How Bad Is Your AS?

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I'm always loud. Beat that!

If I do have AS, it's probably not too bad, I guess. At least I can function pretty decently in my job...though it's a job I sort of lucked in to, and although it's probably way below my potential, it is in a field I love. I don't know what I'd do without it.

I have zero social life, and I really want to figure out what's "wrong" with me so at least I know, and maybe can come up with ways to deal with my life better.

I pretty much like who I am, most of the time. I wouldn't want to all of a sudden be a social person who has to be talking to and hanging around people all the time to be happy, but I do wish I knew how to do social stuff and had SOME friends.

My AS scores on the Internet tests put me somewhere between AS and NT. I have a 99/200 on the AS/NT test and a 29/50 on the AQ. I am, I believe one of the more fortunate ones. I have a job I love that I perform well and have been working at that job for almost five years. I am active on a Siamese cat club and have a lot of friends there. My strengths are a good memory, ability to read quickly and absorb a lot of factual material and well-rounded interests.

My difficulties are now obvious only to myself: I tend to be clumsy, to do dumb things that embarrass me and, I suspect, I have a mild degree of prosopagnosia (face blindness). I notice when I watch the news, I can't readily identify some people when they're standing in crowds.

I have accomplished quite a few big things (four college degrees), but I don't have a driver's license and could never hope to match my mother's expertise in cooking. It is not likely that I will get married. I will be one of those women who bears the title, "Crazy Cat Lady." (Actually, I'm that already). I don't rule out the idea of marriage but I don't count on it. I am more interested in getting a full time job first.

I wish I knew for sure what those tests mean, or I scored more definitively. On that test that's out of 200 I got 116/200 on the Aspie score, and a 98/200 on the NT score.

On the AQ score I got a 34 last time I took it (always around that range, 34-36ish)...which again seems like it's right on the verge, and doesn't mean anything, maybe. On those systemizing quotient/empathy quotient tests I scored really high on one, and totally normal on the other (don't remember which or what they mean).

I was quite bad at diagnosis, but am now practically borderline.

Mine is moderate

I used to think mine was pretty bad in some areas but now I realize it's not AS at all and it's something else so mine is mild, maybe very. I have gotten better as I got older. I am more felxible now and I am not so rigid in my routines and patterns as I used to be.

I don't see it as good or bad - it just is. The question is how well do you adpat? Adaptation takes time.

i would say i am aspie/NT borderline
i even took an online test that says i have both aspie and nt traits

My AS is pretty average I guess. I'm a standard Aspie. I cope with it pretty well, but a lot of that is luck. I have very supportive people around me.

I don't see it as bad at all, so I can't say "how bad..."

never really comperd to anyone but i think it is mild

Not altogether that bad. Though I am a social misfit.

Of course, if it was worse... I'd be one bad-AS mofo...

Mine is very good, lets me make so many things that NTs can never dreamt with!

I must have it the worst here.

Mine's okay.
Despite the fact that I can't look the opp. gender in the eye...