What Difficulties do you have?

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What things as Aspies don't you understand in general life and interacting with the world? I'm curious to know what difficulties others have in comparison to myself (I don't really know any other Aspies).

Just keep in mind that I'm not after overly-broad things (like 'social interaction).

Thanks.

I have a hard time communication verbally to people what I think and what I am feeling, like talking openly with people. Small talk, looking people in the eye. And I can never get used to working or going to school with people for so long, and then when someone new has been there for like two days, they have a better connection with the people there in that short space of time than I could ever have with all the time in the world.

I have very little self-discipline. It's so hard for me to stick with anything I'm not obsessed with. When I get a new obsession I want to pursue it to the exclusion of all else. I get extremely agitated if I'm forced to leave my obsession alone and do something else.

I "space out" a lot in group situations, and I don't know who I should look at and who I should listen to, because people are talking all the time. I'm slow to react, and I often can't understand what people are meaning - I sometimes answer questions automatically, although I've not understood them yet. I'm often wondering what to say, because I'm poor at small talk. I also get tired after socializing.

Thanks for the responses guys, I wasn't sure if the question was going to be a hit-and-miss.

Any more answers would be most welcome

well let me see. ummmmmmmmmmm i blank out easily (sensory overloads) thats not a good look. because i lose my abiltity to talk when i like that. i take things very literally. i can never read body language and facial expressions and i don't know how to express what i feeling which this all leads to me exploading at the end of the day totally if people get in the way of "my time" to me self. i don't like not knowing. This is just to name a few

im usually hot or miss...either i am right on with reading people or i am completely lost...i space when someone says something that i have not considered and i take a while to respond...i think my biggest problem would be dealing with the ridicule of being considered slow because of my sensory overloaded moments....im very sensative about it and will spend an entire day thinking myself down from a remark or comment from someone....

WOW, and I thought MY response was MINOR.

OK, I DO have social problems....

The meltdowns(apparantly the are), can be bad, though luckily they don't happen often, and I usually handle them ok.

The sensory stuff is nasty sometimes. If you are more sensitive than everyone else, THEY DON'T CARE!

And as for the "spacing out", I am beginning to wonder exactly how often I do it. It DOES happen at traffic lights, sometimes while driving, and sometimes just while "kicking back".

Luckily, I am conscious, etc..., so it isn't dangerous, but time could pass faster, etc...

And YEAH, I have the problem of answering questions I don't hear for several reasons, one of which is that delay.

Steve

Where do I begin?

I rarely know when people are lying- even if it's a really obvious lie they're saying as a joke. I constantly embarass myself by saying or doing the wrong thing. I do strange things in public. Social boundaries and expectations change with every new situation and I can't keep up. When I'm around other people I am constantly thinking about what I should or should not do or say and it's exhausting. I make mistakes all the time anyway. I can't keep it up so I space out a lot and just stop listening and responding to people even if they ask me direct questions. Then I don't know what was said and I look foolish later and people think I'm really stupid- like, really, really slow.

I can't stand to be around other people (other than my husband) for more than a couple of hours at a time. I get exhausted and I start to panic and I start making more mistakes like humming to myself or rocking back and forth or saying offensive things by accident.

I'm ridiculously disorganized. I'm always late for things and I forget appointments. I can't keep track of my finances. I can't even remember to do my laundry. Rules and regulations and deadlines are completely fuzzy to me; I don't do my taxes, I never give library books back on time, I don't opt out of optional insurance policies I don't want that my student union offers so I have to pay for them because I didn't know they existed but everyone else did, et cetera. If it's not part of an obsession, then I am oblivious. If I am made aware of something that isn't related to an obsession, I usually promptly forget it completely.

I'm kind of immature; I seem to 'wake up' to things much later than my peers. I don't sleep well; I have always had a great deal of trouble falling asleep. I don't like music because it's too loud and distracting- if there's music playing, it's all I can hear and think about. High-pitched sounds, including voices, beeps, buzzes, dings and hums, drive me absolutely insane.

I didn't speak more than a small handful of words until I was about six years old. I still have difficulty speaking. I can communicate in type just fine, but as soon as I open my mouth, everything gets garbled. I mangle words, I stutter a little, and I forget what I was going to say- even if I'm not nervous, but it's worse if I am. I also have difficulty following other people's speech; my hearing is very good, but I find myself reading lips a lot.

