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vassilizenit · (This post was last modified: 08-29-2008 07:32 PM by vassilizenit.)

I scored 158 in the Aspie test.

Everytime I hear someone say that's an Aspie trait, I find that I have it....lol, I thought it was just my personality!

But I'm loosing track of what traits Aspies have, & went looing for a list, but didn't manage to find a list......can we make one here?

Honesty
Social awkwardness
Monotone voice (I am told I have this)

xsurfer · 01-19-2010, 09:35 PM

Hi, good luck with the list. Good start. May i add :-

Hypersensitivity to critiscism
Outrage at any kind of unfairness (both real and imagined)
Holding a grudge (see above)

wootlebug · 01-21-2010, 01:23 PM

Let's see...

unusual sense of humour
inability to read other's faces and body language
lack of empathy
fixation on one particular activity of subject
overwhelming compulsion to make lists...;)

xsurfer · (This post was last modified: 01-21-2010 11:21 PM by xsurfer.)

Should have seen that coming i suppose..Hi Wootlebug.

dislike of team sports
lack of eye contact
oversensitive to bright light and or sounds

(must make list!)

january · 03-23-2010, 02:40 AM

You might try this link: http://www.asperger-advice.com/asperger-symptoms.html

All Aspies have parts of each of these, but we're all individuals, having some things more or less severely.

wootlebug · 03-23-2010, 11:01 AM

Hmmmm...

I do get hacked off by people labelling my personality traits as "symptoms" or "impairments". So what if I don't make friends easily? Isn't that preferable to foisting yourself on other people? OK, some people have these traits to the extent that they have trouble living in an NT world, but this is as much a problem for NTs as Aspies.

Rant over...

vassilizenit · 03-24-2010, 07:41 AM

Really cool replies :)

Yeah... it's easy toget paranoid and think there are problems..... just because others tell you what you do is wrong..... "Oh shut your mouth, how can you say.. I go about things the wrong way!" Ref. The Smiths

I have at times in my life, wished for a pill... that would take away my anxiety, that would help me make friends, I've wished for this, before knowing about Aspergers.

xsurfer · (This post was last modified: 03-24-2010 06:55 PM by xsurfer.)

Believe it or not, there is one. I heard on the radio a couple of weeks ago that some work has been done with serotonin. Not sure how far along it is though. I won't go into too much detail here though. PM me.
http://counsellingresource.com/ask-the-p...http://counsellingresource.com/ask-the-psychologist/2009/03/09/asperger-serotonin-ocd-

wootlebug · 03-25-2010, 10:31 AM

Thanks, I saw a short news item about this somewhere but the link was very interesting. As a matter or interest, I'd probably be a good test case as I've been taking a low level of antidepressants for years. They have hardly changed my AS "symptoms" at all. In fact in some ways they have merely entrenched the way I am.
I don't get so stressed about talking or socialising or dating, because I don't do it because I no longer get depressed about not having friends and thankfully the Prozac supresses my libido.
I'm probably a bit less obsessive about burying myself in work but I suspect that is because it is less of a displacement activity of the above.

BTW, I keep seeing this or that study on Aspergers, never know where to put them or whether anyone would be interested.

mbchb1972 · 03-26-2010, 12:31 PM

From my experience aspergers is situational. I have gone 37 years without ever experiencing any particular problem relating to my aspergers until I engaged in a new situation which was attending university. The sensory over load and academic criticism of work execerbated my hidden aspergers. All the traits listed are valid and in some situations I have all of them, but in others I have none of them.