Which type of aspie are you?

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I am introverted around people I don't know, but if I know someone well, I will talk to them a bit. I can only smile if someone does something really funny.
I am very proud of having AS.
I have loads of obsessions. Every night at 10pm I put my uni textbooks away and engross myself in my obsessions until I go to bed at around 11pm.
I find it hard to express my feelings, and this means I store them up, then suddenly they'll all come out in an explosion of anger.

I tend to be introverted, but try to socialize to "stretch myself" if you will.

I wish I never had AS, but I try to accept it.

Loads of obsessions.

Awkward to express myself, definitely...never do seem to get it right...argh...

~Kate

Are you an extremely introverted aspie or do you prefer to go out and socialise (as best you can Smile )?

I'm a strange one. I'm usually very introverted, but I often like going out to socialize, although now generally only to places where I know there will be someone I know. I also don't necessarily mind certain social pleasantries. If we have to learn that the proper response to "lousy weather we're having" isn't SILENCE, one would expect NTs to be able to do the same thing here, but oftentimes they don't.

Are you the one that wishes he/she never had AS? Or are you proud of it?

I'd not say that I'm proud of it, but I will say that it's made a lot of things I've done a lot easier because I've been able to throw myself headlong into them, and it makes some parts of going to law school a lot easier...when I'm interested in the subject matter, like real property, it's effortless. The flipside of that is that when I'm not interested in something, getting anything done becomes an ordeal.

Are you the aspie with loads of obesessions? Or does nothing seem to capture your attention?

LOADS of obsessions. They often seem to cycle pretty quickly, though. One weird thing about me that NTs probably wouldn't get is that I often WILL listen to the same song over and over again for days on end. I listened to "I'll Never Find Another You" every morning and night multiple times for two straight months. That whole thing didn't work out, and then I ended up listening to the same Husker Du album non-stop for two straight weeks.

Are you the one that finds it awkward to exspress themselves? Or can you feel best when everyone knows what your feeling?

It's awkward for me to express myself in emotional terms, but most people can usually read me pretty well for whatever reason. I've still run into some difficulties with this because certain professors misinterpret my stims for me wanting to say something and then cold-call me in class (although I'll cut the person I'm thinking of some slack because I imagine it has to be difficult to sort something like that out).

I am the extreme introverted one and i have a load of obssession. Yeah that arkward to express myself i feel like i never have right and i am stupid

Are you an extremely introverted aspie or do you prefer to go out and socialise (as best you can )? I prefer not to go out and socialise but I will do so rather well if I have to.

Are you the one that wishes he/she never had AS? Or are you proud of it? I am proud of it!

Are you the aspie with loads of obesessions? Or does nothing seem to capture your attention? Loads of obsessions, some of which being Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Harry Potter and Physics.

Are you the one that finds it awkward to exspress themselves? Or can you feel best when everyone knows what your feeling? I express myself, just very erratically and inappropriately sometimes. I feel awkward when singing a song to someone (in fact, mostly I will refuse to) or showing someone a story I've written as I consider it putting my real emotions on show, and I don't like that.

I don't know if I am an aspie (I could just be a very dysfunctional NT with very severe social issues etc) but if I do turn out to be one I am the type with obsessions who needs a sense of sameness and whom can fluctuate between not feeling like socialising (needing my alone time) and feeling like I feel like I would like some company now and again lol. Unfortunately when I do try and socialise it goes horribly wrong so I tend to avoid it. My personal paradox is that I am lonely for people to share a connection with but do not really enjoy socialising most of the time lol.

I also cannot express myself particularly well which builds up a lot of frustration on my part. I do not always know how or when to show my emotions and cannot always find the right words for them. This seems to cause other people to misunderstand me an awful lot! It also makes it difficult when going for therapy as I cannot fully explain what I am feeling in a way that they can understand it. I can feel it but not put it into words so tend to use the words that I think fit the most closely (even though it may not be an exact fit). This can stop treatments being effective as I always seem to end up with treatments that make me worse rather than better (they upset me and cause a meltdown). It also becomes apparent that the therapist is prone to misunderstanding me. It does not help that if my brain understands something it cannot comprehend how someone else cannot understand it. So then I get frustrated and feel angry with the therapist as a result.

Sometime even I don't know what im feeling though lol.

I'm not an aspie.

I'm introverted and apathetic about socialising mostly but do it to keep people happy.
I have many obsessions. The two top ones being Stargate and Doctor Who, with drawing coming third but I'm not as obsessed with it.

I'm not miserable that I'm autistic but I think things would have worked out differently if I wasn't. But I can't change that so I do the best I can.

I can express my feelings better through writing. I find people hear but don't listen anyway and I have some speech difficulties.

