Are there different kinds of Aspies?

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I think you described me in a nutshell.

Tim

I am the kind of person who loves to accumulate facts. My AS testing scores put me in the middle of AS and NT. I think I definitely have some of the traits. I have unusual interests and like to accumulate facts about them.

I've been creative also. Sometimes I mispeak, as I am not very artistic. I know what I like, but coming up with art is another thing. But as far as creating things and coming up with imaginative ways to combine things, etc... I certainly do.

As for outgoing, at times you might not know I have AS. There are just some ways I just don't approach people, etc... My coworkers like me and talk with me, I just don't know if I could really call them friends, etc...

I DO have the obsessions. MAN do I! Probably 90% of what I know could be traced to that. I guess my emotions are skewed like my senses. Things that would hurt others don't hurt me and vice/versa. Oh well...

Steve

I'm childlike and artistic, good at languages and crap at maths.

I love your screenname on here poopylungstuffing

I have an under obsessive type of aspies as nothing really interests me and im always feeling great boardom, i also have problems controling my anger and cant stand it when people repeat the same thing over and over again.

I am more outgoing than most aspies, but my obsessions are stronger than those of most aspies, as well.

I don't know if you could say under obsessive because of your boredom factor...I know that when I am not involved with my obsessive interests...I am as bored as a pot plant...and people around me can tell. i try like crazy to be interested in what is going on at the time but BORED BORED BORED...I think this would be typical.

Also the repeating thing...I agree...I am thinking it may be the fact that I definately do not like to be treated as dumb, stupid or thick and when people repeat themselves to me, instantly I think the reason for them to do it is their opininon of me (dumb, stupid, thick), when actual fact it is because they have forgotton that they have already told you.

Anger...I have learnt over the years to control this...I do not know if I handle anger in a good way. I seem to internalise it and almost shut down from everyone around me and go to a quiet place...whether that is physically away from people or mentally in my mind...unsure if this is healthy...I do go very very quiet and it is though people around me can tell but I am unsure how they feel about it.

I hope this helps

Last edited by Mozart on 17 Mar 2007, 5:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Judging from your earlier posts, I DOUBT yours are stronger than mine have been. They may only appear that way because yours are more specific. That is a silly thing to argue about anyway. One other spoke of being UNDER obsessed. Aren't ALL AS people supposed to have strong interests that are STRONG enough to be remarkable which, by the very etymology, means it is worthy of comment?

Steve

Yeah isn't it a core diagnostic trait?

I am eccentric, smart, lazy and funny.

you can either have low, medium or high, functioning aspergers i think

I think your reading stuff into a misunderstanding of autistic nomenclature. ALL Aspies are high functioning. I guess some aren't as smart as others, but that is true of everyone. I don't know WHERE I would even rank on such a scale. In some ways I could run circles around steel maiden, for example, and in some ways she could run circles around me. How could you rank that? I picked her only because I know some of the abilities she has that I don't.

Steve

I am not into technical stuff. I also write but I write about uncommon things and I am horrible at math. I can't do algebra, I can do simple ones like 2x+4=8 and the story problems. I can do simple math such as adding and multipling and division and subtraction. I am energetic and I like going out, I go to malls and I love doing karokee. I also love to talk and I talk a lot. I also like lot of kid stuff. I still watch kid shows and play videogames and have a few early childhood games like Teletubbies, blues Clues. I get happy meal toys from McDonalds whenever they have what I like and I have some toys but mostly what I do is computer, TV and going out. I spend most of my time looking at jobs and going out applying and looking in stores but don't buy anything. I'm hardly bored now. I even have juvinal sheets and pillow cases and blankets. I call it my inner child. No one's never had a problem with what I like and what I wear except for my boyfriend.

I am honest but I don't go around telling people negative things about them like I walk up to a fat person and tell them they're fat and they never even asked me what I think of their image.

I do read fiction, I even read some kid books like The baby Sitters club. I even buy kid chapter books in second hand stores when i see books that interest me. I buy them and read them and get rid of them.

I had troubles with school work in school because it was all hard. Only things I did on my own was Drama, and Spanish. I did chior on my own but needed help when it came to having to write a small report on a topic for a show we put on. I have troubles with organization of my thoughts so I need help of putting them together. When I write, I just write what's on my mind and then I put it together. I can copy and paste, that's why i love typing on the computer than doing it in notebooks.

I can talk to people and have conversations with them depending on what we're talking about. if it's somethign that interests me, I won't have a problem. I do fine with one or two people but when there are a bunch, it's hard to socialize. When i do join in because they are talking about soemthing that interests me, I can't stop interupting. I remember reading that on AS when I was 15 and I knew right there that was me but I thought "doesn't everyone interupt, I see it all the time." Now that I'm older I realize I think the difference is, we do it more than normal people. Everyone has some AS in them but we have a lot of it, lot more than others, it makes it a condition. I show it everyday but I don't know when I'm showing it. When I'm buy myself, it's hard to know or if I'm with one person, its hard to tell. When I'm with family, its hard to tell too.


