Your specific symptoms of AS

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Besides the following there are a few things I would like to be specific about, it says sensitivity to certain senses well mine are my sight and my sense of smell. I can't think of anything else at this time but please post your specific symptoms of asperger's syndrome.

I took these from Wikipedia when I first found out about what having asperger's meant and I feel these are the most active of my symptoms and/or are most related to me in one way or another:

abnormalities of social interaction and communication that pervade the individual's functioning,
and by restricted and repetitive interests and behavior.

and by no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or general delay in language.

Intense preoccupation with a narrow subject, one-sided verbosity, restricted prosody,
and physical clumsiness are typical of the condition

and impaired nonverbal behaviors in areas such as eye contact, facial expression, posture, and gesture.

Unlike those with autism, people with AS are not usually withdrawn around others; they approach others, even if awkwardly,
for example by engaging in a one-sided, long-winded speech about a favorite topic while misunderstanding
or not recognizing the listener's feelings or reactions, such as need for privacy or haste to leave.
This social awkwardness has been called "active but odd".
This failure to react appropriately to social interaction may appear as disregard for other people's feelings,
and may come across as insensitive.
The cognitive ability of children with AS often lets them articulate social norms in a laboratory context,
where they may be able to show a theoretical understanding of other people's emotions;
they typically have difficulty acting on this knowledge in fluid, real-life situations, however.

People with Asperger syndrome often display behavior, interests,
and activities that are restricted and repetitive and are sometimes abnormally intense or focused. They may stick to inflexible routines,
move in stereotyped and repetitive ways, or preoccupy themselves with parts of objects

Individuals with AS may collect volumes of detailed information on a relatively narrow topic such as
dinosaurs or deep fat fryers, without necessarily having genuine understanding of the broader topic.
For example, a child might memorize camera model numbers while caring little about photography.

Stereotyped and repetitive motor behaviors are a core part of the diagnosis of AS and other ASDs.
They include hand movements such as flapping or twisting, and complex whole-body movements.
These are typically repeated in longer bursts and look more voluntary or ritualistic than tics, which are usually faster,
less rhythmical and less often symmetrical.

Children with AS may have an unusually sophisticated vocabulary at a young age and have been colloquially called "little professors",
but have difficulty understanding figurative language and tend to use language literally.

Many accounts of individuals with AS and ASD report other unusual sensory and perceptual skills and experiences.
They may be unusually sensitive or insensitive to sound, light, touch, texture, taste, smell, pain, temperature,
and other stimuli

They may be poorly coordinated, or have an odd or bouncy gait or posture, poor handwriting,
or problems with visual-motor integration.

Children with AS are more likely to have sleep problems, including difficulty in falling asleep,
frequent nocturnal awakenings, and early morning awakenings.

Many children with AS are initially misdiagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

including poor communication skills and obsessive or repetitive routines.

Children with AS may require special education services because of their social and behavioral difficulties although many attend regular education classes.

despite high cognitive potential, most young adults with AS remain at home

The "different-ness" adolescents experience can be traumatic.

Anxiety may stem from preoccupation over possible violations of routines and rituals,
from being placed in a situation without a clear schedule or expectations,
or from concern with failing in social encounters; the resulting stress may manifest as inattention,
withdrawal, reliance on obsessions, hyperactivity, or aggressive or oppositional behavior.

Depression is often the result of chronic frustration from repeated failure to engage others socially,
and mood disorders requiring treatment may develop.

There are legal implications for individuals with AS as they run the risk of exploitation by others and may be unable to comprehend the societal implications of their actions.

Boys seem to be more likely to have AS than girls; estimates of the sex ratio range from 1.6:1 to 4:1, using the Gillberg and Gillberg criteria.

Anxiety and depression are the most common other conditions seen at the same time;
comorbidity of these in persons with AS is estimated at 65%.
Depression is common in adolescents and adults; children are likely to present with ADHD.

and the repetitive behaviors of AS have many similarities with the symptoms of
obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

It has been argued that the genes for Asperger's combination of abilities have operated throughout
recent human evolution and have made remarkable contributions to human history.

What directly are those symptoms, from the middle personal perspective, when you are looking at the world and thinking?

I feel the list you gave applies vaguely to someone with AS. I for example have AS but I have always been athletic (hence, I'm not clumsy). The list does not account for the unique, individual traits that will vary from Aspie to Aspie.

You did a big list of the different asperger traits, that you go, yeah I have that, for.

What about how these things really are acted out though. Like, hmm.

When I am learning, too much of my processor is being taken up by formulating a new level of idea. Therefore, My hearing reduces and my cognitive thought plummets. If I don't take enough time to process and associate new information with the rest of my awareness, then normal, everyday tasks are reduced in effectiveness.

Like I can't hear what the teacher says next; therefore, I can't learn anymore than is already being processed.

How do you walk through your life? Tell me little stories maybe?

There are one or two basic abnormalities, and perhaps a couple of basic normalities, that distinguish aspergers from normal, or other autistic variants.

Abnormal is the failure to develop the monkey see, monkey do pattern that forms the foundation for socialisation and for "theory of mind". Abnormal too, although probably related, is a physical clumsiness or awkwardness.

