Just generally 'neurologically dodgy'?

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I was wondering if anything explains the following, or whether it's just a sort of general neurological dodginess. It can't be Asperger's because it's not severe enough.

Tourette syndrome (motor tics; vocal, throat and breathing tics, some compulsions; mental tics/compulsions; phantom tics)
CAPD traits including but not limited to excessively loud talking and problems knowing how loud something (the severity of the latter fluctuates over time)
Flat emotions/'gap' in positive emotions like: negative=====================content/flat/nothing----------------------=============positive (where ----------- is a sort of 'knowledge' of being happy, but not a true feeling of being happy)
Social difficulties
- not sure of others' body language
- not sure of others' tones of voice
- not sure of others' intentions
- find relationships difficult (few friends)
- often giving wrong tone of voice or emphasising wrong words (possibly CAPD)
- not smiling much when I think I am (I found this out through others' reactions/misunderstanding, mirrors and filming)
Minor tactile issues
Obsessions about certain subjects (but not hugely so and I don't always have an obsession)
Irritability (used to have rages)
Distractibility
Absent mindedness manifesting itself as short term memory problems. Well, I do very well on memory tests, but sometimes, for example, I click on a forum thread and forget what it was before it's loaded
Brain fog
Organisational problems
Possible Harry Benjamin syndrome
Mild synesthesia (associated type)

Any thoughts/ideas? Feel free to ask questions - I may have missed things out.

Thanks in advance

I've read somewhere that a lot of different systems in the brain are very closely connected and that a change in one can have effects on others. People with certain conditions are more likely than the average person to have a whole range of related conditions.

It is an incredibly complex area and I don't know if anyone even a professor of neurology really understands how all the systems interact. It may be that we lack the intelligence to understand how our own minds work. And by we I mean the human race. I don't think dogs or chimps understand their own minds either.

A lot of the symptoms you describe are listed by authorities as symptoms of AS and autism related conditions. Certainly the social impairments.

There are very few people qualified to talk about these things, I am certainly not. If you are really worried then, a neurologist should be able to offer more guidance than fellow aspies. Are there any aspie neurologists active in this forum?

I'm a neurology enthusiast. I find the brain fascinating because there is so much that is still unknown or not fully understood about it, and yet research is progressing at an increasingly rapid pace, meaning that new insights into the way our brains work are discovered practically every day.

My reading indicates that there are essentially still more questions than answers, and new questions are constantly being proposed. So there is a lot of creativity going into the field of brain research.

I am not a professional neurologist, so I cannot offer an opinion on the specifics of the OP.

However, I have often wondered if there might be a correlation between higher than average intelligence and other neurological abnormalities.

The vast majority of which I feel (except for synthesia and brain fog and short-term memory)

What a crazy life.

If it's too mild to be AS, but otherwise AS would fit...

PDD-NOS?

Mild/incomplete AS can come under the PDD-NOS label (besides other things).

If you're 'significantly impaired' in anything that's not explained by another disorder.

Well... yes... PDD-NOS is the 'you have some dodgy neurology that cannot be explained better by any other specific disorder, but you're not normal enough to function without any strange problems'.

I'd be PDD-NOS if somebody would ever apply the DSM or ICD literally. I'm somewhere in the gap between AS-HFA I guess.

But as I said, PDD-NOS is also for those with fewer traits than AS. It's all that is 'unspecified'.