok to not feel the same as other people at the same time as them, we all deal with grief in our own way, its hard enough without feeling guilty as well.
Take care mate.
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Post by snickerz on Oct 20, 2011 17:10:30 GMT
soz but i read somewere that aspergers or autistic peeps actually get so overwhelmed that they close down
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Post by Lame44 on Oct 20, 2011 18:43:26 GMT
soz but i read somewere that aspergers or autistic peeps actually get so overwhelmed that they close down Well Im not sure I'm closing down but I feel like never opening my mouth to talk to a living soul again at the momemt. I've felt it before too. The more I go on, the less I want to talk it seems. I used to never hardly speak at one point anyway when I was younger, I wish I'd never started. It exhausts me and tires me out completely. Everyone says it's a bad thing not to talk so I keep making myself and making myself but I feel like it's making me ill to the point that at times I really do just want to die. I know I shouldn't say that last bit but I've had enough today I really have. I dont really want to die, but I just want to be left alone I think, and sometimes death is the only way I can see, it scares me though, but one day I dont think I'll be afraid anymore!
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Post by twix on Oct 20, 2011 21:31:45 GMT
Oh dear, sounds like you need a bit of peace and quiet. Try to get some rest hon, hope it looks better in the morning. Take care x If you keep feeling like this please get yourself to A+E and tell them.
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