The failure of that basic machinery for fitting in leads, developmentally, to a wide variety of adaptive responses or failures to learn.

Being normally, or sometimes abnormally, smart within that context leads again to a wide variety of developmental outcomes and forms of mental activity.

Key among the secondary adaptations are frustration and withdrawing from the interactions that experience teaches us don't work.

Past that, it's the specific occasions of disaster from which we learn what works and what doesn't that shape our growth. And, as time goes on, the specific combinations that lead to lowering the constant crippling stress that lead to our adult personalities.

PeterD

And that is all that can be said at the core of it all.

With minor exceptions or variances, that applies as wholly as it can be, for what it is that we work with. Thankyou. I needed to hear that.

Not covering social function due to obviousness(Thanks peers, and your pressure:P). Enjoy, laugh, grin, and reply:

-When the sun is directly out, and even with certain bright lightbulbs, and even the EVE online sun-_- I cannot bare opening my eyes for more then one or two seconds when such a lightball's in my field of vision.

-Although I don't generally mind all too much attention to my sense of smell, my sense of taste is MARVELLOUS. Not only can i analyze the ingredients, flavours and textures of any dish, I can also make them apparent to others. Huge weakpoint though: Anything bitter reviles me. Always has. Just so happens that using aforementioned skill, I described my mild antipsychotics as "A condensed trainwagon-load of earwax" >.< Oh blissful irony -_-

-I'm very sensitive regarding audio. Hearing the ENTIRE schoolclass twitter is a daily torture. Hearing shards of gossip: A good boon. But the real beauty has been the fact that anything I hear goes STRAIGHT to my brain. From music(Which I apply to dramatically sway my moods any way I want to, and can also repeat word-for-word..but..don't...unless karaoke'in...But it also works very well regarding quotes. Funny quotes especially.

-My imagination is quite literally, boundless. And it's huge too. I can keep track of several different visually represented "things" whilst narrating to myself. Ironically, it's not really speach but more like pure concept that flows through my brain. Benefit: I can plan the most grandióse of things, and actually have them work. Downside: Conveying it to other people is not only time-consuming but highly irritating. Also breeds arrogance.

-My concious mind, unconcious mind and body have a VERY strong link. Upside: I can not only monitor but also alter the conditions of my body in rather spooky ways. Entering a meditative state is very easy to me, as are other ways of "hacking" otherwise inaccessible controls. Downside: There's feedback. Such as an upset tummy due to stress or my mind being overcome by things such as the desire to stay in my waaaarm bed for just a LITTLE LONGER, the obvious pain&panic duo: Lust and Infatuation, and aforementioned overloads of external stimuli leading to "I can't control anything so I'll control the angulair velocity of this desk/vase/monet/manet"-stress. AKA: Tear-yer-own-hair-out-stress.

I have no inputfilter nor an outputfilter. That's a bad thing. And a good thing. Social things are already spoken for, or will be, soon. The physical ones are just funnier/cooler.

Thank you all for posting, it was very informative.

Well, I have a mild case of Aspergers. And, like most, I have a problem with being social.

I have a "strange" habit of keeping my feet cold in my house. Whilst everyone likes having warm feet, mine are cold, enough to shock a sweating-hot person out of sleep.
Another problem. If I go to have a shower with mostly hot water, one of my feet is slightly painfully sensitive to the hot water. I bothers me, of course.

I have a loose grasp of knowlage for English and Math in class. I find both subjects increasingly difficult now, since I'm in grade nine, and I struggle. My average in math class is 52.8

I'm stubborn when it comes to asking for help. I always want to try things on my own, even if anyone is there to help me. I'm also afraid to ask, and I never raise my hand. Ever.

Although the teachers say the school is mostly made up of good high school students, I'm still intimidated, even by someone my own age. They seem so coldblooded with thier harsh swearing and hanging around in groups in the hall. At the end of the day, they hang around in their groups near the entrance of the school. I hustle by them quickly, as I don't know any other exits.
I have managed to make a "friend". He's talkative (he claims only in art that he is), mostly carrying out one-way conversations. I don't know whether to call him a friend or not.
Girls have been teasing that we were officially boyfriend and girlfriend. Heck, we don't know each other's phone numbers or where each other lives! I don't even have a cell phone!
Plus, one girl tried to give me his phone number, but only managed to squeeze the first three digits out of him.

I used to have obbessions when I was younger, but not any more.

Last but not least, I feel completely alone. There doesn't seem to be anyone in my school like me. I don't think there is anyone in my school that refuses to be mean and swear.

Well, that's all I'll blab, so that you won't get bored of my typing.

I used to walk a little strangely but it somewhat normalised, as did my awareness of it,
I don't like eye contact with people, because I know they're almost always thinking something horrible about me,
I can never tell when a girl likes me, though I'm starting to pick up on small things like eye contact,
I talk continually, not really caring if the other person is interested,
I tend to panic when I'm shut in a room with people and I'm expected to be sociable with, not that anyone ever notices,
My voice sounds weird (then again, everyone thinks that, don't they).