Now, I meet the criteria for Aspergers and all, symptoms etc, but i'm still quite unsure. Back in childhood I developed early, walked 9 months, crawled 6 months, and talked either 9 or 10 months. Keeping those in mind, I don't see how I could have Aspergers. I started to develop oddly around Kindergarten. I remember this assignment where we had to write " A B A B" in a line over and over again. I was horribly motorly uncoordinated as a child. I use to criticize people about how they smelled and how they looked funny, always unknowing about emotions. I also drew and colored horribly, and I use to write on paper in all capital letters, until my 1st grade teacher showed me otherwise. When it came to a coloring assignment, I would scribble really fastly on the paper, until my 1st grade teacher showed me otherwise to use different colors. I reacted oddly with other children around my elementary years, like if they were sitting in my seat, I would slowly pull the seat and they would fall on the floor. I did it once, but I did it for the reason being they were in my seat. I always behaved differently. I would get complaints by teachers "Would rather do what he wants rather than what the class is" and "Needs to follow directions" and that was mainly in classes like Gym or Art. I learned how to tie my shoe in about second or third grade. Another method, since the "go around the loop" method, after attempting it numerous times, wasn't working for me. My 2nd (or 3rd) grade teacher showed me a far easier method I still use to this day, I have absolutely no knowledge on the "around the loop" method. I remember my 3rd grade teacher wanted to keep me after school once, and I took it as punishment, when it was in reality work help. I was banging my head on this stand and was crying and having a fit. All in all my elementary years weren't all too great. I started to react more well in 7th grade up to today, still need to make some improvements, especially my social status.
Most aspies dislike to interact with others. Do you feel uncomfortable being near others, to look them in the eyes and talk with them?
I absolutely hate looking people in the eye when I talk. Always have. I always feel being near people I don't know well enough, I rarely talk with people in a full discussion in real life, on the internet is more better, and when I do talk with them in real life, they usually lose interest with talking to me about things, or want me to say something else, but don't quite know what.
Like something else than your interests? Aspies are known to talk alot about their special interests, which they are often intensely obsessed with. I currently don't have any however and I think that's normal for some other aspies aswell.
I like other things to an extent, but my main large interest is technology and lately I have been having a fascination of decompiling and recompiling electronics, to see how they work and how they are connected and specific wires. I absolutely love computers, and if it was up to me, I would be on it all day.
I'd say definitely more or less aspie.
Welcome to the AFF forums Mguy!
Yeah, I would agree in between as well on the most part. And thank you for the welcome.
The way I see it aspies are very different from eachother, you may not have some traits which others have and you might have some traits which some other aspies don't have.
Yeah. I also have rituals. Like I have to brush my teeth for exactly two minutes, which I read off of my cable box clock. It annoys me, but I feel I have to do it. Also when I was trying to fall asleep and it turned to either a time like "11:10 11:20" anything that ended in a zero, I would sit up in my bed and look in the hallway. I felt I had to, but I stopped that. I need to buy a stopwatch, since I find reading off of the cable box is annoying.
Back! I think I am "less" aspie than other aspies, I think it could have something to do with my current environments. I am not sure if I stim, if there's a break at school I usually just sit and wrap myself in my jacket and wait for the jungle of chatting to calm down, partially trying to sleep. I think this is perhaps more like meditation which seems to be similar to stimming.
I don't have any major obsessions which I've held on to for a long time, the first obsession I had was probarbly Sonic, later Bionicle(lego technic) and then suddenly norse mythology which started after I played the microsoft PC game Age of Mythology. Later I've only had some small random obsessions, currently none, this have lasted for a long time.
But I don't have any friends, I get easily disliked at school and I was bullied especially at primary. I don't like to talk and watch people in the eyes. I've an IQ between 120-135, a little better at calculating in my mind(which isn't for all aspies) and I've talent for drawing and other things which I barely do(I drew my AV and signature).