symptoms of asperger syndrome really defined

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AAM - can you publish your list in a single post? Reading the posts this late in the time line, I got lost trying to paste together the bits and pieces throughout the discussions.

sorry logic, i wrote this all down in longhand yrs ago when i was doing research in a library the old fashioned way

start hear and take the back pages a little at a time

On this I qualify, though I don't think I have it as intensely as folks with AS, or else my continuous stimming keeps it at bay.


Not me either. It might be more accurate to call my early reading ability hypolexia. I have auditory language processing problems, that I didn't know I had until about 20 years ago, that explaines a lot of it.

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Bearing up quite well, thanks You just got back from military service or am I getting you mixed up with somebody else?


Moderate, I think. It's been bad enough to have time off work and go onto meds, though only once or twice. I come from a stoical family so I've just bottled a lot of it. Things are a lot easier currently, as the employer cut me some slack after the diagnosis so I'm no longer trying to do things I can't do, and more importantly, if I should ever screw up royally because of the AS symptoms, it's a lot more unlikely that they'd see it as a disciplinary issue. But I'm still prone to it. Relatively small issues can easily spook me, though I seem to be good at retaining my grip through the scary times.


Yes that would make for a stressful life. With me it's the recurring drive to chuck myself into new social situations......very carefully controlled and nothing to write home about, but as they take me away from my usual aloof comfort zone (well-known friends only, one at a time, and for short times), all the social vulnerabilities that are usually so well-covered begin to show strongly, at least to me.....also I get so bored with a totally risk-free life and love the sparkle that comes with doing something a little bit gutsy.

I was way ahead of the other kids with numeracy and literacy in my first school. Dad had taught me my letters and numbers before I started school, also a few simple words, so it's hard to be sure that innate talent had much to do with it. As the work got less straightforward in the second and third schools, I gradually sank, though I still passed all the important exams. These days I have a dislike of numerical puzzles and some word games, though I've always enjoyed using the aspects of mathematics I understand on real-life problems, and I like writing and reading as long as it's the right stuff for me. I feel some sense of fascination for words and numbers which has nothing to do with their use-value.....they seem to have an artistic content.

Yay this thread is back from the grave!

Comorbids
1- attention defecit disorder(ADD)
I have traits, for example I have a short attention span and I can get hyper if I'm in a really good mood and my executive dysfunction is pretty bad. But I have not been officially labeled with AD(H)D.

2- hypertension
Nope not at all

3- depression
Mild-moderate. I do have bouts here and there but I'm not clinically depressed.

4-anxiety
Moderate. I do get social anxiety a hell of a lot. And I worry too much.

5-hyperlexia
nah, I did learn to read pretty quickly and was usually at a higher level that the other kids but I think that's just because of my general intelligence. I am atrocious at maths and I'm mediocre-OK in english.

Here you go all compiled in a nice enumerated list for you!

been awhile since i was last here