Am I an aspie? I have no clue, any opinions appreciated.

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Mine looks like a handsomely-formed man with long, flowing hair.

My hippie hair got nixed by my grandmother 2 days ago. Oof.

How does it look now?

Mine's actually a lot longer (mid-back) than the picture I'm using as my avatar, but I couldn't fit my latest photo in and had to settle with this one.

I find thicker hair in general to be more attractive on either gender, it doesn't have to be too long.

Goes to my ears... >.< My hair is honestly the most challenging bit of maintaining my weirdo aspie self. I feel considerably more natural looking as if I've just stumbled out of a tent, but I will comb it down once I can actually headbang. And then everyone starts whining to my face about it because I can only guess they all wish to look the same. Even one haircut a year is way too much, but there's also a little shoulder devil telling me to buzz it down to 2 inches..

Raldia911. All that sounds pretty aspieish. Actually it sounds like my own struggles as a young/younger person. It all gave me a pretty lousy self-esteem, because it wasn´t understood - so do take your description with you to the psych. and maybe add a little about your early milestones, if you didn´t do that already.
Good luck.

My boat probably wouldn't be a boat, I get seasick. :/
Nice, I have a a goal to grow my hair to terminal length all the way till it will simply grow no longer.

Thank you for the advice; my self esteem is indeed extremely low and I am feeling a bit better just talking to all of you guys, you all make me smile. Unfortunately I can't think of many early childhood minestones I had panic attacks and an over active imagination but who didn't? (The imagination part that is.)

^ It's always good to talk it out and I'm glad we all make you smile. (I don't like boats either!)

In terms of your early childhood, could you talk to your parents or other people who knew you as a child? They might be able to give hints as to what your behaviour was like or at what age you started talking, for example.

I know it's probably supposed to be a rhetorical question, but I didn't.

As for bringing it up with the psychologist, you don't have to. You could let them ask the questions and see what they come up with. It's up to you. I'm not sure it matters much either way. Both have advantages and disadvantages.

For everything an aspie can mention, someone can say "Who doesn´t?". You can´t say "this trait is definitely ASD" and be sure. The overall picture is the key, so even if you are not alone in having had experiences like that, it has to be told.

The only time I got seasick was when I went on a fishing excursion.

The waves were really rocky and I literally lost my lunch, lol. It was a fun trip though, we caught a few fish and made it out safely without me puking on everyone.

I'd like a single waterplane area twin hull cat.
My sea legs were inherited, but these ships made them nearly obsolete.

Myriad-I guess I just don't know what to ask, I know that I was obsessive, severely emotions and that I didn't know when it was my turn to talk... but i can't think if too much other stuff, and honestly with my parents, when i ask them about my childhood they don't remember much, they both worked and I was raised by a nanny. I can talk to her though because I am still fairly close with her but I just have to time it right, she is busy a lot.

iliketrees-I see, I guess I just thought that it was something all kids had, opps. So far I have and a lot of the stuff that is going on my psychologist associates with me being in a stressful time.

Jensen- Thank you and yeah, I will try to get everything that I can about my traits. Full picture.

I think most kids probably did have overactive imaginations, but mine has always been extremely limited. I had no imaginative play as a kid.

The psychologist may be right. They're a professional with a lot of relevant experience seeing you face to face, WP members are just random internet people only seeing what you choose to write down. However, if you believe it's worth bringing up, you could mention it and see what they make of it. It might be worth mentioning if it's impairing you.

The problem is that I have never ever mentioned to her anything about that, the only assessment she has ever given me was for my anxiety level and we have simply been focusing entirely on how to handle my anxiety. I have never mentioned to her that I have problems with socializing and she has commented that I don't make eye contact often. Otherwise it have been entirely focused on how to calm my anxiety.

Apart fron insomnia, anxiety is the most difficult symptom I have anyway. Nearly everything else for me turned out to be physiological or nutritional.

Maybe try telling her about your difficulties socializing then. Problems with eye contact and with socializing can also be caused by anxiety. If you're treated for the anxiety, be it through medication or therapy, and the problems are still there then it's possible there's an underlying cause. Just be honest with her about the problems you're having and see what she says about it would be my suggestion.