Conditions associated/commonly seen with Asperger's?

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LOL, at "normal person thing." Something about the way you phrased that just cracks me up - I think I'll start using that phrase, myself. Long before I ever knew much of anything about Asperger's, I'd always ask my husband what was "normal" and what was not. Most of my own "weird stuff" I always kept to myself, so he's the only person I've ever sort of compared notes with, to see how weird Weird REALLY is. My husband has some Aspergian traits, and was always a very smart oddball, buthis thought processes are so different from my own and our kids, that he's close enough to Normal to be able to explain things I always privately wondered about.

I never understood why women, and even some men, hide their weight. If you're very fat, people can guess your weight is high, so who's being fooled? I almost never weigh myself, as I've always looked lighter than I am, so it's never been much use. But when I say that I don't know what I weigh (seriously, if I guessed, I'd say something around 150-160), no one ever believes me, and people just assume "all women are sensitive about their weight." :/


My verbal ability is profound; I was one of those little freaky toddlers who spoke like an adult. My non-verbal abilities are uneven, I would suspect. In some ways, I'm absolutely brilliant. In others, I'm probably average-to-above-average, but so much "slower" that it makes me feel retarded.

I was really shocked when my kids did not just naturally learn language as fast as I did, as well as reading. It had never occured to me that one might have to teach a smart kid how to read, or that smart kids did not all speak so well, at say, two years old. Our kids were not delayed, speech-wise, but they were all on the "slow" end of the normal range, starting out, then almost overnight, developed extensive speech. Reading, however, has gone much more slowly; none of them are interested the way I was. Then again, they lead much more well-rounded, happy little lives than I did, which may have something to do with that.

Anyway, it was that uneven profile of intelligence that finally made everything real for me. I'd spent my whole life thinking I was "just weird," and possibly mentally disabled in some peculiar way, due to my habit of screw-ups and misunderstandings. Seeing my kids manifesting the same behaviors and eccentricities gave me pause. But I still kept telling myself that most likely it was all in my head, until we decided to have our oldest daughter evaluated for the Gifted program. Out of curiousity, I dug out my old Gifted evaluation, and it was all there. A slap-in-the-face reminder of what I'd been like, as a child. And that glaring 29-point gap in my scores (which no one thought much of, as it was like, 1987, lol).

I told the psychologist who administered our daughter's IQ test, and she just sort of gave me the weird eye. Then she saw our daughter's scores...and then our son's, and ended up confused and alarmed, lol.




So far, so good, on his writing. He's only now become interested in reading or writing (just so he can better use Google image search, lol), so his writing is sort of crap, right now. But it looks about as good as the average kid just learning to write. Weirdly enough, he's currently having some kind of explosive growth, in art, so that helps. His older and younger sisters are both fantastic artists, far beyond their age levels, but up until very recently, he was well below age-level, at drawing. Got very angry/frustrated, on the rare occasions he even wanted to try it.

Then one day, he just suddenly started drawing, and at about the same time, writing his name and words relating to his interests. Within a few weeks, he made a couple years worth of progress.

So, for whatever strange reason, I kind of think we may have dodged a bullet, with that one. I'd love to know what finally clicked over, in his brain, to make that possible.

I can sooo relate.
What I really want to do is brag about my kids, but no one would get it.

I'd get it. My kid's pretty awesome too!