How bad is your Aspergers?

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somewhere in the middle? i don't know i can't tell.

I voted on mild, My only big problem is communication,
Most of the time i dont know what to say to other people

I voted moderate but i am not sure really. (my aspie score on the quiz here was 156 or 157 I think) Some days are worse than others. Many things act as triggers that bring out my aspie traits. I usually hide out on those days and avoid public places. On other days I fake being NT pretty well. Lately I have just been too tired to act normal. Trying to act NT all day is soooo exausting.

gosh its not BAD at all!! "how BAD is ur aspergers?" get a grip! its neither moderate mild nor severe. its GOOD, and i like bein aspie. there. thats it. deal with it.

You may have a point, but I disagree on the "good" part. It isn't good nor bad. Maybe a better phrasing for the question would have been "How different are you from NTs?", since some aspies consider it good and others bad.

Overall, I would say that my AS is quite mild. I have obsessions but can keep them under control. I have got round my need for routine by banning most routine behaviours. I obviously have to go to work and I have a routine there but then I leave my routine behaviour at work. That is where I get my routine fix. I don't bring it home or when I go out. My motor coordination and otherwise is ok, I don't flap my arms or anything, I mainly twist my fingers if anything. I have learnt how to communicate with others more efficiently as I have got older as well. I don't think my Asperger's is bad though, I like having it, it makes me quirky. It's a part of who I am, if I didn't have it I wouldn't be me.

It's kinda funny... before I learned about my AS and got diagnosed, I didn't stim much at all, except for surreptitious muscle twitches, foot-tapping, and finger-tapping. Now I rock all-out, though it's very slight in public... it's like I "caught" it from people who did it themselves, found out how nice it is, and ended up liking it myself.

AS is supposed to get less pronounced as you get older, not more... I guess it's just psychosomatic. Anyway, rocking doesnt' hurt anybody, and it is quite calming, so...

I'm not a diagnosed aspie so I didn't vote, but if I was to answer this question, I'd have to say I'm very different in many ways, not different at all in many ways.

Some traits are just annoying sensitivities, like too much olfactory info and oversensitive hearing ..... some enhanced abilities, like seeing sounds and sound pictures of my environment in my mind ..... some challenges, like inappropriate responses to simple things and never knowing when to stop convincing someone of things ..... some devastating day killers, like waking up with no tactile sense, which is what ruined my weekend last week.

I had 46 years to find work arounds before I ever knew what any of this stuff meant, so I have many social skills that I've learned the hard way and of course, some I've learned wrong which I'm still working on fixing. Rest assured; this old Dawg learns new tricks with aplomb.

Whoa, was that a flame?

it was indeed. let the flame wars begin:D

I will be making more posts for you Berta to flame

It may not be politically correct for me, but I would say for me it's more bad than good. It seems some people lean more toward being anti-social and not having much interest in being sociable. My problem is I want very much to be sociable, and I feel like AS has made me so awkward as to be rejected even by the "nerds" in the past. And in my desire to be liked and loved, I have expended so much personal energy on learning how to be sociable. That's good and bad. It's bad in that I am sacrificing some individuality to conform, but it's good in that I didn't just retreat and give up.

I don't think of it in terms of good or bad.

Some of my symptoms are:

Socialization: Usually only with one other person, but not a larger group. I would say severe. Don't like people who are too quizzy about personal issues.

Eye Contact: Poor up till age 40 but I have improved since but I now have an issue with inappropriate eye contact.

Speech: flat, apraxic

Routine Demands: severe.

Obsessive thinking: severe

Coordination Issues: moderate to severe.

Posture V Poor up till age 15 but exercise has improved it.

Gait Very clumsy and tiring.

Comorbids: Epileptic episodes: Petit mals as a child, strong myclonic seisures, APD is severe, Speech apraxia, severe, Anxiety: mild Social Anxiety Disorder SAD. Tourettes.

Overall I would rate my "aspergers" as severe but my autism as moderate, but I was severely autistic before age 4 "no speech at all" Limited speech before age 7. Due to my early speech delay I am nearer to HFA than aspergers.


Paul

To each Aspie, his or her own.

I think the correct wording would have been "To what extent does everyone have AS?"

Tim