what kind of aspie u are?

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I'm definitely the fantasy type. I spend probably well over half my waking hours in the world I created, playing with my imaginary friends.

I think I'm the Negative Boy

I think I'm a fantasy/rules aspie. I am into sci-fi, fantasy, video games, RPGs, anime, and music. I remember my 4th grade teacher complaining on multiple occasions to my parents when I was a kid, "She's really smart, but she's always off in her own little world." At that point my parents figured, "Maybe she's gifted and she's not being challenged enough!" They were mistaken. I really was just a bright little girl who was always off in her own little world. The teacher called it. Unfortunately, in the early 80's, nobody had a clue about AS.

I make procedures in my head for pretty much everything. Each task I normally perform at work has its own procedure. Tasks I perform at home have their own procedures. The route I take when I go for a walk has its own procedure. If I don't have a procedure in my head for something I need to do, then I get confused, and I start having to take long pauses to think things over and make a new procedure.

I especially have difficulties when I'm trying to drive to a place where I've never gone before. It can be a place I've driven past every day on the way to someplace else, but I won't know how to get there, because I never made a procedure in my head for, "How to Drive from Point A to Point B," for those specific values of A and B. Sometimes if there is a landmark (to me, this means another place I already have a procedure for) near my destination, then I'll be able to create a new procedure on the fly by cloning the procedure for that landmark and modifying it a little. If there isn't a landmark, I'll have to extensively plan the trip and bring a printed map with me the first few times I go there, and allow lots of extra time in case I get lost. It's especially bad when I have passengers who want to me to change destinations or add additional stops to our itinerary while I'm in the middle of following a driving procedure. Getting me really confused when I'm behind the wheel is a nice recipe for disaster.

Logic/Fantasy for sure.

Fantasy/ADD/Emotional/Anxiety.....not necc. in that order....fun fun!!
I say fantasy since my whole life revolves around art/music.....i am not so much into Sci-fi or "Fantasy"...as a kid I was in my own little world and was constantly making up stories...

Even though this refers to one gender, not taking in to account that there are FEMALE aspies out there, I am a fantasy aspie. I live in my own head all the time.

I'm a logic girl / emotion (OCD) girl.
It sure makes for an awful lot of rules

All of the above, to differing extents, depending on my mood and mindset.

As a child, OCD/Logic and sometimes Angry boy. As a younger teenager (12-16ish) Negative/Logic Boy. Now? OCD/Logic/Fantasy Boy. The only issue people point out I really have in my life is my need for LOGIC LOGIC LOGIC. THINGS HAVE TO MAKE SENSE ARGHHHHH. Seriously, if a rule isn't spelt out for me, I don't know about it. I STILL need a reason for every little limitation/rule placed on me if I can't make sense of it myself. LOGIC BOY defines my entire life.

Totally logic boy!

I'm probably closest to the "Negative GIRL" and "Anxiety GIRL".

As a child I was somewhere between paranoid and anxious girl. The paranoid stopped making sense when it talked about wanting to be violent. I never had those urges and never wished harm upon others, but I did see the world as adversarial and felt I constantly needed to maintain a good offensive to fend off attacks. I can't say this is entirely abnormal, since I was often a target and lacked the social skills to discern whether kindness was actual or just a ploy to get my guard down. The anxious part comes in because I could not tolerate even mild or simple changes in routine. I recall having a meltdown once because the shape and texture of an apple bran muffin I used to eat every day was changed by the manufacturer. It took me weeks to get over that (not the meltdown, just making the adjustment). I still have major struggles with routine changes.

Logic / Fantasy / ADHD for me - an odd combo I suppose

My son would likely be a cross of fantasy and emotion

probably a mix of ADHD and fantasy.

I don't know, there's something odd about that site... it seems like it just pic-and-mixes a lot of disorders, adds a vague description and then recommends 'medication'...

adhd & fantasy with a smidgen of angry boy