The four manifestations of AS/HFA

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I can't really place myself in any one of those archetypes entirely. I seem to have a bit of all of them somewhere within me.

My son, diagnosed with Asperger's, is definately Active but Odd.

My parents say I was like my son when I was little, although I would say from my later childhood to now, I fit the Passive description. My ex husband fits the Stilted description best, especially the difference between home and work.

I'm a mix of Active-But-Odd and Stilted.

Definitely Passive/Active But Odd going on here. Always in the 99th percentile of all my standardized tests but barely able to earn a living, even though I'm considered reliable and a great worker. Unless somebody holds my hand and leads--even sometimes drags--me through the education/job-seeking process, I'll just sit around all day. That's why it took me 10 years to get a bachelor's degree and even though I loved school, I quit going after that. Nobody encouraged me to do any graduate studies and I didn't know what the next step was, so I just stood there.

People mistake my passivity for easygoingness (that looks weird--is that a real word?). That's how I keep ending up married. But then uncooperativeness with uninteresting things happens and I don't do my share of whatever is expected of me, so I'm probably going to keep ending up divorced.

Active-but-odd/silted.

I have very long speech and problems when being spontaneous is required (I wish I did good at jobs tho!) Very hard to take interest in things that are not relatable to my special interests in any way. Horrible with math. I am a very very visual learner. Very naïve socially. People can take advantage of me with ease, especially if it is in a new situation. (This is why I consult a great deal of people before making important choices). Almost had a Dx in childhood but mother refused. Had a PDD-NOS Dx later on in early twenties, moved states and new doctor from free clinic refused to acknowledge dx, therefore , other institutions of the state will not acknowledge it, either. Single-minded focus on special interests of the moment. They evolve and change but revolve around the same central theme.

. . . You know what I am definitely smart enough to know I have ASD. I wish people would understand that I am that smart! =D But I look like an idiot half the time =/

I suspect that my autism is of the aloof-type.

My ASD therapist would most likely peg me as "passive" and I thought that would be it for the longest time. But my past passiveness was always the result of trying hard and is not the natural state-of-being I revert to when I'm exhausted. I worked on getting rid of it, but it's not that long ago still that I still went into passive-observation-mode as a method to spend (more like, physically and emotionally survive) social time wasting as little energy on bothersome, annoying company as possible.

That is why I suspect that aloofness is the right one out of the two because that's the default mode that just "happens" to me. That's to say if aloofness refers to the autism and not to my... personality. You know, the part that thinks about my thoughts and about me and decides on what I do and how I react before running it through a reality check of what's actually possible for me.

I seem to fit the Stilted category the most.

I'm not diagnosed yet (see signature), but I've always fit the 'passive' description, although since the age of about 13, I've been 'active-but-odd'.

Passive here but I am trying to be less.

I found this list somewhere a while ago. It's the same list but with some different symptoms.

active-odd

--though i am passive in one regard: if my total situation is not intolerable, i tend to be reluctant to change it. i stick with dead-end jobs for years, just because i don't have an incentive to change. it's probably a bad trait, but from my point of view i have more important things to think about...

Aloff as a child but now a mixture of Passive and Active but Odd as an adult.

It seems like most people are a mix of the different types...............

I can only assume out of all of the groups, I fit most in the ed group.