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Hello, I just signed on to this group today. I know about Asperger's but what I

don't know is if the doctors we are seeing for my daughter are really the

correct ones. The Psychiatrists do not actually say my daughter has Asperger's

but I tell them that all the issues my daughter has fits clearly into the

symtoms of Aspergers. The psychiatrists say it doesn't matter if my daughter is

officially diagnosed with Aspergers or not, they are treating her symtoms and

the way they are treating her symtoms they say, is the same way they would treat

a patient with Asperger's.

I see my daughter as a high-functioning AS. She has other issues also but some

just fit the form of AS. My daughter is repetitive, she gets stuck on one thing

and talks about it forever, then switches to another object, person or animal

and everything is about that and everyone she sees she tells them about it

(right now it's tarantulas). She talks to herself, she likes to stay in her room

by herself, she talks about other kids in school and some do call and she texts

them but she never does anything with other kids and she never has them over.

She is very literal and although she can joke around she just doesn't get when

someone else is joking, or it's just a saying, or cliche, or exaggerating.

Her anger can be extreme sometimes, she says she does not like herself and 2

years ago she was cutting herself. Now about a week ago I found out she is

scratching herself when she gets angry, she had stopped hurting herself but now

it is back. She takes 80mg of Prozac and 375 mg of wellbutrin. She also picks at

herself till she bleeds. She is so naive, and the kids at school love to pick on

her and call her weirdo and make fun of the way she dresses or whatever they

can. Yesterday it was because she blew her nose.

She is 16 and I feel like no one listens to me and they all treat me like I am

so over protective and overdramatic about my daughter because she looks fine

when you meet her and she is intelligent and an excellent writer. She writes

poems and stories but they are very dark, this concerns me but I do not want to

discourage her wonderful gift of writing. She also makes jewelry and sculpts

minatures. But this same child mimicks what other people do, good or bad, talks

like a baby at home, very high pitched, she calls me by different names that she

makes up, she has done that since she was a baby.

If you had the courage to read this far, thank you. I am at my wits end. This

child is almost an adult and I need to help her to be a successful one, but I

feel I am failing and don't know where to turn and if the doctors are telling me

the correct thing to do for her.

Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks for listening and allowingme to get

this off my chest.