Inverse Aspies

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Is anyone here an Inverse Aspie?

Here is a personal essay I wrote detailing, as best I can, my particular place on the spectrum. Can you relate?

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https://medium.com/invisible-illness/in ... 8bde299475

Some of this fits me. I now like social situations very much, but I am aware I am well behind the life experience curve. I don't have any learning difficulties, but my spatial skills are considerably weak.

William's Syndrome has been described by some as "inverse Autism".

Yes. Was gonna point out that there is a condition called "Williams Syndrome" that if often described as being "the opposite of autism". Folks with the syndrome have a compulsion to interact with other people, and cant be left alone. in contrast to autistics who will ignore others in the room and go into their own world in their heads supposedly.

The article is long but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with saying that the author is somehow "opposite of autistic", but that he has autistic behavior for the "wrong" reasons. But I haven't gotten to the conclusion yet.

I remember seeing a 60 Minutes piece about Williams syndrome. Those with Asperger syndrome were referred to as "little professors," while those with WS were "the little talk show hosts." People with AS were definitely introverts, while those with WS tended to be extroverted. Both tend to have trouble with social reciprocity, the give and take of conversation, although their issues are far different. Those with Williams syndrome tend to have far more severe health problems than people with Asperger's due to a chromosomal abnormality.

There's a guy at work, I don't know if he has Williams or Autism or both, but he can definitely talk your ear off if you let him (or even if you don't). He doesn't look like a typical Williams Syndrome person, but he's almost always smiling, and ready to tell you a story that has almost no relevance to anything =)

I feel bad because everyone else is always making fun of him.

I can be the same way, if I don't restrain myself, but due to my selective mutism, it's only with people I'm comfortable with, not any old random stranger.