Just read about AS on wikipedia...

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...and I have to say it creeped me out!

Its almost as if someone I don't know wrote an biography about me. I always suspected I was a little off, but didn't know how to describe the feeling in any way. Little tics that i have that i never really thought would be connected to anything were described exactly as i have them (the finger-thumb thing, clumsiness, etc).

Kinda reluctant to self diagnose, but i'm not going to take it any further really. I don't think there's anything that can be done, except chat with some interesting people online, mostly because if i do have AS i'm functional enough. Er...i'm a student, I'm terrible at studying because my mind wanders, but (perhaps because of AS?) I am very smart, so that helps with school. Though, it'd be nice if i could learn to apply myself.

I have some traits that i want to see if other people share, and if they're AS related or just a pecular human trait.

1) I have long two-sided conversations in my own head but then when i actually talk to the person am somewhat at a loss for what to say, and am mostly a very shy person. With computers/writing, however, i can express my self very well.

2) Terrible memory. Not long term, but absentmindedness. Sometimes i'll go upstairs to get something out of the fridge and my roommate will yell after me to fetch him something too, but in the time it takes me to walk up the stairs it might slip my mind.

3) Terrible sound filtration, ie if there's background music i will have a horrible time understanding what someone is saying though they're right near me and yet they can all hear just fine. This could be due to too many loud concerts, but i mention it b/c other people don't seem to have this problem.

4) Sometimes i feel like i'm the only sensible person around me, and other times i feel like i'm already starting to slip into dementia (without any real reason to think this) even though i'm 22.

5) I feel there is something...off. I want to compare it to having a hole in my soul (hey that rhymes!) that isn't terribly bad or anything, but it seems like there's just some little thing i could 'do' and this would go away. Yet for the life of me i can't figure out what that simple thing is.

Though, with all this I don't have a few of the signs that some of you talk about. My recollection abilities are pretty standard, and also I HATE to be alone. Even if we're not in the same room, i just hate being in an empty house. I really like meeting new people, i just consider myself awfully terrible at it. Luckily i have some good friends to help to those ends.

Well, thats a long enough post...thanks for reading this far

To WrongPlanet!! !

Sounds like Asperger's. I hate to be alone too. When you've been socializing with someone or some people do you feel a need to spend some time alone to collect your thoughts? I think when they say we like to be alone I think they mean that we just need to be alone to work on something rather than blabbering over it and working in a group maybe cause we're visual thinkers.

Sometimes I've noticed i've just spaced out what they're talking about if we're in a very long conversation. And yes, actually, afterwards i do need to take a second to think about what it was about so that it'll register and stay in my brain. Odd... I keep hearing about things like this that i just thought made me a little weird. Now i know why
Good to know i'm not (completely) crazy.

Ummmm... yes.

This is how I came to terms with having Asperger's, by reading the Wikipeida article. I had been officially diagnosed a few years before, but had decided that I wasn't...until I read the article. Spooky.

Nice to meet you, BAP22.

I'm glad you're here.

happy to meet you :D you already sound like an interesting person :D welcome to the Planet.

Welcome to Wrong Planet.

Welcome to WP BAP22, Wikipedia is the first place I went to learn
about AS, it answered alot of questions, but I am still learning about it.
Have you taken the Aspie test yet
http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

Reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

Here is a quote.

"The lack of demonstrated empathy is possibly the most dysfunctional aspect of Asperger syndrome"


In other words...the lack of pretending to care.

I have the same problems. I feel that I have a lot of knowledge, but can't seem to express it in the right way among others. I'll either forget things related to it or show it too much. This is an examply of my not finding "middle ground" as people say.

Collecting my thoughts and having everything in mind comes easy when I'm alone. But that's when I have no one to tell any information to. It can be frustrating.

Yeah...i feel like i have a lot of empathy, but most of the time feel like its faked.

Welcome to WP!