Autisitc/AS traits in order of prominence

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1) Can't stop thinking/living in own world a lot of the time
2) Total inertia in all areas
3) Obsessive interests
4) Inability to express appropiate emotions
5) Lack of facial expression with others
6) Can't do small talk
7) Stimming (rocking and pacing)
Difficulties when plans are changed suddenly
9) Sensitivity to light
10) Niavete

Hey I just been looking at the replies and there are quite a few I missed out that should have been high on my list!

1.) Detail-Oriented Thinking
2.) Executive Dysfunction
3.) Sensory Issues
4.) Special Interests
5.) Egocentricity
6.) Inertia
7.) Low Tolerance For Spontaneity
8.) Verbal/Non-Verbal Communication Difficulties
9.) Social Deficits
10.) Lost In Thought

The first half of this was easier to organize. The second half took me forever and I finally just quit thinking about what order they should go in.

1. Synaesthesia (mirror-touch, number-form and colour-olfactory)
2. Alexithymia
3. Tactile, auditory and light hypersensitivity
4. Auditory processing disorder
5. Prosopagnosia
6. Repetitive thoughts, echolalia and verbal tics
7. Obsessive and pedantic nature
8. Strong inertial tendency
9. Perpetual multi-channel stimming and repetitive motion
10. Solitary and often silent nature

I only get 10? There's not much difference between #1 and #10. No room for special interests, other than part of #6 and #7, or asexuality, which is a topic in its own right. Honourable mention also to gross- and fine-motor clumsiness; relationship cluelessness; perpetual general overall anxiety; sleep disorders; restless legs; no control over facial expressions or vocal tone and poor ability to interpret the same in others; affinity for sameness in clothing, food sequence for doing things; no reciprocal exchanges; and assorted other unspecified issues above the clinical threshold.

1. Lack of social and emotional reciprocity (especially "seeking to share")
2. Impaired ability to identify social cues and conventions
3. Unsure how to make the "next step" after small talk
4. Difficulty knowing who to trust
5. Difficulty knowing how much to "open up" emotionally to potential friends
6. Sensory Issues (makes it difficult to join in many social events - parties, etc.)
7. Difficulty following the thread of a conversation, if too many people are involved
8. Executive Dysfunction
9. Tendency to be pedantic
10. Preference for routine and consistency

These are the traits that make life difficult for me. Other traits (stimming, special interests, etc.) may be more prominent - but I see them as inconsequential (i.e. not clinically significant.)

Can someone explain to me what executive function is? I don't understand. What does it mean when people say they have executive dysfunction?

1. Out of it
2. Stimming
3. Getting very stressed and freaking out or shutting down
4. Making noises that aren't words
5. Obsessions and odd interests
6. Needing a lot of time alone
7. Confusion (eg. forgetting what day it is) / disorganisation
8. Being pedantic
9. Not knowing what is the correct thing to say in a situation / being unintentionally rude
10. Not understanding what people are saying to me

This task is very tricky, and my list is probably innacurate. I think one of the things about AS is that some of the most noticable things to others may be things I'm completely unaware of.

Executive dysfunction means lot of things but I don't think it's actually a condition because everyone has it due to these following things:


Forgetting to do things
Losing things
Disorganization
Unmotivation
Troubles getting things started


Here is more information about it:

http://home.comcast.net/~kskkight/EFD.htm

Thank you for posting that Spokane_Girl! Executive dysfunction seems to be the difficulties with work and learning. I don't have much executive dysfunction, looking at that list, but I have a feeling I might have had much more of it when I was younger.

I wish I could this but I cannot. My impairments differ in severity and how often they are discovered/how often a situation asks for what I cannot do and the severity is in no way related to how well I can cope with the symptom.

I'd have to make two lists. But the one of severity would only go to 4-5, because most symptoms are pretty much on the same level.

1. Obsessive interests and monologues on said interestes.
2. Sensory issues.
3. Need for sameness and routine/hatred of change. (I'm including "anxiety of new things" in this one.)
4. Frequent meltdowns/moodiness.
5. Hatred of crowds/great desire to be alone.
6. Visual-spatial deficits. (This is both my NVLD and my AS. This includes horrible navigation skills, problems with differentiating right and left, difficulties judging depth and distance, problems seeing in 3D, etc.)
7. Problems with executive functioning/multi-tasking.
8. Perfectionism.
9. Clumsiness.
10. Not fitting in with most of my peers. (I am not horribly socially deficit, nor do I care about fitting in and having friends, so this is last. )
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marshall wrote:

Lack of a social "decoder"
Can't multitask
Obsessional thinking
Excessively literal minded
Hyperfocus on one thing to the exclusion of everything else
Getting lost in thought when I'm supposed to be doing something
Inertia
Can't stand light
Being in my own world then that 'Oh s**t' moment when I neglect something important
s**t at regulating emotions. Piss me off or get me anxious, and my glands won't calm down for 2 days or so.

!.Obsessive interest
2.Uneven skill level (Great at Boolean Algebra suck a regular Algebra)
3.Photographic memory
4.Poor social skills can't look anyone in the eye or
do small talk.
5.Social anxiety
6.Sencory Disfunction(Can't stand loud noises or being touched.
Morbid fear of physical intimacy)
7.Need for routine.
8.Poor organizational skills
9.Stimming (Pacing rubbing hands together)
10.Detail oriented

1. obsessive interests\
2. social awkwardness/ not good at small talk
3. Clumsiness/ poor motorskills
4. auditory processing (for example not picking up what people are saying)
5. day dreamy/always thinking
6. executitive dysfunction/ unorganised
7. eye contact problems
8. Not good at regulating emotions/ expressing them properly
9. stimming
10. touch and light sensitivity

1. executitive dysfunction/ unorganised
2. Clumsiness/ poor motorskills
3. auditry processing (for examlple not picking up what peolpe are saying)
4. day dreamy/always thinking
5. obsessive interests
6. Not good at regulating emotions/ expressing them properly
7. touch and light sensitivity
8. stimming
9. social awkwardness/ not good at small talk
10. eye contact problems


2.,3.,4., are pretty much on par. Social awkwardness in general would be higher up than social awkwardness specifically relating to small talk (which I have mastered pretty well). Eye contact I fixed years ago.

The clumsiness for me is actually a pretty big thing (more than what other people seem to have put). People are often shocked when they see my legs (which are always black and blue with bruises from walking into things) and ask what happened, not realizing they are always like that. I have cuts, scratches, and other bruises all over my body all the time that I don't know the origin of. I often walk into things without realizing how, like I'm walking past a pillar and I somehow hit it hard with one side even though I'm sure I calculated correctly the distance between me and it.

The clumsiness is more prominent the more tired I am too.

Executive dysfunction is a massive problem for me.