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This one's about the "wide range of abilities and disabilities" of AS. From Liane Holliday Willey's "Pretending to be Normal":

"In truth, many AS people will never receive a diagnosis. They will continue to live with other labels or no label at all. At their best, they will be the eccentrics who wow us with their unusual habits and stream-of-conscious creativity, the inventors who give us wonderfully unique gadgets that whiz and whirl and make our life surprisingly more manageable, the geniuses who discover new mathematical equations, the great musicians and writers and artists who enliven our lives.

At their most neutral, they will be the loners who never know quite how to greet us, the aloof who aren't sure they want to greet us, the collectors who know everyone at the flea market by name and birth date, the non-conformists who cover their cars in bumper stickers, a few of the professors everyone has in college.

At their most noticeable, they will be the lost souls who invade our personal space, the regulars at every diner who carry on complete conversations with the group ten tables away, the people who sound suspiciously like robots, the characters who insist they wear the same socks and eat the same breakfast day in and day out, the people who never quite find their way, but never quite lose it either."

I pray I fall into the first category!

The thoughts of falling into the second or third categories scare the crap out of me

I'm abit of the frist and secord.

I'm mostly of the second and a bit of the third. I try to interact and nobody seems to want to know.

Julie

All three sound a bit like me, but the second one the most, if I have to choose.

I think I am like the second part