Do you act aspieish?

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My husband who is an Aspie is more like a 10 when at home which is most of the time.
He can't read body language although he has no problem talking to people, but he doesn't read when they have had enough. Or wheather they are interested or not.
When around others his a 7-8, but with family a definate 10.

public i can manage a 3-4 if nobody talks to me
talkinig sends it up 4-6 depending on subject

and at home 7-10 depending on stress

I would say about a 1 or 2. However, my beloved wife will insist that it is more around 9 or 10. I've developed coping skills somewhat over the years. I consistently remind myself to "act normal".

In public I'm usually between 3 and 9 depending on my mood

Around my family I'm probably 1-4.

When I'm alone I'm in the 4-8 range.

I'm 2-9 when talking to people depending on the subject.

I'd say 3-5 among people, 4-8 when I'm alone. And anything up to 10 when having a breakdown.

My wife would probably disagree.

I guess about a 6-7.

*shrugs*

I've noticed our son has certain places I call "aspie" places because no matter how good a day he is having, he becomes a full 10 when we go there. He is 11, and aware of his dx and sometimes of his issues. He doesn't get the social thing at all which causes him the most 10's I think.

At home, when all is calm and the schedule is adhered to, he can shrink as far down as a 3-4. Then he'll come out to the living room and launch into a monologue on atomic weights and bounce right back up to a 7.

2 or 3, probably, for people who don't know me well, who I see maybe once or twice a week. The closer I am to someone the higher I'd rate...all the way up to probably 8 or 9 with my family

Some times I can manage a 1 or a 2. But I said eairler 8 or 10 because I havn't socialised much last year at all so im not sure any more of where I sit now. But I will soon see as im going back to studying on Feb 13th.

Im not overly sure of how I should anwser this I know I am about a 10 around my brother.

For a moment or two, I read this as your son being an 11 on the scale, at times.

Me too, exactly.

Had the scale gone higher, I would have.

It is wonderful for me (and him) to be able to get an "inside look" to a certain degree of the thoughts and feelings of older aspies. He's a very bright boy, and wants a good future. I am more hopeful now then I was before that he can attain his goals. And if there's furniture left in my house when he does it, all the better!! !

I don't know what I'd rate, mainly because I know so few other aspies I could compare my behavior against. All I *really* know is that I'm not NT.

I find my ability to cope and interact runs just the opposite of Mockingbird, up to a point. I'm generally uncomfortable with strangers and tend to misunderstand the context of the conversation, get lost on tangents, and do or say really stupid things. The more stressed I get, the more aspie I feel and the more aspie I seem to become externally. When I'm with people I know and trust reasonably well (coworkers, friends I see regularly) I feel and act more NT because I'm less stressed and because over time we learn how to communicate more effectively (i.e. my coping mechanisms are more effective). The bell curve then goes the other way, and I become more aspie again when I'm with intimate friends or when I'm alone, because then I let my guard down completely and don't even try to behave NT. It's just like the alcohol curve -- a few beers will allow me to socialize in a much more NT-like way because I relax and don't get as uncomfortable around strangers, but once I'm really drunk the pretense of being NT evaporates completely.

I'm sure he'll be fine. My son, who's an aspie too, used to chew on furniture--we have bite marks all over the house--but he's all but stopped now. He focuses on his T-shirts instead.

And he's 11, too, BTW. He says he's going to be an egyptologist when he grows up, and I'm sure he'll make it if he still wants to when he's old enough.

That's so weird. I thought I was the only person who did that. When I was young I used to chew on all the furniture in my bedroom, starting with the crib (I ate all of the paint off of both crib rails), and then the bunk-beds, chairs, stair railings, etc. I didn't stop doing that until I was about 10 years old, at which time I started eating pencils and wooden rulers at school. It was a bit embarrasing trying to write notes with a 2-inch long piece of splintered wood, but I just couldn't help myself. I guess I ate about 2 pencils a week. Rulers took a lot longer. When I got my AS diagnosis, the first thing my mother asked was whether they had tested me for lead poisoning because of all the paint I swallowed over the years....

I realized very early that nobody in this world has any authority and that anyone who believes that there is a flawless authority system of any kind is just fooling themselves, and since i realized that i have been as much of an individual as i possibly could, and i kind of stand out as a total weirdo. But not all of my behaviors are classical aspie behaviors. Despite that, i hope my weirdness allows me to score an 11.

"I'm a model, you know what i mean, and i do my little turn on the catwalk
yeah on the catwalk, yeah on the catwalk yeah, i shake my little tush on the catwalk"