Do you have any aspie traits missing?

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This is s topic to discuss any common Aspie traits that you don't have.

I have 2 main ones:

1. Even though I have strong special interests, I don't tend to talk to others about them, I prefer to keep them to myself.
2. I don't seem to have a resistance to change, I love to try out new ideas and things. (I have a few routines, but doesn't seem to be more than other people

Yes, I had delayed speech. Even though the diagnostic criteria says people with AS don’t have a speech delay. I didn’t start talking until I was 3 and a half years old. I guess it’s possible I may have PDD-NOS, but every thing else seems to indicate AS.

I like to try out new stuff too, but I don't deal with changes of plans very well. It takes me a while to get used to that. For example, if a friend suddenly calls to go do something together and I had planned a day for myself, I find it hard to accept the invitation.

Yeah, totally agree

I had delayed speech too. That's the (only?) reason I got diagnosed HFA rather than AS.

I don't stim as much as most Aspies afaik.
I'm also a loner by choice, unlike some(IDK if Aspies choose or not, or even are, not trying to make generalizations).
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Instead of avoiding eye contact, at some point in my adolescence I became fixated with eye contact, and make it almost unwaveringly.


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I guess I can picky about some changes, but there are a lot I don't mind. And I don't think I have much of an eye contact problem, although I can tend to look away for a few seconds from time to time.

There are a few I don't have, but I don't know how many of them are just stereotypes...

I don't think I have face blindness, but then again, sometimes if someone grows a mustache, I don't recognize them at all.

Hmm...there are a few I see every once in a while here that I don't have, but I can't remember the rest right now.

Double here. I was echolalic at 1-1/2 years old, which evidently counts as a language delay. Hence, I was "developmentally disabled" according to my mother, and "semi-autistic" according to my father. I'm guessing that translates into PDD-NOS.

Me too.
Me too.

That is also considered an Aspie trait, isn't it? 'Inappropriate' eye contact, be it avoiding it or staring. I am prone to both myself, although I try to stick with avoiding it, as people are far more uncomfortable with unwavering eye contact.

I knew an aspie woman who was very much a starer and she DEMANDED me to return eye contact ..she drove me nuts...Also I dislike unexpected physical contact and she was a patter..she kept pattting me, even though I told her to stop.


I am not too picky about my food, and don't mind if my foods touch...I do have a thing about the textures and prefer solid foods to have some sort of crunch..but that is about it.

Like you, I also have special interests but don't like talking about them with other people.
I can't really think of any other trait I don't have, may come back to add something.

What do you mean by delayed speech? Was it that you couldn't talk or didn't talk until 3.5 years old? I believe the DSM criteria focuses on "language acquisition" (see DSM comments) and the ability to communicate, as opposed to whether the child actually does communicate verbally.

For example, my Aspie son would rarely talk when he was a toddler/preschooler and then only a 1-3 words at a time. People would often ask me if he could talk because he would go hours without saying a word. He had a huge vocabulary and knew how to read and spell well beyond his peers (which he often demonstrated nonverbally). He COULD talk; he just didn't talk unless it was absolutely necessary to communicate something that he couldn't in another manner.

The only trait that I can't recall ever being brought to my attention (thus probably not what I ever did) is the so-called "stimming". Every other trait has been with me, for at least some of my 38yr life. I've been able to overcome many of them - one example being the gait - plus I've learned a lot about empathy for others.