Of all the Aspergers symptoms, which ones DON'T apply to you

Post Reply New Topic

For both diagnosed and undiagnosed to answer

I don't: (that I'm aware of anyway)
-have the repetitive motions like hand flapping or tapping feet
-high intelligence
-I'm not sure that I miss facial cues
-inappropriate behaviour such as laughing when I'm not supposed to

I have all of those.

I don't know if this is correct or not, but I think that I have read that some Aspies aren't necessarily empathetic because they miss the social cues that would trigger empathy.

My son (14 years) has amazing empathy. He may not pick up on other things, but boy, he really gets it when someones is upset or sad.

I think I pick on up on most cues and am able to read people relatively well. I don't monologue but I have in the past, it's something I'm definitely able to control. I usually don't correct people unless it's really necessary but that's something I used to do also. My special interests aren't ALL that odd, maybe random and a little odd for my age, they always have been, but just as obsessive.

Pretty much everything else applies to me. I'm 25 and I still stim like crazy(even hand-flapping) but never around people.

I have empathy, but only after I am brought to understand whatever it is that the other person is feeling. Otherwise no clue, no empathy if I'm not aware there's anything to empathize with. Although I don't tap or flap hands/feet, I do constantly pick at the ends of my fingers with adjacent fingers. I used to tap my foot a lot, but got in trouble at school for it and broke the habit I guess.

Beyond that, I have all of the other criteria for Asperger's.

Charles

I don't approach people, or monologue irl (I don't think so anyway)

i'm not that obsessed about routines...

Fear of people and crowds.

I'm able to read expressions perfectly, and yet looking into peoples' eyes is still like pushing two like-polarity magnets together, and when I took an empathy test I scored well below normal. I'm face blind, though, so there is something wrong with that section of my brain. A lot of Aspies want friendship and to be in society, but their inability to read people prevents them from forming meaningful relationships.... me, I can form a meaningful relationship easily, I just have absolutely no desire to, no desire for society at all.

And I don't give a *BLEEP!* about bus schedules. Other than that, I have all the traits.

Me neither. I don't enjoy reading license plate numbers either. I also couldn't tell you the exact date of the blizzard of 1888 or how many inches of snow fell in the city of Poughkeepsie CT on said date even though I'm a meteorologist. I'm math enthusiast, yet I can't tell people what day of the week they were born in 3 seconds after they tell me it's their birthday. I also can't state the first 100 digits of pi.

The savent / trivia-freak autism stereotype is annoying since I generally hate trivia as well as all pointless memorization of meaningless data and/or calculations. I always prefer THEORY and general concepts, not meaningless concrete crap.

+1

I don't have the "lack of empathy" thing, just because I don't always understand it doesn't mean that I don't have it or that I'm incapable of feeling it.

The more I studied the disorder and came to understand what some of those dry clinical descriptions actually mean, as opposed to what they seem to mean on first read, I've come to realize there isn't a single AS trait I don't have to one degree or another. Its the clinical language that's misleading.

That's why the discussions about empathy, theory of mind, emotional reciprocity and such keep coming up here over and over endlessly, because they seem to be describing things that don't apply, but once you get a grasp of what they're actually referring to, it kinds of makes you back up and say "Oh...well, that is me then."

Same here.

Ha...I bugged my psychologist so much wondering if I was AS, she sat down with me and went over each diagnostic criteria. I tried to get her to explain them or give examples, and there were quite a lot that she couldn't do it/had a hard time. It is hard to understand.

Attention to details

I have really pretty handwriting I can't draw though