TheAP wrote:
Welcome! How would you say your Asperger's affects you?
Well it makes me anxious like constantly, I am always in an anxious state. If something comes along that am new to puts my anxiety on overload.
I can't filter out sounds, I hear EVERYTHING in my environment at a near identical level. Changes in lighting also causes stress.
I get hyper interested in various almost random topics and they change almost weekly.
I am very set in my ways and change in daily rutiens.
Spelling and speaking have been two very big issues for me, I can talk but I feel it was sort of a forced learn to talk when I wasn't ready as a small child. I prefer not to talk and when I do Its very anxious process. I can convey so much more in a form like this (writing) then in vocal conversation.
In conversation I can't understand sarcasm or double meanings of words/phrases. This leads to me being offended or saddened at "jokes" directed towards me. I view the speaking world in a literal sense so I take what is heard spoken literally.
There are probably more that escape my mind right now.
~CR