list of female AS traits

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I'm tired of saying this several times a day on this forum, but that's me. Almost everything in these tables, that's me. Thanks!

I didn't know that crying easily was a trait of AS. This explains why I've always been a crybaby. It's really embarrassing.

Hah. Wash and wear hairstyles. My mom wants to get me a wig in case chemo/radiation makes me lose my hair and I'm just like "Why would I care? If people don't like it, why are they looking at me?"

I may get a wig for the fun of it though. I always wondered how I'd look as a strawberry blonde pixie.

Is youthful? God, I f*****g HATE that stereotype. People have thought I was 30 since I was 13.

Self-taught reader/hyperlexic: we had this contest in fifth grade for reading and my teacher accused me of cheating because I'd been reporting so many books read. My mom actually had to have a talk with her and say "No. It's all she ever does." My mom actually grounded me from reading one time. I have a picture of me at 18 months holding a newspaper, reading it.

May have one or many partial degrees due to struggle with social aspects of college: I have two, in French and linguistics. I made it to junior year before getting fed up with the kindergarten aspect of group work.

Sensory: I have crazy sensory issues, but I have to say that taste has never been a problem.

No GI problems.

I never leave the house.

I don't see the point in shopping with friends for the sake of doing it with friends (I'll go iff I need something). Same with "doing lunch." Am I hungry? No. Then f**k it.

On sex, I find that I hate kissing on the lips (I don't see the point), but I love it anywhere else. Can't get enough.

Thank you for posting this - there are possibly 4 or 5 things on the table that don't fit, but the rest is spot on!

Spot on for me too!

I really think the group work in college was worse than in high school. Its like you weren't expected to be able to do anything independently. Everything was always "get a partner" even for the stupidest, most simple things. Then you'd get graded with your partner and mine was always a lazy moron.

Well unfortunately for me I have a feeling that most of my classes in the future will require group work since I'm an education major.

I am SO glad they made something like this. It seems that almost all other research on Asperger's
is primarily about males. I was at first somewhat skeptical about my diagnosis but after reading info like this I know it has to be true. I've always had an intense love for drawing cartoons and I act like a "big kid" because I collect stuffed animals and play video games and like to read classic children's stories. If a top or t-shirt doesn't have a cartoon or video game character on it I don't consider it worth worth wearing and I wear blue jeans and sneakers almost every day. I hardly ever wear makeup and I think it's stupid to spend hours in front of the mirror slathering on greasy oily gritty face paint just to go do your grocery shopping! I used to hardly ever shave my legs but I do now because I'm fair skinned and dark-haired and I hate how they end up looking like gorilla legs though I seldom use anything other than bath water and soap. I used to role-play with my stuffed animals a lot even as a teenager and I still do occasionally in fact I wish I did it more often. I often have trouble finding the right words during conversations but I find it easier to write about them. I've often felt that I don't act really male or female. But maybe partly it's because I was raised that way. I can't stand injustice and often feel I have the world on my shoulders and it has caused me much anxiety and depression for the past 20 years or so of my life...

I can't remember NOT being able to read and I taught myself how to draw, swim, write, sew, cook and make crafts. Yet I couldn't figure out how to tie my shoelaces until I was around nine years old.

The list fits so many people here I can't help wondering if the wording may be just too generic. Perhaps someone should post it on a forum for NT females and see if they respond about the same or if we really are different.

I have taught myself so much, crafts, diy, photography, cooking... and run my own business now in something I taught myself

wow.... this describes very many aspects of me.

Wow. Most entries in both tables describe me. Thanks for putting it up.