Not formally DX'd, but I am most likely on the spectrum. Proud might be the wrong term for me, but I have accepted having Aspergers since it perfectly describes me, nor am I afraid of the term. It beats being "ret*d" by a mile which was my label from peers when I was growing up. I much prefer being alone with my dog, kids &/or hubby to being out in a large crowd. I can socialize for a while, but I find it very draining both physically & mentally. (I find it far easier to socialize over the internet, as I can walk away at any time.) Also the sound of lots of people talking at once overwhelms me...it's too much for me to process all at once & it's almost painful to listen to. Photography (mostly landscapes) & books are my main obsessions, but I don't talk about them incessantly. I've learned that people just don't like that. But I am not good at small talk either, though I can fake it for sometimes for a short time. I am horrible at expressing myself verbally & often trip over my own thoughts & tongue in the process. I think a lot of people think I'm really stupid when I do try to converse unfortunately, or they think I'm lying. Either of which sucks because it happens to me a lot at work. (I have to deal with people both in person & over the phone all day long...also draining & uncomfortable!) Writing is my preferred medium, but typing NOT hand written, as it's deteriorated over the years into scribble that even I have a difficult time deciphering. It's also physically painful to write the old fashioned way.

I prefer to be alone most of the time, but I do sometimes feel like going someplace to socialize. But I don't mean a club or just hang out with strangers... I mean maybe I'll go see if 1 or 2 people I know, want to go eat, or go to a car show, or ??? No big crowds.



Neither disappointed nor proud. I'm fine with myself as I am, and I would probably also be fine with myself, had I been NT.



Not sure if you mean "special interests" or actual obsessions... I have 3 or 4 long-term special interests in the form of hobbies, but none that I'd qualify as obsessions, if an obsession is something that takes an unhealthy amount of time and thought, or which potentially could harm daily livelihood. I suppose it might be considered obsessive if I needed to have 300 television sets from the 1940s in my collection by the time I was 18, and I did.... However more bizarre than 60-year-old TVs, is my collection of Cold War air raid sirens. And I operate them too, which luckily hasn't scared too many people since I live on a farm.



I like to be understood, and I hate it when others can't see that I'm in disagreement or frustrated, etc. I have excellent verbal communication skills, but dreadful body language. Nobody has a clue if I'm bored and want to stop doing something... I have to say so, which seems rude sometimes.



Charles

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I am very introverted. I am fine with having AS (but I also wish it was diagnosed when I was a child!) I have lots of obsessions. I also find it awkward to express myself, though it depends on the situation.

Disclaimer: I'm not sure I'm actually an aspie just yet.

I'm mostly done trying and failing. I used to be social, but even my close friends haven't been too kind to my awkwardness in recent years. So I've gone mostly introvert recently, although I still try to be social sometimes.


Whatever is going on inside my head, I'm fine with it.


Somewhere in between. I'm not a stereotypical aspie with narrow obsessions that I rant on about to everyone who listens (at least not any more), but I loved and was quite the expert on dinosaurs, airplanes, and the arctic up until about 10. Now I try to learn everything about astronomy, physics, and computers.


I prefer keeping my feelings to myself, but sometimes I just need to let it all out, however awkwardly.

Sammich, your mom sounds just like mine.

I'm pretty introverted.

I wish I never had AS.

I have quite a few obsessions.

I feel awkward expressing myself.

1) I'm kind of both to be honest. I'm extremely introverted around certain kinds of people, but if I'm surrounded by people while I'm either working on something related to my special interests (which are both computers and all sorts of art, art mostly though) or they are very much involved with my special interest I am kind of extroverted in my own weird humour-only societal relation to the world around me.

2) I'm kind of proud that I have AS and ashamed of it at the same time. I'm proud of it because it lets me focus harder on the things that I care about, and lets me see things in a way that is vastly different than others. I am pretty impervious to peer societal trends as well. I am only really ashamed of it whenever I reach a mental road block- whether it's acting out excitement that doesn't involve my special interest very clumsily and insulting the people around me accidentally when I don't automatically jump for joy and shout as well as scream when I get a good birthday or any occasion present.

3) I'm interested in technology, history, and art mostly. I like statistics to a certain extent too. All of those besides art are pretty much just interests, though (art's an obsession, the second-place winner is art). Sometimes things really fade besides art, and that's how I can tell between my likes and my obsessions.

4) It depends on the people that I'm around, honestly.

1. I don't really let Asperger's define who I am (That's up to Jesus Christ, my Lord) but at the same time I'm not ashamed of it!
2. I have quite a few interests...
3. I sometimes express what I'm feeling very well, but sometimes it's difficult to find the right words!

1. I am loud and obnoxious (too talkative) so therefore extroverted............but I don't like to socialize very often or for extended periods of time and I don't like interacting with groups of people. I'm usually just loud and obnoxious at home with my mommy or asking my prof endless questions in my uni courses

2. I am proud now.........but I wasn't before

3. I have obsessions , usually only one at a time but I don't pursue them in the usual AS way (accumulating info ).....although my latest ones I have done this as my latest ones have been science related...........

4. I do show how I feel............but I do it awkwardly............and strangely...................

I am an introverted Aspie. I'm a proud Aspie. I have loads of technical obsessions and interests. It can be very awkward to express myself, especially when I'm under a lot of anxiety.

So I'm a shy technical Aspie.