Too normal to have AS?

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Normal for you is normal for you. I doubt if there is one human being out of six billion of us who is "normal" in every way there is to be normal. None of those of us with pale beige skins are "normal" for the world. None of us with IQs either more or less than 100 is normal. etc. etc. Being in a panic attack is not normal for you, because most of the time you aren't in one. etc.

"What's normal?" is something my mother says. She also says if normal meant there is nothing wrong with you and you aren't perfect, then there be no normal people in the world.

My husband also says "Everyone is normal for themselves"

I used to have an online autistic friend who would say "Normal is just a setting on the washing machine."

ha...thats a good one.

I have many symptoms of AS (difficulty to understand facial expressions,body language,misinterpretation of peoples intentions frequently,getting absorbed,"narrow interests",drawn to objects more than people )
I dont have poor coordination skills(they are good,i play competetive badminton) and no "stereotyped repetitive behavior patterns" never got sensory overload in daily life activities or any oversensetivity to pain.
I am too normal to be on the spectrum?
I am not sure if i have AS or not what are the chances?

First remember that AS is not a disease, it's a "sorting box" of human types. There are about six billion of us altogether: it takes all kinds to make a world.

Tony Attwood writes that an Asperger's diagnosis is like putting together a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle. Some pieces are essential, all the edge and the four corner pieces. After that, you can put together a total of 800 pieces, and you'll have a diagnosis. This leaves out 200 pieces, and for every Aspie there might be a different set of 200. The very, very rare Aspie might have all thousand pieces in his/her makeup. And there's still the background, the tabletop, that all of us share with the rest of humanity, with 200 pieces scattered around there not fitting into the particular puzzle.

I don't think I get "sensory overload". I'm not sure just what _over_sensitivity to pain is. It's a long spectrum, and those rare humans who don't feel pain at all mostly die pretty quickly, unless they watch every move they make for all their lives after they learn what damage _is_, and have to have somebody else watching their back. Most of the Aspie traits can be learned their way around. I wish that I had taken ballet or modern dance classes when I was very young, or that I had worked harder at things like catching a ball. If I had done that, I'd have been better coordinated, but I was a girl in the 1950s, and sports wasn't particularly important to me. I was late tying my shoes, but I worked hard on that (because it was humiliating not to be able to) and then later at things like putting loops through loops, and wound up a champion at knit and crochet, and pretty darn good at Macrame. I'll never stop being an Aspie, but I have beautiful handwriting.

Get diagnosed: then you'll know what to work on. I always knew that I was bad at _recognizing_ faces, but never knew how much communication I was missing, so I didn't work on that either.

Most people would probably pass me as "normal" if a bit strange, though I don't feel "normal" at all - As a matter of fact, of late, I don't feel like I belong with either the AS or NT crowd.
But, I'm diagnosed, so...I must have it!