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What Is Wrong With Me?

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Well i'm 18 years old now and I don't feel like everyone else. I believe people
find me strange and yet they say there is nothing wrong with me. I don't understand
this as I know I talk really slow and odd. I find it difficult to make eye contact and I
seem to be in my own world most of the time. I like to keep to myself, I love to be
in a room alone behind my computer I don't like sport or anything
like that. I seem to find nothing in common with people at all. I prefer to be around older
people rather than people my own age. When I socialise with anyone outside of my own home,
like I meet someone I don't know what to say to them or how to keep the conversation
going. I do not understand myself either. As a child I was really strange, I would walk
on my toes, stamp on old ladies feet. I used to do mean things to my mother, i've thrown
beer up her, spat at her, threatened to kill myself (knives, jumping out of the window).
I never used to have friends in school either, i've always found socialising very
difficult. Time seems to fly by everyday. I wake up, sit behind my computer then all
of a sudden it's time to sleep again. Though I sleep really strange hours. I even forget
to eat most days. This is a really big problem, as I should now be ready to work but I hate
the idea of work, I don't have any interest in money yet I know it's worth in todays world.
I can't for the life of me understand why people are so stuck up and agressive, maybe it's
just me I can't be sure. I feel like i'm the only one that's right and noone else is, yet
i feel anger when they don't seem to understand what I mean. I say things to people also
which may hurt them, but I don't seem to realise that until afterwords, but then I keep
quiet. I really don't know what's wrong with me but surely this isn't adverage.
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replied December 16th, 2006
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At the risk of playing the amateur doc, i'd say you sound possibly a little or as they say mildly autistic....................Maybe aspergers?!...........Toe walking is one of the signs, along with slow and slightly mechanical type talk..................Lack of eye contact is another and the major one for aspergers in particular is the severe lack of social skills....................They seem to have everything else.................The intelligence and the verbal skills......................But totally clueless about social skills...........They give the appearance of not caring about others but deep down care very much...............Just dont know how to proceed..........................I dont want to label you or make you feel defective........................You are not and people should appreciate all the beautiful differences we all have...................................... Its just nice to know your not alone.................And find support from others in similar situations. Smile

there are many websites with support for peoples with autism/aspergers
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