symptoms of asperger syndrome really defined

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7 - bad or unusual personal hygiene I don't think so.

8 - sleep difficulties Me? No way. I drift right off to sleep if I am wrapped in a sheet, or heavy blanket. The more parts of me being touched, the more relaxing the impact. I have an online Aspie friend who I would swear experiences narcolepsy symptoms. Not me. I sleep very soundly. I guess if I have a sleep problem it would be that I require more sleep than most.

9 - low apparent sexual interest That term "apparent". Is that about what is appearant to observers? I suppose, compared to "manly" men, I might qualify. Many have expressed the opinion that there is no way one can have a non romantic relationship with members of the opposite gender because sexual attraction will always get in the way. I have been told many times that I am playing with fire having females as friends. It's very annoying.

Me neither.....I went to France for a day once, and couldn't find a thing to eat that wasn't full of salt, acid or hot spices. It was horrible. Yet the natives were just knocking it all back and enjoying it

I would term my attitude to personal hygiene "relaxed" - I refuse to get obsessional about it, but I don't like to stink either, nor to spread germs.


I can have a lot of trouble falling to sleep if there's any noise, too much light, heat, hunger, pain, or if the bed's not comfortable, I can have trouble falling to sleep. Also if I'm seriously anxious about anything, or if my mind is racing away and won't switch off. Luckily none of these things have happened to me very often.....I take pains to make sure they don't. I often pre-empt an expected bout of insomnia by staying up late and slobbing about till I'm tired enough to sleep. Cannabis used to help but I don't use it these days. Alcohol can work but makes me feel rough in the morning. Exercise during the day is good.

I had a bout of "terminal insomnia" - waking up early in the morning - for about a week, still don't know what caused that.....I was becoming sleep-deprived as a result, so it's lucky it went away.


As far as I know I'm normal for my age....and luckily for my partner I can hold an erection for long enough even when I don't feel up to it myself. And I don't get bored with the same partner. Actually I thought Aspies were supposed to be mostly into sexual perversions - not me, that kind of thing just makes me laugh or cringe.

I don't spend much time in private with women who might be construed as potential sexual rivals to my wife. Quite possibly in most cases there wouldn't be any real danger of infidelity, but I don't believe people are particularly monogamous by nature, and would hate to make a mistake, especially if I were going through a bad patch with my partner. And I wouldn't entertain a serious, monogamous sexual relationship with a woman who didn't extend the same favour to me.

This is an ongoing issue for me. I don't consider any of my friends to be sexual rivals to my wife. In fact if any of my friends were to offer, I would be greatly disappointed, and would be greatly tempted to terminate the friendship. In fact this has never happened. But appearances are important too. Appearances can cause almost as much potential embarrassment or wounding to my wife, and I tend to not be that cognizant of appearances. The only friendship that I don't have to worry about becoming misconstrued is a friendship with another male, which I am still striving to learn to trust. It's frustrating.

29- problems expressing empathy or comfort to/with others: sadness, condolence, congratulations, etc....symptom moderate to severe
Definitely. Severe.

30- difficulty in percieving and applying unwritten social rules or protocols.............symptom moderate to very severe
Yes, definitely me.

31-"flat affect".symptom mild to moderate
I’m not sure. Not with negative emotions, nor excitement. Maybe with positive?

32-low or no conversational participation in group meetings or conferences....symptom mild to moderate
I take that to mean no or low social conversation. Definitely. But if I have anything to say on the actual topic of the meeting, I will. Other than that, I tend to keep my thoughts to myself.

33-using social masks inappropriately (you are "xv" while everyone else is ????)...symptom mild to moderate
I don’t think I do social masking. I’m not sure. I don’t necessarily feel the same as others present do. And I may not appear to either. I’m probably not the best judge of this question.

34- apparent absense of relaxation, recreational, or "time out" activities
No, I live for my interests.

Yes it's a difficult area, especially with appearances. People often love a good scandal even when there isn't one.

I don't worry when my husband has female friends. I know that he has always had female friends, and that's find. He's got one friend who is younger than me, and has the body of a dancer (I've got the body of a potato.) I've made little joking comments to him about her assets, and he sometimes seems a little embarrassed. The thing is, I know my husband appreciates a pretty girl, but I also know that he's more interested in cars, architecture, and things like that. He's the type of guy that would say, "Gee, I love that picture of that steam engine! Too bad it's out of focus in the background, and that naked woman is standing in the way."

