Can AS decrease? I think mine is

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First of all, sorry for the awkward title.

You guys knows the traits right?
Obsession,ritualized patterns..etc
I had an obsession with snakes and did the same thing over and over as a child
My family would mock me as 'stiff' and 'robotic' and got pissed if I won't look in the eyes.
People would also call me a freak

But as I grow older,currently in my teenage years,
I have no obsession AT ALL. I tried to look people in the eyes and I must say that sometimes it's not really hard.

Somehow my mom stopped calling me 'stiff' and lately a friend was commenting to some people's weird way of walking,
and I asked her 'what do you think about how I walk?' And she said 'Nah, you're normal'
I was like...whoa
As people sometimes makes fun of the way I walk

So what do you think?
Is it a proof that AS' effect can decrease? I didn't take any medication at all

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I'm in the same boat as you. Apparently i had problems with eye contact sometimes when i was younger. But yeah it became a natural thing once i started it. I think most of my lack of eye contact was cos i was worried people would think i was staring.

About a month ago someone told me about theory of mind and that people with AS have trouble with it and im like "what the hell?". It just hadnt occurred to me as being a problem.

Kids often have obsessions they grow out of. My cousin who is almost 10 is crazy about fishing but i doubt its abnormal and hell be over it sometime. Adult obsessions are harder to pinpoint cos everyone has a hobby. I dunno what they class as being ritualistic, etc. I started some things that would be regarded as repetitive but i never managed got very far with any of them.

I made mistakes regarding interacting with girls when i was younger buuut i dont do those now.

Hehe I remember i used to make fun of a kid in primary school for walking funny and not once did anyone say anything like "you're one to talk!" or things like that so i assume im ok with that.

Maybe some of these issues that are automatically solved are just things that havent developed normally cos of lack of experience/confidence and once you get into them the problem is fixed just like that. *snaps fingers*

Sometimes it IS a big deal. No reason to make yourself depressed, but still a big deal.

Anyway, no, this isn't AS "getting better". This is normal development. People naturally become more capable as they grow older; and if they had mild AS as children, they may not be diagnosable as autistic at all in adulthood.

You can have all the experience and confidence in the world, but autistic deficits are real and not just a result of lack of practice; that's why it's called "autism" and not "social phobia". You can have both, of course, but the existence of autistic people who are not socially anxious kind of counters the idea that this is just lack of practice. Not that practice won't make you better at it; but lack of practice isn't the cause.

What you'll have down the road would be sub-clinical or sub-threshold autistic traits. That is what happens when people with a smaller amount of autism than most autistics grow up and learn what they are missing--kind of the way somebody with mild dyslexia might practice often and learn to read about as well as the average person who doesn't specifically practice.

Your parents are ironically right on both counts: You can lose your diagnosis, but you'll always be autistic. When I refer to "autistic" I'm of course referring to the way your brain has developmentally wired itself; this is different from how a typical person's works. You can probably train it to do the same things, if you are indeed closer to typical than most; but chances are you'll always have that different cognitive style. And, I guess, you may also remain culturally Autistic, like some of the adults here who are borderline or no longer qualify for diagnosis, but were definitely Aspies as kids.

Sorry, but I disagree. I don't think AS/Autism could increase or decrease in any form. From my viewpoint, you're merely gaining more confidence in yourself and your actions, which is great news nonetheless. But as JohnnyD017 correctly said, children with or without AS develop obsessions with topics or things that may appeal to them, but can grow out of them at the same speed they developed. Your social skills also improve as you get older and as you do it more often, although of course it takes a lot of courage to dip your toes into the social world's waters at first.

It's a slow process, but confidence in others and your social ability builds up over time, although you will always have Asperger's Syndrome whether it remains a diagnosis or not. As I've found out for myself, obsessions for particular topics or items can sometimes recur, although these will often die out faster than before.

My AS got better. It took time, but before it did I was told that I would only get worse. I can look people in the eye as long as I need to but they never complain when I don't. Remember one thing, if you can convince people you are normal then the most they can think of you is you are just weird.

There is no reason too assume that just because you have a neurological predisposition to develop certain skills later than others that you'll never develop them. There are some things we develop before the NTs and we'll always have an advantage with them as there are somethings the Nts develop before us and they'll always have an advantage with them. I've noticed on some days I'm very close to normal and on others I'm very aspie.

Symptoms of AS can appear to decrease in intensity and things become easier when you get older. It may be because you learn to adapt. The AS never goes away though.

For me social problems and OCD went better being older. I simply have more experience and more judgement now. Sensory issues get worse because it is mainly related to stress and I'm far more stressed by work and my young daughter now than when I was younger.

It definitely can. I've experienced this myself with my sensory issues. I used to not be able to get in a hottub without feeling like I was on fire, but now the only thing like that I notice is I have to wait a little longer than other people to drink hot chocolate.

I feel mine didnt until I accepted AS and learnt more about it. It was only since then that social interaction has improved for me. I think the knowledge has allowed me to learn from social interactions instead of just staying confused.