I've read alot of posts here and I can see that lots of people are suffering and others are doing quite well. The only reason I know anything thing about AS is from reading about Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber), and that he was speculated by some to have had it. I can see that I've had many experiences throughout my life that most diagnosed AS's are going through daily. I find it quite hard to even talk, or type , about myself. I see that some people can't wait to tell anyone who will listen or read about everything about them. I just feel too reserved for that. I was wondering if anyone ever had episodes like talking to themselves in a mirror for hours, or waking up from sleep while standing up in a different room from when they fell asleep in while laying down? If I get no replies it's ok because I'm used to being alone and not having anyone understand me.
I haven't had the experiences you're asking about.
Im not anything like you cause im really hyper, but you remind me of my little sister. She used to have night terrors and sleep walking, she used to end up in someone else's bed. And guess which bed it would be... yeah mine.. She also doesnt like to talk about her self, i have no idea if she talks to herself in the mirror, probably not because she says she cant even dance in the mirror when no one is around cause she has a super low self esteem.
I dont talk to myself in the mirror because i hate the way my face looks when i talk, i look so un-natrual, but i talk to myself alot when i make sure no one can hear me, but not for hours, i have a short attention span.
So i guess i can see where you're comming from.
And you better get used to not being alone cause you always got us to talk to. Or just me in case they dont want to. I understand alot of things, and i understand my sister so i understand you, at least so far. :grin:
Hi Soccer Freak...I'm super hyper too. I wake up at 4:30 in the morning to go to community service and my hands shake like leaves even before I drink any coffee. I'm sorry to hear about your sister, it must be hard to watch a family member go through something like this. When I talk to myself in the mirror I get lost in thought or imagination...maybe delusion, I don't know. But I can be "gone" for hours and forget I was there. My self esteem is nonexistent so I know what it's like. ................................................A dark room my world, life no longer turns me on.
I have to wake up at four for an EEG tomorrow, i was supposed to sleep in for an extra half hour but OOOO no Im not allowed. I only get 3 hour sleep today.
Michelle rarely sleep walks anymore, but now that she doesnt i miss her warmth next to me while i sleep, she's such a sweetie.
I get lost in my imagination to, or talk to myself about how much i hate myself and way does my life suck so far. When im at school i like to imagine that im a character from the books i write and they experience what i do. Or i think about what school day they will have. I love thinking about it, it makes me happy. It makes me get good new ideas what to write about.
I have a friend named Matt who has AS, he talks to himself too while he is scetching pictures of a play sceen as if that is how he plays pretend, he loves drama.
Community Serivce?HA sorry it sound fun, what arer you doing fo it and what did you do may i ask?
I'm doing community service because I can't afford to pay a 1,062.00 fine. I'm doing my service at a church. It's nothing hard, just maintenance and cleaning. I work with three other guys and they are all there for community service, too. The fine I couldn't pay was for drunk driving with injury. I blacked out while driving home one night and rearended a car at a stoplight. He claims he was hurt but in the police report it stated that all the tests he was subjected to at the hospital came back negative. Why are you only allowed 3 hours of sleep a day? It's cool that you write books, I wish I had some sort of talent such as that.
I could only sleep for three hours because for the test they said i have to go to bed 2 hours later and wake up two hours earlier. I usually go to bed at midnight, but i said i usually go to bed at 11. And I wake up at 6 for school, so i had to wake up at four. If i didnt lie i would have only gotten 2 hours sleep.
I don't actually talk to myself, I just quote stuff out loud to myself. I have an extreme fondness of quotes, and my list grows every day.
When I do talk to myself, I say stuff like "Now where did my pencil go?" and "What to draw next? Vo? Me? Vo and Me?" Which seems perfectly normal to me because characters do it in movies and other characters don't question it if they notice. I watch more movies than actual people, so naturally, I act like a character in a movie.
that would be echolalia, I have that extremly annoyinghly bad, but 90% it's in my head. It's usually a line from a song, over and over again. Or sometimes I sing the smae line over and over again, it annoyed my sister on vacation.
i talk to myself in the mirror but more often without the mirror. i usually only use the mirror for serious conversations!may i ask what kind of mirror conversations you have?its okay if you don't want to answer that though
I don't really ever talk to myself. Though if I ever just completly forget what I am doing, usually in the middle of a busy shopping centre, I will ask myself what I am doing out loud.
I hate echolalia, I usually get a small piece of music about 2 seconds long and repeat it for hours in my head.
I used to be afraid of mirrors I thought if I can see myself in the mirror who else might be watching, mild paranoia I guess, though I've got over it now.
Hi James 8170, you mentioned in your post that you're suprised that people with AS can break the law or commit crimes. I would never want any attention thrust upon me whatsoever. I would way rather be just a face in the crowd when I am out in public, which is hardly ever. I didn't premeditate anything, I just drove home drunk and made a mistake. I know what you mean when you say you don't want any attention from the police. It's hard to talk face to face with people I don't know so I never make eye contact. When I was in jail for my incident was the hardest thing I ever did. Not so much the confinement but being forced to be in a jail cell with 19 other guys, who, in my opinion, were all idiots. I was considered "the weird, quiet one." I tried to stay in my own little world while the rest of the guys all tried to present themselves as the alpha male.
I talk to myself too, sort of, I'm usually thinking about characters in a random fantasy of mine and don't do it in front of people unless I absent mindedly forget, lol.
I get the randomest things in my head, for example I had an advert for Cold & Flu medicine going round in my head for a couple of days recently, and that's just a guy talking, not even set to a tune!
when frightened or upset i tend to talk to jaffy (my stuffed animal giraffe) people think its weird but......
oh and sometimes i talk to myself in the mirror
I've read alot of posts here and I can see that lots of people are suffering and others are doing quite well. The only reason I know anything thing about AS is from reading about Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber), and that he was speculated by some to have had it. I can see that I've had many experiences throughout my life that most diagnosed AS's are going through daily. I find it quite hard to even talk, or type , about myself. I see that some people can't wait to tell anyone who will listen or read about everything about them. I just feel too reserved for that. I was wondering if anyone ever had episodes like talking to themselves in a mirror for hours, or waking up from sleep while standing up in a different room from when they fell asleep in while laying down? If I get no replies it's ok because I'm used to being alone and not having anyone understand me.
Talking to yourself? Well, a lot of us do that; but I haven't heard of using a mirror. How often do these things occur? Because if you do this very often, it will use up time you need to do other things with...
Waking up in a different room is probably plain-vanilla sleepwalking, and nothing much to worry about. (You could tie a hand to the bedpost, so that you'd be woken up when you tried to leave your bed, though.) Sleep disturbances are common among Aspies.
Seems to me you're an introvert--you like to keep to yourself. That's OK. Just be sure you have someone you can go to if you get into trouble you can't get out of on your own. Being socially isolated can mean that things like depression don't get treated; and being depressed just plain sucks, and is pretty common comorbid of AS as well.
I do exactly the same as Graelwyn. I actually noticed someone in the change room I was cleaning out at work was looking at me the other day whilst I was jibbering to myself. I just pretended I hadn't seen him and announced out loudly "Note to self. Stop talking to self." He nearly killed himself laughing and walked out patting me on the back. I think he thought the whole thing was a set up to the joke with those two lines being the punchline of it.
Whew! Lucky escape. LOL