types of aspies

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This talk (and other similar threads) made me think that perhaps the diagnosis of AS had transformed itself in something different from the original intention.

AFAIK, when, in the 1980s, some researcher begin to explore the concept of "Asperger's Syndrome", the idea was, exactly, to have a name from some "patients" who have impairments similar to autism, but that are "active but odd" instead of "aloof" - basically, sociable and verbose autistics (more or less the same thing that your "loud" type).

However, apparently, the diagnosis gained, instead, the connotation of , simply, mild autism, being applied to people who are "quiet, reserved and shy".

Autism (and AS) only states that there are social impairments. The ways they manifest can be totally different.

yeah people by nature are unique, and thus every aspie as also unique, i only ran into 1 other person though with internal tv, or knew about it in some way.

be nice if their were more people like that.

back when i was on jetfox my old account i started talking to others about things i did or felt etc...

some people got some of the things i talked about, fantasy, the internal tv, warped logic, and other things. but i couldn't find many who understood very much no matter how much i described everything. and at some point i started to doubt i was an aspie, i lost my own identity and went through meltdown after meltdown. i asked to be banned thinking i was not like anyone that no one could relate. i now know that no one can relate but i went back to accepting that i was broken, and oddly enough that gives me peace.

my mom is usually shocked at what my internal tv can do, but i am not because to me it is normal.

i find that expecting others to not give a crap about me, or understand me helps comfort me. so when i do get attacked i already saw it coming. [not placing blame here this is just what i use to comfort myself.

I think another way to categorize us is between aspies who want to try for social interaction and those who don't care.

Which is funny because Asperger's original cases were all pretty aloof - they'd talk back to you if you initiated interaction, Aloofness was the essence of the condition as far as he was concerned, that's why he called it autistic psychopathy.

Also, it's possible to be active-but-odd and low functioning - I knew a nonverbal 15 year old autistic who would readily initiate interaction and even start to pester you if you ignored him!

i'm guessing that would be what i am, i only speak if spoken to. i think i will call myself a classic aspie, i kinda have been for several months now.

I'm definitely more of a quiet Aspie. I tend to keep in the background most of the time and don't like being center stage. OTOH, when I'm around those I'm comfortable with, I can be very chatty.

Hey bro, this video may explain some things that I hope you will find helpful

http://www.caetextia.com/pages/defaultnetwork.html

The site reviewed cases of people who have chronic fatigue syndrome(CFD) and discovered that there is a lot of overlap between people with aspergers and people who have cfd.

I rarely talk out loud. I'd consider myself a silent Aspie.

From the 7th to the 9th grade and even part of the 10th, everyone thought I was a mute. I'm almost certain you can't be any more silent than me. But I could be wrong, this is WP after all.

holy crap what you wrote there is my life in a nutshell. i go through every thing you posted.

Well, I'm going into 10th grade... Maybe things will change?

Things only changed for me because I started taking more difficult classes. It's much easier to have a conversation with students who aren't total morons. The average person in AP Calculus is much farther down on the spectrum than the average person in Introduction to Thumb Twiddling.

I'm aloof and very quiet, but I long for human interaction. I want to get some people's attention, but I'm clueless! I want to have witty conversations and deep emotional connections, but my mind always goes blank around people! It's frustrating!

i watched the link of the video, and i couldn't understand it one bit. he said that aspies cannot daydream, or don't have the internal tv or something. i was thinking um i do do both of those and i am an aspie dxed.

course alot of what he said i couldn't understand because of his accent or the audio of the video wasn't ever good, but i have no clue what he was going on about.

lol I know what you mean! so do you have chronic fatigue syndrome, aspergers, or both? (I have both.)