Any high functioning AS?

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I've been in denial about my AS for a while, of course when I was a kid I was just told I was midly autistic. Later I got diagnosed as AS. But I blew that off the same way I blew off being told I was autistic. I looked at people with the condition and I was like "No way that's me."

Even now I'm midly skeptical, and recently coming on here has made me even more so.

I do not dislike people, I'm pretty social, I have good relationships with the opposit sex, ect, ect.

But I guess what makes me AS is that at times I get spacy, I fall out of synch with people, I do not look people in the eye, I can't put together what I want to say properly, I can't do anything right at times, and I need a lot of space.

But somedays are better then others and I seem to rebound from this, and luckly people that know me are use to this. It use to be people thought I was having a nervouse breakdown or loaded up on drugs. lol

So are there any other people that kind of have a similar thing?

Well at first I didn't accept my AS but overtime I did and I come to see as a bestowed gift on me.

I know what your saying.

I had denied/ignored it from leaving school to the death of my father some 30 years later,

but now having admitted my weaknesses I now know my strengths

Definately. AS is often referred to as high-functioning autism, and many people with AS can accomplish extrordinary things.

Of course, our heightened focus & determination comes at the price of social skills, but I've gotten over it.

If you display the symptoms [to a professional] and they impair you in work, social activities and/or school (this is usually what leads someone to the professional in the first place); you have it.

There's a minimum criteria that one must meet; some have the minimum, some have the whole lot. But even this can be ambiguous and doesn't always define ones functioning (I have the whole lot for autistic disorder for example, but there's no way I'm "severely" autistic).

Heightened focus and determination? My focusing sucks

You would be surprised at how normal people with high functioning ASD's can appear. I enjoy social interaction myself. My relationships with the opposite sex are fine outside of romance (but that is more because of things in my life than AS).

The important thing to keep in mind is, every aspie is different.

I'm definitely high-functioning with my AS.

It's possible to be autistic and like socializing. Nothing in the criteria that says you must hate socializing - no, it says "impaired ability to socialize, blahblahblah". Meaning, you may want to socialize, but may not particularly know how to socialize.

I'm HFA and I have friends (okay, so at times, I don't read people right and some people may not be friends but acting like a friend to achieve whatever). I also have a boyfriend (who wants me to tell you all he's an NT). My boyfriend is aware of my autism and my 9 other conditions, so he's fairly understanding which makes it so much easier when socializing. He also realizes I need my "down time" to decompress for my auditory and sensory issues.

Most people think I'm lying when I tell them that I'm autistic.

Zilla, I felt the EXACT same way. A couple of times I also saw autism/AS as a bad thing and thought NO WAY, I'M BETTER THAN THAT!

Yeah, it was hard for me to cope with it, and even now. I just see people with the condition that seem to have a lot more troubles then I do, socially that is.

I think maybe that's because I wasn't properly diagnosed as a kid, and I just forced myself to adapt the best I could with other people.

What sucks sometimes is being SOOOOOO Close to being "normal" that the tension is nervewracking.

A high functioning case of AS is like a mild case of Halatosis.