How consistent is your AS?

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I have bad months and good weeks. Some weeks it's really mixed up. I don't really know what limitations to put on myself. The other day when I got through with my therapy session I went for a 6 mile walk. Normally I can barely walk into the kitchen and I don't really know what to think of this. In the past I would get excited about how much better I felt and get a job only to have the symptoms come back and render me useless again. So how consistent is your AS and or abilities?. It was the best day I've had in maybe 6 ms., still had some sensory issues and overall anxiety but less physical and mute spells than usual.

i'd say my symptoms [with the brief window of relative "new" normalcy provided by strattera the exception] have been uniform over the decades, and in terms of personal efficacy are on a slight ascent over the past few years. IOW i am slightly more addled now than i was a few years ago. i try not to think about where that may lead me...

I'd say my AS is quite consistent and stays similar most of the time. It gets worse when I'm feeling extremely tired or overwhelmed, but apart from that it doesn't change much.

It is very much an unchanging mode of thought patterns and behaviors, except when I am depressed. Then this takes over and I lose motivation, even for my special interests.

Consistent but the Earth shattering events might happen every couple of months, during when I think I'm doing all right. Actually given my PMDD Earth shattering events occur maybe 1-2 weeks monthly.

Quite consistent.

it is usually consistent , but this is only by a majority of 60-70%. Some days my cognitive issues are like a brick wall, others i forget they are there. and in that slight majority is what i would call myself, i am different, but it is all i have known, at a level i can deal with and know my limitations and more or less compensate for them

i hate atomoxetine! it actually was the best thing ever for my executive functioning, but in other ways i felt more autistic, but i was able to put my mind to things and follow through with executing my intentions. But the reason i hate it is because before i quit taking it, the reason i quit it, it started giving me panic attacks. mine are characterized by the feeling i cannot breath, and that my heart is beating fast/odd, and will soon arrest. And i still have panic attacks being off of strattera nearly a year now. Panic disorder is in my family, my sister has had them all her life, but i never did before strattera

gee, come to think of it, i did have the occasional bout of fast heartbeat/breathlessness, but for some reason it did not paralyze me, i was able to calm myself down. but now i know that it may well have been a side fx of this drug and not just something weird happenin' in my noggin. learn something new every day, just about. one never knows which ointment will have the fly in it.

Fairly consistent, but I've learned to hide it for the most part.

People still realise I'm different (peoples first impression of me is often "Jesus Christ you're weird!") but not in a negative way

Strange that a non-stimulant gives you panic attacks.

Ritalin increases social anxiety though so I have to be careful when on it.
It decreases sensory issues though but just gives me an added bit of anxiety but I can handle it.

Straterra 'boosts' norepinephrine (a.k.a. noradrenaline), and that can increase anxiety. Also, the heart and blood vessels have lots of NE receptors so it affects them, too.

Stimulants actually also 'boost' norepi, though that effect is often not talked about much (the focus is always on dopamine). The energizing/anxiety-producing effects actually come from the norepi -- drugs that increase only dopamine are actually sedating. I was once on some meds that do that and I couldn't stay awake.

I have ups and downs, kind of like a Wheel of Fortune, except it's more a Wheel of Mood/Functioning. Whenever I feel confident about my abilities and think "Wow, I'm on top of the world! Nothing could get me down!", then sooner or later something sets in, or something happens that shakes my self-confidence, or that reminds me of how awkward I still am, and I get myself down again. The past half year or so, I've pretty consistently gone through 4-week-cycles with 2 weeks of feeling good and capable and confident, and 2 weeks of feeling down and not worth a whit.

It's worse when I'm tired or depressed.

I'm a lot like you and this is one reason I never self DXed.

From what I gather, they are also making part of the new DX criteria that they traits need to affect the person's functioning a "significant" portion of the time.

So I'm not sure what significant is, but I'm really inconsistent, I might be very social and sometimes even very NT for a few months ( have no trouble understanding what's being said to me, easily put myself in other's shoes, no issues with TOM).

Other times, without warning, I could have some serious spectrum traits for 6 months to 1 year. It really has nothing to do with depression, I do think my lapsing into spectrum habits could be stress induced, though. I do burnout from a lot of socialization so that tells you right here that I'm not really wired for it.

Still though, sometimes I'm like two totally different people.

Same here

i was like that when i was younger, up until my 40s, then when i was no longer forced to report to work in an less-than-civil hellhole, my cycling stopped and stablized in a sort of low ok-ness. it gets better, eventually. one learns workarounds for what hobbled one as a younger person.