How Bad Is Your AS?

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Offically diagnosed as the highest fuctioning, horray for me! I'm different!! !

And mentally unstable and phychotic...

Mine seems to have calmed down, over the past four months. I have more special interests, so I'm not just talking about one thing, all the time. I also have a social life, and I'm a part of a trio and the three of us hop around town, every evening. That social life will likely be on hold, until my best friend comes back from vacation, but I still have that social life, 98% of the time. However, I need to wear disposable underwear, due to the type of problem that they don't advertize on TV. That doesn't bother me, though.

Mine isn't as bad as it could be - I do have a job (craptacular as it may be), and a social life of sorts - but I have never really been able to make lasting connections with people, whether socially, romantically, or whatever. I can make friends, but I've never been able to really keep lines of communication open once they slip outside of my field of vision, so to speak. And there are times when I feel like retreating back into my shell for good and cutting myself off from the world completely, but I haven't done that properly at this point.

My obsessions are an expensive habit (action figures and comics aren't cheap these days), but I enjoy having them, despite the amount of space they take up.

It doesn't bother me that much. I just wish I wasn't so shy around people.

I wish it didn't make me anti-social.

I remember getting 6 on the scale 1 to 10.

Mine isn't as bad as it could be.

Yet to actually meet anybody else with AS in reality, so I don't have a great deal to compare mine to. I certainly wouldn't say it was 'weak' AS, but nor would I say it was 'strong'. Somewhere in the middle really, could be better, could be worse.

Mine is like BAD. Scary...

Mine is a middle of the range autistic. As a child I was the typical autistic kid that was very aloof and had extreme fixations on one think like shoes or cars. I was very quiet most of the time but the moments I was not so quiet I having a serious tantrum complete with major bouts of self injurous bahaviour such as banging my head to such a degree I had to be to emergency at the hospital to be stitched up and have overnight observation. .

*thinks...* Oh. Mine is so bad that I feel no remorse or symphany.

It took my doctors ages to diagnose me, either because of their 'ethical reasons' (e.g not wanting to put a label on me...) or because they couldn't agree what was wrong with me. I don't really mind my AS, even though it is fairly bad, but I wish I didn't have the sensory problems which are commonly associated with AS. If I had a choice, I would rather get rid of my Tourette syndrome than my AS, because at least people with AS don't yell things out or do really stupid things!

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

I saw that Tourette syndrome on TV! Creepy...

I'm not really creepy! My support tutor thinks my twitches are sweet! I am not one of those 'loud mouth' types you see on the TV! Mwa ha ha!

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

Good. But loud is fun.

I can be loud when I want to be. My mum always gets mad that I shout when I am standing right next to her!

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )