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I'm 19 years old, and my name is Kris. Its kind of late so I'm not really in the mood to write out a long description about myself.

To try and make this short, I'm not sure if I have AS. I had MANY of its characteristics when I was a child, as young as 6-10.

I was reading on here and share very similar feelings to some posters from their stories and situations that they've shared. Its upset me pretty much.

Though about myself, when I was a child I could say I had narrow obsessive interests, however that is not the case at all with me now. I am interested in music, am learning an instrument, play video games, read literature, read about psychology, philosophy, political philosophy, etc. I am simply just not interested in Sports, because it doesn't appeal to me. However, when I was a child, I only wanted to play video games and wasn't interested in any other s**t.

This made me socially depleted because I only stayed inside and my world was limited to only gaming and watching anime. This all changed around when I hit 13-14 though and started 9th grade in High School.

Another thing I don't have is being incapable of reading body language/gestures/tone of voice etc. I don't recall ever having this issue, I'm pretty sure I can pick up on all the social cues too. I definitely do understand someone's mood, and am able to read their facial expressions.

I'm also completely independent with things like schoolwork, and I never needed help in High School and can understand things and read normally.

Two things I do have though are being bad at conversation, being socially awkward and having really bad anxiety. About two years ago, I started medicating myself with pills, mainly Vallium and painkillers to deal with the anxiety.

There is a chance where some people can "grow out" of AS at those ages, if they have it. I have been told by teachers once that knew me well that I don't have AS, when I was in middle school, two teachers in particular who knew me really well. Not AS, but that the problem was I had no father figure at all. I had no male role model to model after.

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Hello and welcome greetings to the WP neighborhood, Kris.

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Hi, Kris! I'm in the same situation, though a bit older. I had many Asperger's traits as a child and still have some at this time. While I can read social cues and have learned not to talk about my interests at length to everyone I meet, I absolutely hate cliques, peer pressure, gossip and duplicity.

You say you can read social cues - do you often find yourself producing social cues for a given purpose or automatically responding to a social cue with another? There may well be different types and degrees of Asperger's, in my (thoroughly uneducated) opinion.