<p>This has been a serious topic of frustration and I don't know whether this was even the right forum to submit it to. I don't know if anyone has been in a similar situation, but I'll try to keep this to the point. I have had serious absent-mindness my whole life and attention problems. My parents are the type of people who were unwilling to go to the doctor unless I had broken an arm or were very concerned about my well-being. They're basically cheapskates but with good reason: they racked up a ton of credit card debt in their twenties. They're still paying it off in their forties. I was very troubled by my senior year of high school and my family was in a financial crisis because 2008 was a bad year for the economy (we had just moved to California because my dad retired from the Air Force and hadn't sold off our house yet). But with my mom having to leave us to live there and get a job down there, we had bought ourselves a little more time before we would really be out of a house. I was troubled during my senior year of high school and my dad got me a psychologist to take a look at me - she diagnosed me with Asperger's. We had no money to get testing. There's no way we could even do anything half-and-half. </p>
<p>We had since been able to sell the house and mom lives back at home with us. I attend a community college now. I've been having trouble with keeping focused on important things like school. My grades are all over the place. But we still don't have proper funds to get me tested and especially now because my sister is just starting college this fall and I'm not even sure if I can afford to buy/rent all my school books. And all of the gas and money I need to spend to just get out of this community college I'm stuck in. In addition to this, ever since Spring '10 it took over a year for doctors and specialists to figure out I had an allergy problem, which heightened my problems by making me feel horrible every day. I must've had literally 20-30 appointments in the last year. But all I have is a memory of being diagnosed by the psychologist, not really any concrete evidence I have in my hands saying she diagnosed me with it. I'm having so much trouble focusing on school and I'm trying to raise my major GPA desperately because I want to get into a good school that's close to home.</p>
<p>I guess the question is...would they seriously look into my personal statement (digging up medical history) if I wrote about me having asperger's?</p>