list of female AS traits

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Most of those sound a lot like me . So weird to think of myself as this oddball all these years and then to have it all reduced to chart form.

Obsessions with opposite gendered celebrities, from any modern era, since the begining of TV and Rock n Roll.

I was floored by this table when I first saw it. I don't consider myself very severely AS, but almost everything on there applies to me, even things I never would have thought were associated with AS. I gave this list to my therapist.

I don't want to say this, because I've had to say it so often in life, and it's almost always been met with rejection. I thought for certain it was just because I'm an Aspie.

But it isn't. So. As usual, this list that's supposed to apply to me, to make me go "oh! Yes! I'm like that!" repeatedly... doesn't.

I am not immature in appearance, and my tastes are too eclectic to call them immature, though there are some "kiddy" things I like.

I do have obsessions, and many of them are not mainstream. (Am I the only one who knows what kind of personality Zyprexa would have if it were a human being? Am I the only one crazy enough to listen to J-pop while reading about psych meds and write down the best juxtapositions?) My views are utterly unlike anyone else's, I sometimes feel.

Granted I skimmed the list, and I agreed with at least two points: I don't care about hygeine and I don't really think of myself as female. (I'm NOT transgender. Just for the record. I don't think of myself as male, either. I just don't really care about gender and I wish everyone would stop judging everyone else based on it.)

I'll be really sad if I end up never having friends after I reach adulthood (whatever that means, but don't get me started on the utterly ARBITRARY age of majority). It wouldn't be as great a loss as, say, never speaking Japanese again, and I certainly could live a happy and full life, but all the same, I like friends. I like friends the way I like chocolate, not the way I like oxygen, but I wouldn't like to live without chocolate, either.

Wow, that list was really a lot like me...

Especially the part about exaggerated movements when excited. I use my hands way too much. And when I've forgotten something I wanna say I smack myself on the cheek.

I pretty much fit the whole table of traits for that. I posted that up on a website/forums I help run and it was quite interesting.

All but one of those points is me. I don't get physical when happy\excited.

Now I know I am a mental case...................

I'm not officially diagnosed, but everything on that list describes me.....

35! Excellent, this is useful. It's not just me listing my differences anymore, it's "hey, someone ELSE made this chart and look how well it matches!"

that's completely textbook. On me.

Wow that was very much like me, not all of it ofc.

that was really interesting. a lot applies to me too.

Thank you