So, he can have whatever friends he wants, as long as they are nice to him.

physical manifestations of AS

10- flat or monotone vocal expression; limited range of inflection....symptom moderate to severe........my voice has always been very monotone..i have been told i have a very soothing voice over the telephone.i have learned to use inflection in my voice but it will always be monotoned...i have talked a lot on the phone in my career and have developed a rich, clear voice

11-difficulty with initiating and maintaining eye contact...symptom moderate to severe...........i rarely have problems now but did when i was younger...it was never severe though..i notice that i still dont make eye contact when ordering in a restaurant or at a service desk

12- difficulty recognizing others' faces (prosopagnosia)...symptom mild to moderate..............not really...sometimes i have to recollect when i haven't seen someone in a long time but never really a problem

10- flat or monotone vocal expression; limited range of inflection
Yes, I didn't think I was monotone but my mum told me otherwise. And I realise that sometimes I can be a bit monotone, especially when I'm reading something outloud.


11-difficulty with initiating and maintaining eye contact
Moderate, I can initiate it OK, but I can't really maintain it without it feeling uncomfortable. If I look into people eyes it feels like thier eyes are shooting lazars into mine.


12- difficulty recognizing others' faces (prosopagnosia)
Yes but only very mild. Sometimes I'm good at recognising people, but there are occasions when I go completely clueless.

the physical manifestations of asperger syndrome

1- strong sensory sensetivities: touch and tactile sensations, sounds, lighting and colors, odors, and taste......symptom mild to moderate
Sight: Reduced eye sight. Sensitive to bright light (sunshine, lamps, reflections of light on snow or on white paper)

Hearing: Pretty normal hearing, I think. But high pitched sounds (Oriental languages and some bird chirps) hurt my ears and echoes through my head for some time, making me dizzy and disoriented. Same for loud music. And metal utensils against some types of plate. Drilling in concrete.
I also have huge difficulties concentrating and constantly get disturbed by the slightest noise, but I don’t know if that has more to do with attention than sense of hearing.

Smell: Very sensitive to some smells, not at all or less with others, and I like some smells that most hate (like petrol).

Taste: Omg, don’t get me started. I easily tell brands of products from each other (this was actually tested when I was younger: I said that I liked one particular brand of fish balls. My mother obviously thought it was just a notion I had and bought another brand and served without letting on that it wasn’t Vesterålens. I had no idea, took a bite and declared that it wasn’t the right type. This happened a few times with different products, and she soon realised that it was for real), and although I can’t tell what has been changed I am usually the first to notice when a recipe has been changed. I’m no super taster though, I can’t taste something and list the ingredients. More often than not there are things I don’t like in the food (or smells) and eating is a problem since I am usually fed up with most kinds of food and don’t like the rest. Especially break fast foods. Dinners are a little better. A little…


Touch: Some things are icky to touch, like the uneven plates (see hearing). Tags in clothes can be very irritating. Elastic bands in pants and underwear can really gnaw on my skin. It’s not just in my mind, they leave red marks and make my skin sore.

Those are the ones I can think of right now.


2-nail biting...symptom moderate to severe
No, I have never done that.

3-unusual gait, stance, posture......symptom moderate to severe
I’ve been told that I walk very stiffly and I think that is correct. Never swinging my arms when walking. I probably have poor posture sitting, I bend my back too much.

4-clumsiness...symptom moderate to severe
Yes. I bump into things with my arms, knees and feet. And sometimes with the rest of my body as well. I tend to have some scrapes and bruises. I have never been able to throw/kick a ball and know where it would land with any degree of certainty.


5- balance difficulties.....symptom moderate to severe
Yes. I could never walk the beam in PE class. I easily fall when I have to walk on something narrow like a beam over a muddy ditch or on stepping stones across a stream. I’m also really good at slipping and falling on ice and hard-stomped snow.


6- depression....symptom moderate to severe............
No, I can’t say that I have depression. I have the normal ups and downs everyone get, and sometimes everything feels hopeless, or is boring and uninteresting, but these phases always pass quickly. No one feel great all the time.

7-bad or unusual personal hygiene.....symptom moderate to severe
I have never cared about looks.
My first 13 years was a constant struggle to avoid being thrown into the bath tub by my parents and my mother always had to snatch my favourite clothes when I was asleep to get them washed. Ever since I have showered willingly but way more seldom than normal. Have to add that as an introvert NEET I don’t go out much. I’m better at showering when I go out but nowhere near as much as other people do. I have at times used perfume to hide the fact that I should have showered but didn’t have time/couldn’t be bothered.
I often find myself wearing a T-shirt and noticing a spot, thinking I must change shirt before I go out tomorrow. The next day I forget all about, then when I’m out I notice the spot and so on.
As a child I was good at brusing my teeth, but in my teens I pretty much skipped it. The last decade I have been much better at it (after a shock message from the dentist in my late teens) but I’ve been known to skip it on nights when I feel very tired. I could be better at using tooth picks and floss.


8- sleep difficulties....symptom mild to moderate
Yes, my sleep pattern is completely messed up. I can get sleepy after being awake 2-10 hours and I can go without sleep for a couple of days without feeling sleepy. If I sleep for 3-6 hours I tend to wake up rested (if my sleep was calm and undisturbed) but if I sleep any more I end up being very tired the rest of the day and I often get head aches when sleeping too long. My sleep periods vary a lot. I can sleep at night. I can go to sleep in the morning, waking up in the afternoon, and I can go to sleep in the afternoon and wake up in the evening or around midnight, depending on when in the afternoon I went to sleep. This is not due to being a NEET, I’ve been like this since puberty.


