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I remember when I first came on this forum I didn't understand that much about those with more severe cases of autism, even though I was diagnosed with Asperger's at a young age. So I assumed that everybody on WP were as high-functioning as me just because they can type posts rather well on an internet forum. I learnt the hard way that I was wrong, and I'm glad I did. Now I know that any member on this forum could be anywhere on the autism spectrum, or even not at all.

I was once told here by a member (who I don't think is around any more) that all autistics have a social mind of a newborn baby. That is not true at all, maybe for some (doesn't mean ret*d though), but not for all. When I was 2 I had the social mind of a typically developing 2-year-old. My social development slowed down a bit at the age of 4, but I was only about 2-3 years behind my peers socially growing up, but even then not in every way. It was more behaviour-wise I was socially behind, not so much social instincts.

Thanks for taking the time to reply everyone.
About my diagnoseis, yes I have a very weak version of Asperger's, which you could call "light autism", but in everyday real life conversation, it's difficult to tell that about me and few people actually find out.
On the Internet it's nearly impossible to tell I have Asperger's, since messages I write are usually coming across as normal and legitimate.
Sometimes I can be weird, and say or do something unusual. But that's pretty rare, it doesn't happen every other second.
I agree with one thing, which was stated here by one of you who had replied. Which is, autism is indeed not causing poor social skills, but a less acceptable way of performing your social skills, kinda.
An autistic person can speak to other people normally, but he could do it in a way that wouldn't appear like everyone else does.
But maybe there is quite a large part of the community here, who believe they have a kind of autism but in reality just have a weaker ability to deal with social situations, etc.
I guess I have concluded things up more or less, about this.

So the op thinks none of us can be intelligent or express ourselves well through our writing, or typing in this case? Writing is usually a lot easier than just talking because you can actually think about what you're to say. We don't have to worry about eye contact or facial expressions either.

I'm aspie and female, so I'm lucky I was even diagnosed with Aspergers at all. People knew before then I was different and unusual but no one, including psychiatrists, could figure out why.

There is just so much more to it than posts on a forum. And social skills (and difficulties) are just one aspect of it.

Relax. School is out and lots of bored kids.

Schools out for......Summer!

Alice Cooper

I don't understand where your hostility is coming from. I'm too old to be at school and I am certainly not bored or an idiot, who tries to make stupid posts. You could have expressed your disagreement more nicely, but whatever, we're done here I guess. Take care of yourselves. By the way, I reported your post, hopefully it will be looked at.

Your initial question was a perfectly fair one, but you shouldn't be surprised or offended by the fact that it elicited some robustly expressed replies, especially on a forum such as this. Maybe you should stay around a little longer at least, in order to form a more balanced opinion of this place?

Autism is imo rather about the absence of natural social abilities that go far deeper than most NTs seem to be able to comprehend instead of a magic inability with people.