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Are you textbook AS? - League Girl - 10-13-2010 11:51 PM
I'm not.
I am curious to see if there are any aspies here who isn't a textbook case of it despite having that diagnoses.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Shoneh - 10-14-2010 04:32 PM
No, I'm probably not a textbook case. When I first learned about it, I wasn't sure whether I was AS or PDD-NOS. I exhibit the specific interests and sensory components more than the social component. I also have not been perceived as lacking empathy.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - piePIEpie - 10-14-2010 11:58 PM
No I don't seem to have alot of problems people here post about.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Suedehead - 10-15-2010 02:04 AM
No. But what other case is there?
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Orion - 10-15-2010 02:24 AM
You failed to define the criteria of 'textbook AS'.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - skyblue1 - 10-15-2010 02:39 AM
I agree what is textbook AS, and how would I know I have it. I didnt know even I was on the spectrum till the doc told me. I stil dont know why I am different. To me, its everyone else that is different.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Aerodynamite - 10-15-2010 05:15 AM
I think I am the only one unless I have misunderstood the term Textbook AS which I may have!
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Genesis - 10-15-2010 05:36 AM
All I remember from my testing was to see if I could tell what was going on in the pictures (Which seemed to be flying lilly pads with frogs on them.)
RE: Are you textbook AS? - AspieGrrl - 10-15-2010 06:34 AM
Yes! Absolutely! Wait! No. I am much too snarky for that(you should hear me and my dad go back and forth! We both think it's funny and usually my ma starts laughing too
) I don't think I am, at least I know that I'm not stereotypical, but who is?
RE: Are you textbook AS? - 142857 - 10-15-2010 07:09 AM
I am very disorganized and messy, which seems to be the opposite of how aspies are supposed to be. My youngest brother and my son are the same, both of them worse than me in fact, so we all seem to have executive dysfunction. Apart from that I'd say that I am textbook HFA.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Ana54 - 10-17-2010 03:06 AM
I'm not textbook AS, therefore my diagnosis was changed from AS to PDD-NOS.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Planet*Louise - 10-17-2010 01:18 PM
I don't think many people are 'textbook', especially seeing as some of the 'textbook' traits are either not as common as professionals think or complete myths.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Ana54 - 10-17-2010 06:23 PM
Nobody on AFF seems textbook AS. I guess if they were they wouldn't be on AFF... they wouldn't be interested.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Aerodynamite - 10-18-2010 04:04 AM
Well I def was Textbook AS as a child.
I guess my AS got milder as I grew to embrace it, though I had no idea of what I had.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Chamuel - 10-18-2010 05:52 AM
Why?
You can't know what people are like in real life by reading posts on this forum. Forums help overcome communication difficulties.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Ana54 - 10-18-2010 10:35 AM
Why?
You can't know what people are like in real life by reading posts on this forum. Forums help overcome communication difficulties.
If thye were REAL textbook AS they'd be interested in like just 1 thing, PROBABLY not AFF.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Ruby2010 - 10-19-2010 10:55 AM
How do you know a persons special interest isn't online forums?
I actually did that SAME THING as part of my testing. I had to narrate a children's book that had flying frogs in it. Nifty, I assumed they just grabbed a random picture book from the waiting room. XD
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Newt - 03-20-2011 04:19 AM
Defintely `textbook' aspie I am. I just can not believe my characteristic can be defined so exactly like that. I used to think that I were "cast aside" by all the people except mother and aunts, and I were greatly greatly confused by human society, since there are so many illogical things happened. And I love Mr. Spock a lot. when I was diagnosed as aspie. I happily find that I am not alone and isolated.Indeed I am very happy to know that I am actually not alone. They said I am an eccentric,and they are wrong. We are aspies and they are eccentrics, they are looked like NT just becouse they are so many.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - 142857 - 03-20-2011 05:42 AM
I knew one Australian guy when I was in England in '98/'99 who was textbook AS, although I don't think he knew he was on the spectrum. He fit every stereotype to the nth degree, except maybe savantism. He was very smart but not a savant as far as I could tell.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - billyt - 03-20-2011 11:21 AM
The textbook allows 100,000 permutations of the classic symptoms of the syndrome and still fit diagnosis, so we all are, but no two of us are the same. But we are more alike to each other than any of us are to NTs.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Louise18 - 03-20-2011 02:05 PM
I am more similar to many NTs than I am to many AS people.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Aeolienne - 03-20-2011 06:39 PM
And vice versa in my case.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Shrek - 03-21-2011 05:22 AM
Me too. Was he gifted in like math, science, foreign languge, computer languages?
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Biologymajor91 - 03-21-2011 05:52 AM
I hate the term "textbook" when used this way
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Newt - 03-21-2011 01:33 PM
The term `textbook' indeed sounded peculiar.
Let's seek substitutions:
1. generally defined
2. typically defined
3. theoretically defined
4. typically and theoretically defined (AT&T)
5. formally defined
6. orthogonally defined
7. academically defined
8. specified
9. standard
...
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Aeolienne - 03-21-2011 02:18 PM
What does "orthogonally defined" mean?
RE: Are you textbook AS? - Newt - 03-22-2011 07:06 AM
In microprocessor architectures, An instruction is said to be orthogonal if it can access any register in any addressing mode. An early example, like the Motorola's 6809, whose instruction set is highly orthogonal, and today's most RISC machines' instruction sets are orthogonal.
I use the term to refer to the idea of one-to-all mapping (an aspie matches all the items of an AS diagnose standard), and it is obviously not an offical term that refer to aspies. I constructed it just for fun.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - 142857 - 03-22-2011 07:59 AM
In microprocessor architectures, An instruction is said to be orthogonal if it can access any register in any addressing mode. An early example, like the Motorola's 6809, whose instruction set is highly orthogonal, and today's most RISC machines' instruction sets are orthogonal.
I use the term to refer to the idea of one-to-all mapping (an aspie matches all the items of an AS diagnose standard), and it is obviously not an offical term that refer to aspies. I constructed it just for fun.
Hey Newt, your English is getting a lot better. You must be on one of those really fast-learning English courses or something 
I'd better go, I'm off to find my new socks.
RE: Are you textbook AS? - black butterfly - 03-23-2011 03:40 AM
i am very un text book