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Hello everyone! I came here as im pretty sure i have AS. At first i though i had avoidant personality disorder or schizoid personality disorder but after reading about AS a few months later it seemed to fit me perfectly where as i only had a few traits or the others.

My parents totally dismiss the fact that i quite possibly have AS, even though after talking to my mom i had several indicators of AS as a child (banging my head against the wall in my crib all the time. Rocking back and forth(which i still do to this day), despised going to preschool i would ball my eyes out and beg my mom to not make me go, etc) Although AS didn't really become a diagnosis til i was already 6 years old. I'm sure i had quite a few more symptoms then that but my parents wont even really talk about it with me haha..

Now a days i have 2 or 3 friends which live in my neighborhood it seems anyone i know that moves away i just lose all interest in contacting them because i dont like going anywhere really. I havent worked in over 2 years and im not really sure why. If someone i know offers me a job i normally take it and im fine although i do get picked on for never really talking to anyone or not being able to keep a conversation going past "hey how are you, nice outside today isnt it" I just feel like i have no idea what to say to people. I also hate keeping eye contact with people. When im talking to someone i keep telling myself make eye contact, make eye contact but then it gets awkward because i think im staring into there souls or something haha. I hate the telephone when i have to call someone i normally procrastinate as long as i can and then in my head ill tell myself exactly what i need to say to the person so i already have it planned out, once i get on the phone thou i normally never say what i was going to in the first place lol. I have a few intense interests which seem to take up all my time. I've played video games since i was in the 6th grade and i become a huge fan if Major League Gaming. I can recite every team in order of there placings and every person on each team in the Halo category. I also just got very interested in mycology and i feel in the 2-3 months ive been studying it im already extremely smarter then people who have been doing it for 6 months+ probably because i just read random facts all day long haha. And of course im also ALWAYS on the computer when im at home which is pretty much all the time. I've noticed when im doing something related to these interests nothing else matters im just in the zone.

I hate going out to bars or going to parties unless its just a little get together with some people im good friends with. I also hate when people touch me, even hugging my grandparents feels awkward to me. I just recently realized what my stimming was now a days. It used to be rocking back and forth normally while i was in a car is when i would do it the most, now i dont do that much anymore but i realized i rub my teeth with my tongue all the time when im around people i dont really know or if im nervous etc. Anyways im sure theres a lot more, might add it later once i think of it. Its hard to think of everything you do when its just a normal thing to you lol. but hopefully you have a little info about me now haha

Thanks for reading and hopefully ill be sticking around for a while

Hi. That was an interesting post.

Welcome to WP

I'm new here too.
I'm diagnosed as mild Asperger.I think I had more Asperger's traits and symptoms when I was in kindergarten.

I still get a bit embarrased when I have to keep eye contact with people and talk with someone on the phone. I know how you feel about those things.Others advised me to look at their nose or forehead etc. instead of looking in their eyes.As for telephone,I think and write down what to say before making a call recently.Hope this helps.

I think it's interesting that you are interested in mycology and good at it very well because I don't know anything about it.

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Hi and WELCOME!

Thats a good adwise, looking at other parts of the forehead. - I look at the persons mouth, and being mild hearing impared gives me a good excuse to not look in other persons eyes...
Only problem i have, is that i sometimes forget to look at the person talking. - Continue looking at something in a persons face that has "caught my eyes"... Until i were diagnosed, my colleagues found that ackward. But now they know, they'we just accepted that, and so many other specialties...

Hi, welcome,
I think I can understand about your anxiety in crowds. I like small groups of people too. I like friends who I would typify as like broken in, comfortable shoes. I can be in a whole room of them, but having to socialize with more than one new person at a time is tough.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Hi Misto & everyone else
I concur with all that you have written regarding your symptoms except for the rocking & headbanging, I am in my mid 40's, have a wife & family and did not realise I had a condition to which a label could be attached until my son was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at the age of 10, I just believed I was odd or unsociable as I had been told on many occasions.
In a meeting at school with health professionals, the word Asperger's was used as a possible cause for my son's behavioural traits, naturally after the meeting I consulted the Oracle (Google) and I was overwhelmed by the common mannerisms which both my son presented, and I could also associate with my own "oddness and unsociableness"
I have distinct problems with eye contact, I hate people touching me, I go off into distant lands when people are talking to me, concentrating on one thing they said at the beginning of the 'conversation' and extrapolating thoughts about that subject in my mind, obviously missing the point of whatever came next.
I, like yourself would procrastinate if a telephone call needs to be made.
I have always been gainfully employed and earned well because, I believe, I know my stuff and can deliver what my employers require even though those around me do not hold me in high regard. --- I always prefer to work alone.
Like many Aspies I use words which may seem longwinded, I often find myself having to explain my words.
I do socialise a little but would prefer to be one on one when meeting friends as my normal friends tend to talk amongst themselves when I am around.

Welkome to WrongPlanet.

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