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Hello,
I'd really like to gauge some honest reactions and opinions here. I've always felt like I could relate to many of the things Aspie's go through; however, in the past few weeks I feel as if I could have some possible Aspie qualities and tendencies.

For example I don't like really loud environments. Also I hate large groups and deal best with one individual at a time. I have always had trouble with making friends. People in the past have said don't try so hard etc.

I'm an outgoing person but often I feel like I make the same mistakes in social settings.

I'd be interested in any opinions as to if you think I have some Aspie qualities or maybe shadow AS qualities.

I've discussed this with a few people separately in the past week or so. I'd really love to know what your opinions are.
thanks,
mellow

Not enough information.

What happens when you try to make friends?

What were your middle and high school experiences?

What are your interests? Any unusual interests? Anything that you know everything about that just bores other folks silly?

Don't worry. We won't think any the less of you.

I voted shadow AS. You have probably aquired too many life skills to effectively determine if you are PDD or not, but you do have noteworthy AS traits. Social skills sometimes come across as a preservation that you have analyzed social behaviors and documented details about people in your mind, and you also pay alot of attention to technical details about inanimate objects. On the other hand, you seem to have a unusually good grasp of abstract thinking by ASD standards and I don't recall you ever mention preservating.

There is an Aspie test you can take.

If shadow is when you aquire these traits through the way you were raised and the people who raised you and have been around, then you're being too vague. I'm not really sure what Shadow AS is.

I call you a winged elf.

Well, as far as making friends goes, I put a lot of effort into it but most of the time nothing comes of it. (For example lots of people tell me I try to hard.) I'm extremely quiet in a group setting but I'm not shy. I believe that's just other's perception of it.

In Middle School and High School more of the same. I didn't have many friends in high school and was miserable all throughout. People made fun of me. Someone once told me that when I got to college it would all change but still, it was basically a caste system. And little things that a lot of N.T.s would think little of, I thought they were the whole world. In other words I tried to make friends but I never meant to them what they meant to me. One friend said I like you, but I don't have any time for you. That was crushing. I don't think I picked up on the social clues as I should have.

As for interests, I tend to be focused on certain celebs and tend to know everything they're up to. I'm the same way about subjects like Electronics. I can tell you everything thing there is to know about HDTV's. Maybe that makes me a geek too, but I don't care. I enjoy knowing how things work. Also I tend to do things in streaks. Once I get interested in something say a movie or such, I'll watch it several times just to hear certain dialogue etc.

Anyway, that's a little bit more.
Thanks for reading.
Mellow