I cannot do aerobics or follow a dance teacher's instructions to save my life. I can't make my limbs connect to what another person's limbs are doing. I ruin jokes because I don't understand them. When I make my own jokes, other people usually don't "get" them. I offend people by correcting their grammar or their facts.

Those are some of my issues.

Well,

All that non verbal stuff that we are not supposed to pick up on. I had no idea it was there at all until I studied Neuro Linguistic Programming. Now I know what I miss, but stil miss it! I actually get some, but am I late in getting it or am I incorrect or what? Dunno, but most human non verbal/nonlogical goes right past me.

It would seem that my transmissions of mt emo states are about as poor as my reciept of them.

Someone here on WP made a thread asking if we consistantly and correctly I'D our emos. I had not considered that, but since reading it I must wonder if I even have the same emos as others!

My dyslexia is okay now as the rearrangements correct poor spelling and grammar-but I am not a proofreader.

I still have functional trouble with dysgraphia, but less swith spell check.

I cannot read my own lnghand and as such have not used it for years.

I am insomniac and this is worsened by this damned hyper sensitive hearing! If I could alter 1 thing about me I think that would be it.

On the other hand I would seem to have a goodly case of CAPD, and add to the input issues above, I find socializing with more than one or two people difficult.

I do take things literally, but that can be humorous, so not much of a problem.

I am clumsy as +==* and walk into stuff and am afraid of stairs.

I can generaly control my monotone, and desire to deliver datadumps, but have acquired these skills within the last few years. I sometimes fail to control them.

I do several autistic things that, now that I am sensitive to them I realize must really make me look goofy!

I have meltdowns, some of which cause shouting and throwing. I try to do in private.

I have a horrible time at face recognition. If I run into someone who I've seen only once or twice a year, even if they live in my neighborhood, I don't recognize them. I then often don't recognize people if I've met them originally at school, and then I see them out of context in a grocery store or at the movies.

Emotional logic blows me away if there is no reason. I'm REALLY good at finding the reason in everything and thus concluding but boy them feelers can really throw you sometimes.

I have difficulties getting along with some other personality types. We clash a lot. I've learned to analyze people especially authority figures such as teachers because there are some people I just wont get a long with. My levels of I N T J are really unbalanced, something like 75/25, 70/30, 90/10, 70/30 which is something I'm working on because there are people I clearly clash with.. also considering I'm a type 8/1.

I have troubles PROVING I know something. One of the reasons HS is so hard for me and why I'm going to just get the courses I need from my SLT and than take the GED and move on to college. I can't understand 'simple' often and its annoying. Like this one teacher (brilliant guy but teaching wise we just clash. he was clearly an ESTP ) He was so disorganized and repetitive it was frustrating. He gave us an example of how "psychographics" in the market are used in real life. Well i already know what psychographics are and already came up with ways they were used so when he handed it out and expected us to just read it and... that was it I got frustrated, annoyed and didn't get it.

I have a lot of trouble extroverting honesty when it comes to myself. I don't lie in my analysis on anything else but in order to keep people away from my internal sanctuary, my life, all that is me - my mind. I will push, lie, and bite constantly. I've done it all my life and this is mainly why when I was really young people thought I had a mood disorder when that most certainly was not the cause of all my problems. Of course, I didn't know and I couldn't extrovert what was inside my world at that time as it was even too complex for myself. I guess this runs with the idea that my world is highly individualized to myself and in order for others to understand it I must reorder it in a context that makes sense to the general which is hard for me.

I'm very critical and don't often let others come to the conclusion because the conclusion is often the first thing I see and THAN I work out how it happened, often in multiple ways. Ect blah blah. I really have to work on this when I start interacting with people again because apparently it gets people a little defensive when you shove your righteous judgment in their face and than give them a little bit of the detail of how you got there.

I lack boundaries - as in I don't often know how I come across to others or how I effect them. I also often don't give a damn which is probably just as unhealthy. Ego.

I do NOT work well with others. Its very rare I can tolerate group projects because of my need to have everything done to MY standards and liking, ego and blah blah.

I've been in isolation for almost a year and a half now though - sadly forgetting how I actually do interact with people. I like to think I'm fantastic at everything but soon realize when I have to interact with people I am not so fantastic. Hilarious how it often slips my mind though until the next run about.

HORRIBLE SHORT TERM MEMORY.
I have no idea what I just did this morning but ask me next week and I'll explain it perfectly and even give you a f*****g diagram and picture play by play of EVERYTHING I saw, did, ect.

There's a whole lot more. Mostly my social awkwardness.