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I get this a little from my sister - she seems to feel that any issue which comes up in my life "must" relate to my possibly having Asperger's. .

Win.



Epic Win.

I know I've bumped the topic but I've found a video here with a young lady who's explained this perfectly well and is 100 percent right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItuqYNgc ... ure=relmfu

It's hard to separate my personality from my autism when looking at which foods I don't like to eat. Especially foods that I like sometimes and can't stomach at other times (usually because the texture becomes intolerable for a time).

I mostly don't care about people asking if something has to do with autism. I do think some of the questions get absurd, but I usually don't respond to those. Sometimes these things really do have something to do with it.

I've noticed them, they don't annoy me... but then again I still am not confident enough to always say "nope, nothing to do with the spectrum"... I leave them alone because while I often doubt I figure there are people here who know for sure and can put it into clearer terms than I could.

A lot of people come here for support and self discovery. What is very helpful is if when they came here for that people give cut and dry answers on the or at least on things they've read online lol... Perhaps sometimes when it annoys those who answer these questions and set the newly discovering potential cohort straight while its uncomfortable for the answerer, it ends up being helpful for the asker.

Good post, and good point. Sometimes its difficult not to fall in line with a joke though. Maybe me falling in line with a joke will make me AS? :p

This is so true. When me and my parents were first told about AS, for a few weeks after that they attributed EVERYTHING I did to autism. It peed me off big time.
"Calm down, calm down, you're getting angry because you don't understand _____".
Er, no. I understand you just fine. I'm getting angry because I'm feeling stressy today.

I can't speak for everyone but I do not connect everything I do or say with having Aspergers........it does however effect a lot of things so I won't pretend it does not. As for laziness I don't feel I am that lazy of a person but I have been accused of it when it was not the case.

It can be and that's a difference.

A lot of things can be due to autism but aren't necessarily because of autism just because an autistic person experiences them.

Refusing certain foods or having difficulty tolerating certain foods in a noticeable, abnormal manner is found in people with other disorders as well and is not limited to autism. When refusal/inability to eat certain textures or accept/tolerate slightest changes to dishes or another brand whose food tastes/feels/smells almost but not entirely the same cause such impairment that a diet is noticeable restricted (and at worst causes health issues) then it's "too severe" to still count as "normal".

Even normal people have trouble eating foods of certain textures and most normal people find that they dislike very foreign foods that they are not used to. A normal picky child should eat something and be able to eat something they normally do not like or simply cannot eat to avoid starving. Your average normal person usually will be able to eat at a restaurants and accept minor changes in their diet.

What sets this very normal experience apart from it being a result of having autism is the frequency and intensity of it. An autistic child and adult may not do the same and in a worst case scenario would risk or be forced to risk starvation. There are even autistic people/children who literally refuse anything but one drink of a certain brand/made a certain way and one kind of food.

Disorders or disabilities such as cognitive impairment ("mental retardation"), impairments of motor movement and autism are extremes and slight differences of deviations found in average "normal" people. What makes a lot of symptoms of several disorders "symptoms" is that a behaviour is occurring "too often and therefore causes impairment", a weakness is "too big and therefore impairing", a difference is "too striking and therefore impairing"- so on.

That's all the magical difference there is to many symptoms. (I say "magical" because some people seem to think autism and other disorders are caused by some "out-of-nowhere" and totally inhumane "reason" which is why they think that they cannot ever possibly relate to a symptom or behaviour caused by autism because it "never happens in normal people".)

I think the tendency to get annoyed when people post things that you don't agree with, or discuss things that don't interest you, is definitely a trait of AS

Like I've said before, ASD traits aren't just unique to Autism, they are human traits. A lot of people experience these traits in childhood, often grow out of them or may continue one or two throughout their entire life but will/should not affect their day-to-day living. But certain people have a lot of these traits, often taken to the extreme, which can easily be defined and grouped together which creates an ASD, and human traits taken to an extreme can make a lot of difference in the person's thinking and behaviour, causing developmental delays or just visible differences, which means the person will probably require support throughout life, or takes more time to learn to cope with normal day-to-day things a bit more.

This best describes me anyway.

I agree with most of this. ASD traits are just human traits which are more concentrated, and people can have these traits without necessarily being on the spectrum. But I'd disagree that a diagnosis means you'll "probably require support throughout life" or that coping with "normal day-to-day" things is harder. It's true for some of us, certainly, but not all of us. A lot of people on the spectrum can live independently and happily.

Yes, you're right, but what I meant was generally Aspies are always going to have some sort of difficulty with something what most NTs take for graunted. I'm a high-functioning Aspie, and I am able to do things anyone else can do, but I do need some support in looking for work because there are a few barriers and so things are still limited. Like I can work, but I will need to work somewhere where I don't have to interact with the public because it makes me anxious. I'd be OK if I was doing something like stacking shelves in a supermarket and a customer came upto me to ask where something was and I can easily tell them, but being in a position where I got to interact with customers all day and having to impress them and deal with them and being expected to also make conversation will tire me out emotionally and just the thought of it makes me feel anxious because I'm not the chatty type, and I fear that customers will pick up on that, consider me odd, and might even take advantage of me by demanding to get something cheap or even free, because I know I will give in because I find it hard to argue with people I don't know. That is a social type I think I will always struggle with and will cause problems throughout my life. So that is why I need extra help finding work, because these support workers can help find the job what will suit me best. So I can work, but I do need some support, and although I am good at hiding my AS, the employer still needs to be aware of the AS in case tasks come up what I may not understand or be slow with, and I do have some learning difficulties aswell as AS (unfortunately I'm not a clever Aspie, my IQ is slightly underaverage).

I think not everything here that gets posted is because they think it has to do with Asperger's. They may be posting just to see if other aspies do it too, not because they think it's an aspie thing.