I am also the kind of person who doesn't care what people think of me and don't let things bother me like people's opinions and all. I learned to shut off my feelings. I don't like getting upset and falling into arguements and being mad about life. Once in a while I might get aggitated of what someone thinks of something or aggrivated and will fall into an arguement.

I'm not interested in hanging out with people but I will with family or with my partner.

I also repeat words but I don't know when I'm doing it and my voice is real loud. I wasn't even aware I repeated phrases or words till my bf pointed them out to me. I have been told online a few times by few of my aspies friends that i repeat myself over and over. Even my first bf said the same.

I suck in relationships. I don't show much emotions, sure I cry and scream and yell but when my bf hugs me, he feels he is hugging a robot because he doesn't feel anything from me emotionally. I'm just still. My ex had the same problem. I appear as those Aspies on AS partners site. The NTs make them sound like jerks, as*holes, uncarring people and are lazy, self centured, and selfish. I asked.

Seems like lot of aspies lack sexual desires but not me, I'm into sex. I'm a sex craze but I don't want it all the time and I don't want to go around having sex with different men. I'm not that kind of sex crazy.

Now I'm sounding like an aspie lol.

I am not into technical stuff. I also write but I write about uncommon things and I am horrible at math. I can't do algebra, I can do simple ones like 2x+4=8 and the story problems. I can do simple math such as adding and multipling and division and subtraction. I am energetic and I like going out, I go to malls and I love doing karokee. I also love to talk and I talk a lot. I also like lot of kid stuff. I still watch kid shows and play videogames and have a few early childhood games like Teletubbies, blues Clues. I get happy meal toys from McDonalds whenever they have what I like and I have some toys but mostly what I do is computer, TV and going out. I spend most of my time looking at jobs and going out applying and looking in stores but don't buy anything. I'm hardly bored now. I even have juvinal sheets and pillow cases and blankets. I call it my inner child. No one's never had a problem with what I like and what I wear except for my boyfriend.

I am honest but I don't go around telling people negative things about them like I walk up to a fat person and tell them they're fat and they never even asked me what I think of their image.

I do read fiction, I even read some kid books like The baby Sitters club. I even buy kid chapter books in second hand stores when i see books that interest me. I buy them and read them and get rid of them.

I had troubles with school work in school because it was all hard. Only things I did on my own was Drama, and Spanish. I did chior on my own but needed help when it came to having to write a small report on a topic for a show we put on. I have troubles with organization of my thoughts so I need help of putting them together. When I write, I just write what's on my mind and then I put it together. I can copy and paste, that's why i love typing on the computer than doing it in notebooks.

I can talk to people and have conversations with them depending on what we're talking about. if it's somethign that interests me, I won't have a problem. I do fine with one or two people but when there are a bunch, it's hard to socialize. When i do join in because they are talking about soemthing that interests me, I can't stop interupting. I remember reading that on AS when I was 15 and I knew right there that was me but I thought "doesn't everyone interupt, I see it all the time." Now that I'm older I realize I think the difference is, we do it more than normal people. Everyone has some AS in them but we have a lot of it, lot more than others, it makes it a condition. I show it everyday but I don't know when I'm showing it. When I'm buy myself, it's hard to know or if I'm with one person, its hard to tell. When I'm with family, its hard to tell too.


I am also the kind of person who doesn't care what people think of me and don't let things bother me like people's opinions and all. I learned to shut off my feelings. I don't like getting upset and falling into arguements and being mad about life. Once in a while I might get aggitated of what someone thinks of something or aggrivated and will fall into an arguement.

I'm not interested in hanging out with people but I will with family or with my partner.

I also repeat words but I don't know when I'm doing it and my voice is real loud. I wasn't even aware I repeated phrases or words till my bf pointed them out to me. I have been told online a few times by few of my aspies friends that i repeat myself over and over. Even my first bf said the same.

I suck in relationships. I don't show much emotions, sure I cry and scream and yell but when my bf hugs me, he feels he is hugging a robot because he doesn't feel anything from me emotionally. I'm just still. My ex had the same problem. I appear as those Aspies on AS partners site. The NTs make them sound like jerks, as*holes, uncarring people and are lazy, self centured, and selfish. I asked.

Seems like lot of aspies lack sexual desires but not me, I'm into sex. I'm a sex craze but I don't want it all the time and I don't want to go around having sex with different men. I'm not that kind of sex crazy.

Now I'm sounding like an aspie lol.

your statement is false. all people with aspergers are not geniuses, any co morbid disorders like mental retardation of any kind can be an influence, that can altimatley affect any aspergers you might have.