Aspergers and Acting.

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It is believed that most people with aspergers are good actors naturally , well in my case i believe that very much. I have acted my way to get in the army. and in case you didnt know in australia getting in as a rifleman is very very hard. but i acted the whole thing in the interviews i was confident and knowledgable.

When i had the last interview/test it was with a psychologist he bought into everything i said in which most of it wasnt true, i told him i was a very confident extrovert type person. (in between these interviews i was in the toilets shaking and sweating from anxiety)

ive acted my way out of train fines and police fines, in fact someone who gave me a fine decided that i dont deserve it and drove me home after hes shift!

I have had intense dreams of being a famous actor in which i always used to ignore them, however at this time i have decided to start acting in a local drama group.it will be hard at first due to anxiety , but i just find acting as someone else increases my confidence by 100%. i really cannot explain my intense desire to start acting.

Has anyone else felt this way? or have any similar stories?

I thought people with asperger's are really bad at acting.

I would have thought we weren't good actors, because acting requires trying to behave like someone else and conveying emotion you're not even feeling.

There are those who are good at it, although I would imagine they're in the minority. Like everything, it depends on the individual.

http://life-with-aspergers.blogspot.com ... cting.html

I took acting classes to learn how to react to social cues and 'ad lib' a conversation. It worked ... to a point.

Instead of being a geeky, nervous, and jerky freak, I'm now merely an eccentric middle-aged man.

Pobody's nerfect.

Seems like acting with a script might be easier than real life. Don't have to guess what people are thinking and feeling.

I was very interested in acting when I was younger. I've read that it's a good idea for ASpies to at least try one acting class, to learn how their voice sounds, and how to express emotions.

It helps when conducting an interview to act like Perry Mason (as played by Raymond Burr).

It helps when giving a lecture to act like Mr. Spock (As played by Leonard Nimoy).

It helps when talking to my kids to act like Steven Douglas (Fred MacMurray in 'My Three Sons').

For every situation, there is a role to play.

I'm actually quite decent at acting.

Do I enjoy it? Nope.

... okay, maybe a little bit. But not when a whole lot of people are watching.

When I was a college freshman, I pulled something like the OP, but in a writing class. It was my first college course, so I figured if I was ever going to make a conscious effort to change how I interacted with people, that would be a good time to start. I did my very best impression of extroversion and social normalness every time I interacted with anyone from that class. I was friendly, I hung out after class, attended study groups, everything. One of the assignments in the class was to keep a journal that only the professor and I would read. I kept field notes on how my interactions with my classmates went, and confessed to the teacher that I was faking pretty much everything with them. The professor thought it was really funny and I got an excellent grade on the assignment.