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Six can include dipping of your head when you walk, i.e., looking at the ground; trouble with handwriting, etcetera. I meet 6 for I have trouble with holding things in my hands; I always drop things for I am unable to tell how much pressure to apply before I break the glass. Asperger's children had motor difficulties; Kanner's didn't.

Here's Professor Attwood's personal criteria (he uses Gillberg's however):

WOW, how is that lack of a motor skill? That describes ME also, but I CAN lift my head up.

Welcome to WP.

I know how that is. I used to hate it up until about age 14, but I later became fond of the attention it gave me. Now I'm again trying to be normal in my interaction with others, and as in the past, without success.



I used to love memorizing those when I was 5-6 years old. Since I had asthma then, I had to sit out during physical education classes and I would often recite routes to various places to a teacher who would sit with me.



Me too.



I had the same problem with bullying, and I hated it.


You also probably know what it is like to have had no long-term friends through grade school and to be an outcast in middle school, or to have people refer to you as a freak, or call you an 'it' instead of a 'he' or a 'she'.



I look at the ground when I walk for multiple reasons: sunlight doesn't hurt my eyes as much when it is very sunny out(when I blink I can see red, but this may be normal), so I don't trip over things in front of me, and so it's easier for me to think.

I have moderate difficulty with handwriting and when I was in special education classes in grade school this was one area that I remember receiving a lot of assistance on. Unless I write very slowly, my handwriting is usually only legable to myself without taking a lot of time for someone to read it. This was somewhat detrimental to me on college exams and homework(I'd never take the extra effort and time to re-write it, as it would have taken an hour or more each night). However, I have absolutely no problems drawing things or with art and I excel in that area, probably because I spent many many hours as a child practicing it.

I'm clumsy when folding things such as paper to make cards or cutting with scissors. I usually never get them even.

I still can't catch, and my first instinct when something is thrown towards me is to duck or move out of the way. I learned how to properly throw at age 17, but I can't replicate that now and would have to practice again and re-learn it.

When trying to crack an egg to cook it, more than half the time I completely crack the shell and break the yolk. I have a poor sense of how much pressure to apply in this regard.

This thread seems to be doing a lot of business.

I've always walked with my head dipped, that's if I'm not looking left or right (or even behind me).

Back at school, in our Physical Education classes I could never get more than three feet up a rope climb, I never liked using the jungle gym and I could never slide down the fireman's escape pole, I always lagged along in last place so the other kids wouldn't see me struggle, and my teacher would let me skip ahead. But catching a ball or kicking a soccer ball was never really a problem, I was never very good at either but I never stood out.

I've never liked cracking eggs. If I'm using a metal pot I'm ok if I pay close attention to what I'm doing, but using a plastic bowl or a counter top ends in disaster, every time.



Well, I had a few friends in high school but sometimes I would just get ignored by them, and there were some classes in high school where I wouldn't get spoken to by anyone, those classes dragged on forever, but I always got referred to as "he"... or "antisocial".

No idea (I only read it in a book; I'll try and find a link); I assume it may be due to difficulties with balance, I know people with certain neurological disorders look at the ground to help with their walking/gait abnormalities. I look at the ground, but I do it for I hate looking up and seeing people around me, I don't look at the ground otherwise (like in the house).

I suppose if a child doesn't answer why they look at the ground, and they're shown to have problems with balance; it points to such.

I know in the DSM-IV-TR it says that motor problems are common in AS, but they're not required; personally, I like how it's not in the DSM-IV-TR criteria itself.

I'll post the DSM-IV-TR criteria too (they say it's not going to change much in V as the latest additions to IV are there to bridge the gap between IV and V):

For what it is worth, I never disputed that a lack of coordination was likely, etc... As for not answering the question of why, that doesn't make things worse. Anyway, I don't have any noticable problem with balance.

I always thought it was odd that I look down so, etc..., because I knew that many with mental problems did. I never felt too bad, because I am a loner anyway, and if anyone talks to me a few seconds they will figure I am AT LEAST normal.

Still, it is unusual enough that some emulate it as a joke, or point it out.

Well, I took the aspie test at www.rdos.net and this is how I went:

Your Aspie score: 136 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 65 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

But directly under it, in the boxes, I got this:

Asperger/HFA/PDD 145 You very likely will be able to receive the diagnosis