I'm rubbish at maths.
I've learned to pick up facial queues and body language.
I can (with considerable effort) shut up about my special interests in social situations.
I'm great with metaphor, poetry, literary fiction.
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# Impaired social interaction~ HAVE, but I've worked on it, no longer awful.
# Clumsiness~ HAVE, a lot of work went into it, but I learned martial arts, to ride a bike, to touch type and play several instruments. But I can't drive a car and I walk into walls.
# Uncoordinated motor movements~ HAVE, see above.
# Limited interests~ DON'T HAVE I have wide interests, but very deep and obsessive.
# Unusual preoccupations~ HAVE (some of this may be schizoaffective bipolar related.)
# Repetitive routines or rituals~ HAVE
# Speech and language peculiarities~ HAVE, my speech is overly formal, intellectual, and old fashioned. I speak in sentences and paragraphs, and cringe when others are ungrammatical.
# Non-verbal communication problems~ In large groups I lose my ability to judge body language, facial expression, tone of voice, and can't turn any distractions "down." I become obviously "weird", and this has caused a lot of social difficulty.
# Word repetition~ DON'T HAVE
# Few facial expressions - apart from anger or misery~ My mother trained me in that from a young age, and now I'm pretty good at it.
# Excellent rote memory~ Depends. Linguistics, poetry, literature, music... fine. Anything else, rubbish.
# Musical ability~ HAVE (perfect pitch, several instruments, excellent singing voice, perfect recall of music heard.)
# Intense focus on one or two subjects~ HAVE At a time... but they change every six months to a year or so, with the result I seem to know a lot about a wide range of subjects. But when I'm obsessed with something I'm completely obsessed, and I never completely lose my fascination for a subject, once I've had it.
# Being "in their own world"~ Definitely HAVE this one. (Gets very bad when I'm psychotic.)
# Preoccupied with their own agenda~ What agenda?
# Lack of empathy~ DON'T HAVE... in fact, I have too much empathy.
# Deviant verbal communication~ Sometimes when I'm stressed I forget what language I'm in, and even occasionally jumble up several together, so it sounds like gibberish.
# Deviant nonverbal communication~ HAVE NOT, I've worked on it, thought apparently sometimes I look "aloof" and "Spock like."
# Idiosyncratic attachment to inanimate objects~ HAVE Yes, I love my guitar. She has a name.
# Eccentric personality~ HAVE So I'm told.
# Socially unadapted personality~ Not sure what this means. Probably.
# Particular aptitude e.g. arithmetic~ Music, linguistics, literature.
# Flat, cheerless demeanor~ NO.
# Single-mindedness~ HAVE
# Social withdrawal~ HAVE when I'm overwhelmed.
# Lack of interest in other people~ DON'T HAVE
# Poor coordination~HAVE though in some areas (music, martial arts) I'm fine.
03 Dec 2010, 10:56 pm
