Based on this:
http://www.asha.org/about/publications/l...70123c.htm
Do you think you are more HFA or AS?
Based on the verbal vs. visuospatial skills, HFA for me. (Problem is my short-term memory messes with my practical IQ scores, even though spatial is my strongest skill)
I am fairly equal in both verbal and visuo-spatial. So I don't know which one.
My extreme verbosity would seem to indicate AS, if I have understood this article correctly, but I learn best neither by watching demonstrations nor by listening to spoken instructions, but by physically doing the task. I tend to tune out lenghty spoken instructions, not because I have trouble understanding individual words, but because I have trouble absorbing the directions as fast as they are spoken.
I learn best neither by watching demonstrations nor by listening to spoken instructions, but by physically doing the task. I tend to tune out lenghty spoken instructions, not because I have trouble understanding individual words, but because I have trouble absorbing the directions as fast as they are spoken.
Yes those two points apply, although to be honest spoken instructions do very little for me. If I have the choice between spoken and visual, then visual every time. But yes actually doing something is the ONLY way I can genuinely learn something.
Yeah I'm HFA too.
And since HFA and AS are often used synonymously in diagnosis I think you can stop worrying about being "misdiagnosed". PDD = Autism, and high-functioning Autism (IQ > 70) = HFA. 
I understand the want to have it done properly though, it unnerved me when my psychiatrist (who is VERY experienced and highly respected in her field) used them so interchangeably in her report.
My extreme verbosity would seem to indicate AS, if I have understood this article correctly, but I learn best neither by watching demonstrations nor by listening to spoken instructions, but by physically doing the task. I tend to tune out lenghty spoken instructions, not because I have trouble understanding individual words, but because I have trouble absorbing the directions as fast as they are spoken.
I am exactly the same way, and I am also extremely verbose.
I am also very visual. Yet, my spatial skills are lacking.
I am exactly the same way, and I am also extremely verbose.
I am also very visual. Yet, my spatial skills are lacking.
That would point more towards AS then, I guess. (E.g. left-brained, although I hate that word. "Brained" in slang here means having your head smashed in!)
By the way I wonder if there may be a correlation between maths problems and spatial problems... I will have to go over the autobiographies I have read, and see if there is...
um..the learning style thing..can i remember?
oh yes.
mine is:doing,seeing,hearing.from best to worst style.
um..the learning style thing..can i remember?
oh yes.
mine is:doing,seeing,hearing.from best to worst style.
I meant based on that article, not general learning style.
Same order for me though
Does reading count as seeing for you?
i do indeed count reading as seeing
i do indeed count reading as seeing
Me too
By the way I wonder if there may be a correlation between maths problems and spatial problems... I will have to go over the autobiographies I have read, and see if there is...
I think there probably is. But that's just my educated guess.
I wonder if there is a correlation between math problems and sequencing problems?
I think there probably is. But that's just my educated guess.
I wonder if there is a correlation between math problems and sequencing problems?
Almost certainly - it's bound to cause problems with maths if you have problems remembering the right order of things, or if you translocate numbers.