AS is my new special interest. Is it yours?

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Since finding this website and finding out about AS, i KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that i have AS. I will get a diagnosis as soon as i get my health insurance going, so its a matter of time.

I am on the forums all the time, and chattering to my fiancé about another faucet of AS that describes me completely. Every quirk is AS. Every single bit of me. From my bad handwriting, to not recognizing someone right away, to my hate of the texture of wood, the way i run, the clothes i wear(how often i wear them), the ability to only socialize in small doses, my tomboy qualities, my hatred of talking on the phone, my aversion to eye contact, loud sudden noises make me panic, my asexuality, my naive way of thinking, my logical & literal way of thinking, my monotone speech, my intense interests.......................... everything that I am made up of ...EVERYTHING....

and now my fiancé is bored of it.. and he is saying ITS ALL IN YOUR HEAD....
i was like.. well.. it could be in my head but It hasn't been proven what the cause is..
but he means that I am making it up....

i cant wait to get a diagnosis... i'll feel like a phony until i do.

Last edited by zweisamkeit on 14 Dec 2010, 1:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.

lol and here I am again replying to another of your thread

And yes it sure is, ever since I found out my stepson may have it (I am totally convinced that he does), and then as I started realising that I too had so many of the characteristics (funny how we can see some things in others but not realise the same things about ourselves lol), I have been reading and learning about it a lot. But I haven't told my husband yet, it is my secret for the moment, until I find the courage to bring it up.

Shadi

the thing that kind of helped out our conversation last night is i said
"Discovering that I have AS doesn't make me change, it just explains the way I am...The way I have been since I was born."

very true

I was actually thinking of using the list posted in another thread, and ask him if any of the characteristics reminds him of someone, it will HAVE to remind him of me lol (this list http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OJWZsdZiQSI/T ... 83e339.JPG)

Well, actually, it IS in your head - your brain, not your mind.

Yeah. This has become a special interest, at least for a while. I suspect I will move on to something else at some point.

I showed my mom that list and she said OH MY GOD, IT'S YOU....

My sister on that very day was talking about my cousin having AS, and jokingly said "It reminds me of you, too."

Yeah, I will move on, as soon as I know as much about the syndrome as a specialist.

Its great that she saw it right away

p.s. I think I also have a cousin who may have AS, I have no idea if he knows and I am not 100% certain if he does, but he's always been my favorite cousin and now I realise it may be because we have quite a lot in common, I never really thought of that before, we've just always been drawn to each other while the other cousins (I have about 20 of them) were hanging out together.

yeah it's probably a special interest right now , it's the only thing i read about....and i go to bed at 4 o clock.
Hi again .....lol!

hello again

I stayed up til 3 am reading... and now i'm sooo tired at work.

I'm interested in understanding schizophrenia. Some of my family members are suspected of having it, and I have a curiosity about the possibility that maybe some of them who are suspected don't really have it. I have an interest in recognizing it in others, and it scares me a little. I don't think I have it, though.

Well i'm glad you found this place,
welcome to Wrongplanet

I was diagnosed when i was about 9-10. The doctor recognized it right away. According to my parents, he was like, "if this kid doesn't have it then no one does."

Currently my aspie interests are:

-AS
-sciences, particularly chemistry, biotechnology, etc. at the moment
-people/how the mind works
-economics
-traveling
-world politics to some extent lately
-books, though it's not exactly uncommon for aspies to like to read, so i'm not sure if that counts.
-learning an instrument, perhaps guitar. idk why. i don't even have the money to go around spending on lessons, and prolly won't anytime soon, but the idea for whatever reason seems appealing to me
-other stuff

AS has been a long time special interest for me.

yep, ever since i read an article on ASD at the start of the year. now iv begun branching out into related topics. Everything about it I find fascinating and WP is soooo addictive!