Asperger Syndrome: Now available in 6 flavours!

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I picked fantasy since it seems like I pay more attention to my mental world then my physical one.

I was a Fantasy when I was a kid. Now, as an adult, I am Logic.

god dammit i Am Cabbage, let alone, my parents call me a vegitating cabbage as i spend 24/7 lacking sleep on Oblivion. i was tempted to think of fantasy, but that doesn't come under the psycopathic type who wishes to grow up to be like leatherface in TCM, lol.

These "types" are all just costumes. Costumes aspies put on to deal with the NT world. Yes, we are all of these in some way or another, but there is someone human under these costumes. I don't like it when clinicians describe us solely on these behaviors that are responses to the NT world. "Angry boy", "ADHD boy"...it's like they only want to focus on the costume and not the person underneath the costume. They want to modify, alter the constume so it's more compatible with the NT world, but not address the person underneath the costume. The costume is not our soul and therefore shouldn't be the focus, the tell-all, the crystal ball of an aspie's past, present and future. There's a reason why we have these constumes, but that reason is neurological and still largely out of the reach of current neuroscience understanding. So what is instead grasped by clinicians (while neuroscientists are still in the dark) are the behaviors, the costumes we employ. The brain is still largely uncharted land and these behaviors (logic boy, rule boy, emotion-type boy) are pre-fabricated landmarks that explain nothing about how these landmarks came to be in the first place. Clinicians find the landmark, manipulate the landmark, and then settle.

Might as well label this rant as-- Logic/Anxiety/Angry/Negative.

I voted Fantasy, although I have Paranoid and Anxiety tendencies.

logic and rule overcontrolled ..... i have got to send this to my mother..... we have a family joke where when i was little i would ask "why?" and her reply "cause i said so!" would merit the response "that's not a reason!"

Definitely logic - arbitrary rules used to push me into total meltdown and they still upset me. I always need a rational reason to do things and I always pick poorly reasoned arguments apart and point out all the inconsistancies and fallacies. I'm training to be an engineer, so this is probably a good thing.

But I also have strong elements of fantasy. I definitely immerse myself in fantasy as an alternative to reality. I have a bookcase full of dvds and another bookcase full of science fiction and fantasy books and I have extremely vivid daydreams involving the scenarios within them.

Still, the fantasy is under control; I have real friends, a job, hobbies outside science fiction (and, for that matter, real science) and goals for real life. The logic, I can't turn off. Logic definitely trumps fantasy - I can never stop picking at the internal logic of the fantasy worlds in my dvds and books. If the internal logic is inconsistant or the science is wrong or they ignore obvious defects and solutions it throws me out of the fantasy.

I also have some negative and some anxiety - even as a 9 year old I was cynical and sarcastic - and as a child I also had anger.

Me too.

The "logic boy" describes me exactly as a child (except that I am female!! !), but also I used to (& still do) live in my own fantasy world.

I've got to add "angry" as well though, as I hate being thwarted in any way.

Well I seemed to have bits of a few and nothing fitted perfectly, so I am a Cabbage.

I consider myself very logical, I have almost no emotions at all, and I do not show when I do. This annoys people to extremes, because they always fail to get a reaction from me. I am slightly paranoid, especially about my parents spying on me, but I have learned that usually, I had good reason to be paranoid.

Logic and fantasy/ADHD are my primary ways.

Negative was the only one that even came close to describing me, but it's also the one that is the least defined, so yeah.