Aspies For Freedom

I suppose it could, if nobody minded them being labeled as such when the person in question is undisagnosed & could turn out to be NT...I don't know, would YOU sum them up as aspie traits?  Maybe in my case, in the context of the relative ease I have negotiating the world (no sensory problems, high social functioning), they are something else.  But I do like the way you get to the point...Just curious, how common is it for confirmed aspies to be THIS chatty?  'Cause I do go on & on! :lol:

I think just about ALL of my intelligence is verbal.  Which means that I sound smarter than I am... :lol:

Hello to Can't_Think_Of_A_Username & Cindy!  Thank you for answering my post...Yes, it is strange to be in this in-between place, to keep reading descriptions of Asperger's and finding trait after trait that I don't have, and wondering why, if my sensory integration and my reading of social cues are (mostly) normal, why do I have these other things going on, the seemingly missing or inadequate (by mainstream standards) emotional responses, the need for solitude, the absolute indifference to touch and resulting lack of interest in finding a boyfriend?  Well, the label doesn't matter to me anymore; I just would love to know why my brain works the way it does.  I'm grateful for everything it does and I accept its disinclination to do the rest.  Keep posting!  P.S.---Cindy, what are these neighbors DOING when they gather on the sidewalk?!  And how can you possibly resist joining such festive gatherings? :lol:

Cindy, I must say I follow the pop culture myself, but I also like to talk about diseases &  genetic conditions & such.  I love the health & science channels!  

(Sitting at the computer, rocking slightly as I type...)  :smile:

Yea, I consider myself normal or if anything boarderline. I think I have more ADHD symptoms than asperger's... definatley. I was very asperger like when I was little like around third grade till 6th grade, but in third grade I was visciously harassed. But ever since 6th grade i've been normal acting but my parents dont get it. The only trait that I have is sensory sensitivity. Especially my sense of smell. Also the other ones like texture of food (i cannot eat tomatoes), I have to wear a bra when I sleep because I dont like the feel of clothes rubbing my breasts, I have an extremly high tolerence for pain, I always squint and keep one eye closed in sunlight, I dont hear very well though. But even with all that sensitivity that doesnt mean Im autistic! Like my mom calls me autistic because I cry alot. Thats so unfare! The red wings who are full grown mean cry when they get eliminated in the 1st round cry on national televison, they're still normal. manny legace is allowed to cry when he gets a goal scored on him and he's still considered normal. But Oh! When I cry when my parents tell everybody that im autistic, im not allowed to cry. Is that fare? If you've haven't noticed I definatley consider myself normal, how do I cnovince my parents that?

I was diagnosed with Aspergers when I was 12. Sometimes I act like I have it sometimes I don't depending on the situation I'm in. I act like an NT when everything is going the way I like it and when everyone is easy. I can carry on conversations, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I catch on people's feelings because I sense it in my heart, sometimes I do eye contact (starting to more often these days to people I know), I can read between the lines with my mother but can’t with anyone else very well, I can tolerate going to noisy places like malls or amusement parks, dances, restaurants, I like going to birthday parties but hadn’t since I was 11. I have an imagination and I played with my dolls and Polly Pockets when I was a kid, I even played house. Doesn’t anyone agree we have some NT in us? I know I have some NT in me. I believe no one is 100 percent aspie.


I fit between autism and aspergers. I had a speech delay due to my hearing loss but my mother said it might have happened anyway without it, I had cognitive problems, and I believe I had problems with adaptive behavior and self help skills and I don’t think I started talking in sentences until I was five but I used single words when I was 2, 3, and 4. Mom said I started talking when I was four but I watched family movies at my parents house this past spring and I did not see myself talking until after my fifth birthday but it was hard to understand me because I said words wrong. I didn’t start talking correctly until I was six. I was also echolaliaic in my early childhood and my play skills were below the age level when I was a baby. I have read in my medical record written by my psychiatrist when I was 12 about me being between autism and aspergers. I think he meant I met the criteria and the autism criteria thanks to my speech delay so I didn’t meet the part in the asperger criteria. Most of the times I have five from the criteria according to my mother and sometimes I have more up to eight when I stressed out. I don’t stim as much as I used to. Simply because I live on my own now, I’m more calm because I have control of everything around me and nothing can be touched or moved and it’s my own mess I clean up and I don’t have to worry about coming home to a different planet.
But one thing I’m confused about is when I was at the doctor’s for a papsmear (spelling) the doctor had his binder open and I saw a printed out page on me and it said in the beginning, ‘Elizabeth has been diagnosed as having aspergers even though she doesn’t quite meet the criteria.’

I have felt like a nobody because I don’t truly have aspergers and I’m not an NT, what am I. I’m nobody I don’t stand anywhere. Then all of a sudden mom tells me this summer I did meet five of the criteria and sometimes more than that up to eight and you need seven for the diagnoses so that means I truly have it?

I don’t consider myself an NT because I’m on the autism spectrum. I consider myself an aspie. Sometimes I think my diagnoses should have been Pervasive Development disorder. Perhaps the doctor didn’t know that condition. There is no criteria for it after all. It just says to look in the autism or aspergers one.

If there's an autism "spectrum", and if, within Asperger's, there is a further "spectrum" of "severity" (bleagh on "severity"), it is only reasonable to extend this "spectrum" idea throughout the population.

There is no such thing as a normal person.  No individual is typical.  "Normal" is merely a mean approximation.  The idea that there is this magical line, on the one side of which are they with Asperger's and on the other side of which are they without is simply dimwitted.  The line is arbitrary.  We're not talking about something like Tay-Sachs or sickle cell, which only have three possible levels (homozygous without, heterozygous, homozygous with).