9-low apparent sexual interest.....symptom mild to moderate
Yes, I am asexual.


10- flat or monotone vocal expression; limited range of inflection....symptom moderate to severe
No, this is one symptom I don’t have.


11-difficulty with initiating and maintaining eye contact...symptom moderate to severe
Yes, severe. I get a weird feeling in my stomach and I stiffen and lose track of what I’m about to say or what the other person says. Disoriented. I have to get away.


12- difficulty recognizing others' faces (prosopagnosia)...symptom mild to moderate
Yes. I have problems with this. For instance in the classes I have attended I have taken way longer time to be able to recognise people and tell them apart. I spent a year on high school not being able to tell 4 of the girls in my class apart if I only saw one of them. The problem is worst when someone has the same hair/skin colour. The more that sets people apart, the easier I can tell the difference. In classes I have often made do deciding who they are by the seating arrangements. Clothes would be a tell-tale sign but the bastards keep changing their clothes! I even once greeted a person coming out from my neighbour’s apartment, only to see my neighbour standing behind this guest!
Also a problem when I meet someone in a place I don’t expect to see them.

I think my voice used to be rather monotone and mumbly, and still can be if I'm nervous about the people I'm talking to, or (for some strange reason) if I'm talking into a tape recorder without a script. Part of the problem is that I can't put much animation into my voice without making some of my speech rather loud, which I often fear might be taken as rude or insensitive. But I think I've overcome it to a large extent by practice, and my singing has probably helped, though not all that long ago a couple of people said they were surprised when they heard me sing so well because they were expecting it to be lousy judging by my talking voice.

I seem to recall that my voice was often fairly animated when I was a child, before my voice broke.


Yes I still have trouble with this. When I make a concerted effort I might be able to approach normality for a while, but it tends to distract me from the content of the conversation.


I don't seem to have a lot of difficulty with this (which suggests I must be looking at people's faces a fair bit, if not into their eyes), but if the face is too "average" and lacks noticeable features, I can have trouble recognising next time I see it.

I remember when I was 18, waiting to meet a girl for our first date after having seen her only twice before, and although we had already talked to each other and even kissed briefly, every time a girl walked by who looked remotely like her, I wasn't sure that it wasn't her. But I recognised her immediately when she arrived, so maybe I was just nervous.

I often lose the plots of films when the characters' faces are too ordinary or similar, because I can't recognise them in different scenes. And often I can't easily differentiate between 2 people in real life whose faces seem similar to me, although when I see both people together I can see a lot of difference between their features.

You're getting into areas where I am a bit more neurotypical...

10 - flat or monotone vocal expression; limited range of inflection Actually I have been accused of having a very sing songy sounding speaking voice. One person in a phone conversation confided in me that folks in New England assume that a guy is gay if he has a sing songy sounding voice. I guess I should expect to get a lot of funny looks if I ever visit New England.


11 - difficulty with initiating and maintaining eye contact Initiating is easy. Maintaining is another issue. I used to feel like people could see through me when I make eye contact, but I have sense learned that most folks are not empathic. I have trouble maintaining because it is hard for me to explore my visual memory and maintiain eye contact at the same time for some weird reason.


12 - difficulty recognizing others' faces (prosopagnosia) Facial recognition is one of my strengths. My problem is name and noun recall. Most of the time I'll recognize a person, and I will remember practically everything I know about him, except his name. It really gets frustrating sometimes, but probably not as frustrating as prosopagnosia would be I expect.

Was it the taste or was it the texture?

physical manifestations of AS

13-ANXIETY.....symptom mild to moderate.....i guess i was always very anxious as a child and through adulthood....always having that feeling in your stomach you feel before making a speech to a large crowd..............it did not really interfere with my life in adulthood as it did as a child

14-verbosity...symptom mild to moderate.....so-so...i do tend to use too many words in speech and writting.though i dont think it to be excessive excessive

15- elevated voice volume during periods of stress and frustration....symptom moderate to very severe.............yes, when stresses i tend to yell a lot, same with frustrated.............as a kid, OMG, LOL..........definitely

yes, maybe mild sometimes moderate. Especially social anxiety, that's my worst one. I also get anxious when I go to people's houses, I always worry that I'm no there at the right time or the day has changed and I have to be very sure unless I go a bit awkward when I get to their door.


yep, not sure to what extent though. I can talk alot, for ages and it's nearly always intelligent stuff, I don't just chat for the sake of it.


YESS!! ! about moderatly, my voice is really loud anyway, so when I'm stressed my voice is like a yell, I'm like "stop doING THAT!! !! !"