How bad is your Aspergers?

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Yeah, I mean I've only ever felt this way. But, considering no one ever noticed and I survived this long, I chose mild.

Social Interaction - moderate

Language Issues (including aphasias, literalness and problems with metaphor) - no

Sensory Issues - mild to moderate

Obsessions - severe, SEVERE, S E V E R E

Need for Routine/Predictability/Calm - moderate

Executive Dysfunction - moderate

Coordination Issues - mild

*If* I have it, then it's mild, overall. Comorbids mild too, except CAPD which is more moderate.

I don't know.

My on-line Aspie test scores were moderate, but I chose mild because I've had a reasonably successful life – Uni, work, marriage, children. However, I don't know if that's because I'm a mild case or because I've found ways to avoid or deal with the issues that I have.

I suspect my sensory problems are moderate to severe though.

I always thought I was relatively "high functioning" until I met other aspies & auties a few weeks ago. Then I realised that my social difficulties are actually very obvious compared to some of the other people I met. I cope better with changes to routine that other people seem to. I still get anxious, but I have learned to let things 'wash over me' when I am forced to change my plans. I have mild auditory and olfactory processing issues, but moderate visual processing issues - in new places I feel like a blind person, and need help with moving around. I can be quite clumsy, but I think that some of this is caused by my visual processing issues. I need a lot of 'down time' to myself, to relax and recover from being with people.

I would say my AS is moderate, because it affects me in a lot of ways, but I am still able to hold down a job and a marriage.

Social Intergration: Mild

Language Issues: Mild/Moderate

Sensory Issues: No

Obsessions: Beyond severe to the point that you can see them all the way from Central London. Yes, they still exist on two
shortened Routes. Ding! Ding!

Need for Routine: Moderate

Executive Dysfunction: Severe

Coordination Issues: Severe

I don't know how to answer because I have never heard of mild, moderate or severe definitions of Aspergers. Anyone mind explaining this difference? I thought no two of us were alike? I am fairly good for short periods at faking it with NT's. I work, live alone and can drive. But I get lost easy and my place is a mess. I couldn't give proper eye contact if my life depended on it. If I try to force myself to look at someone I have no recollection of what they said to me. I have face blindness and have sit for a hour with a friend sitting next to me before I realized I knew the woman. Yeah that was embarrassing. I'm clumsy and walk into walls, my body language includes flailing my arms in the air which scared the daylights out of my deaf neighbors. Still have no idea what I could have said in sign language. So does that make me mild or moderate? I'm probably not severe.

I really have no idea where I rate. I might be one of the ones who has given the impression that they are HFA, but that is only because you can't see my nervous tics, my uncoordinated movements, or my inability to look anywhere but at a floor when in the company of others, and you haven't heard my slow and deliberate speech habits. You also have not seen my not-so-crowded resume and my vast array of non-existent friends, nor have you checked out my spotty academic record.

Mine is mild, I'm only on the border of having it. Which means I can pass myself off as an NT when I need to. But when I'm stressed or upset this tends to come undone and my aspieness comes out. Which the people around me can't understand because they don't know where it came from. Sometimes I feel like I don't fit in either group, the aspies or the NTs. Which gets me really depressed.

I think it depends on how much it affects your life, not on how severe each trait is. The same person placed in a different context might be higher or lower functioning.

Don't worry about it... an eccentric NT or mild Aspie can fit right in with any group of Aspies. You know what it's like to be different, and you accept people who are different, then that's all that you need to understand people with more pronounced AS. All the friends I've had fit into the "eccentric NT" description, though if you define "NT" literally rather than "not on the spectrum", then none of my friends have been neurotypical.

Anyway, like I said, don't worry about it. Being on the border like that, you may even end up being an "interpreter"...

I was going to say mild, but then I decided if your AS can be bad enough at times to make you unhappy, it is worse then you think.

I can pass myself as an NT, but the truth always come out, and it makes me tired trying to be the same as others. Also, my AS is more of a disorder to me than a "lifestyle" as people with mild AS would put it.

In the past I have had Obsessive compulsive disorders, and If I got rid of my AS, I would be the same person, just without the extra complications that I don't want anyway.

I have exactly the same problem. People that don't know me really well would not think for a minute I had it. If I did something weird, they'd be like, oh, whats gotten into her?

I don't fit in anywhere. Aspies annoy me, and NTs are not accepting.

That feeling makes me feel guilty sometimes.

I'm really not sure where i'd class myself, in online tests, i usually score towards the higher end. But i've never seen any doctors or seem to have any of the problems with depression etc. that people with AS are supposed to be prone to. In myself i am pretty happy and content.....but i do recognise that my social life and my routines etc are pretty limited. I find socialising both difficult and tiring, i spend a lot of time on my obsessions and i have reasonably pronounced sensory issues, as well as clumsiness etc.

Anyway, i put moderate, though i would probably have preffered to pick somewhere between mild and moderate.

I voted mild. But it really goes up and down. When I was younger it was a lot worse. Sometimes I wonder if I really even have a problem, but other times I know I do actually have a problem. I'm trying to learn to live the best way with it and I'm trying to find solutions to matters that come up and may come up again.

Only recently I realised that I'm living under constant stress unless I'm stimming (looking for information about my interest on the internet) or sleeping. I feel like a blind bird trying not to fly against windows and other obstacles. It seems best to sit where you are, but that isn't possible so I have to go, blindfolded and making sure not to look like I'm blindfolded.

I feel that a lot of stress is coming from that matter: my life, as a blind bird pretending not to be blind, is a bluffpoker game in which I try not to lie, be myself as much as I can, though sometimes I don't even know what my 'self' is.

All in all I think I'm mildly affected, because I succeed in this game well enough to be able to continue. Feeling happy about it is another thing.

I've had some thoughts about it now. I think I was severe earlier on when I was very young say 2 or 3. But it's grown to moderate over the years. I'm probably moderate/mild. But I voted moderate.