Can Aspies be outgoing?

Post Reply New Topic

I'm quite outgoing, I go to gigs and social events and chat to old and new friends quite a lot.

Aspies can be outgoing even though thay have diffucultys socalising.

just like dyslexics could proberly spell a word even though they can't read or write it easyly.

I can be, but I am selective as to where I choose to be outgoing.

I used to be more outgoing. I still am, to a degree. But years of analyzing how sh***y I do socially, has made me more reclusive. thats the only thing I hate about aspergers.

Depends upon my level of intoxication....


no..um...i guess I would be concidered outgoing to a degree....I have a very social lifestyle...sorta...(or did)...running arts and performance venue and all.....

I knew a guy at work who I'm certain has AS (shows all the traits/tics) but is very outgoing. Problem is that when I tried to speak to him, there was like an 'invisible wall' there that told me something was off about him, that his assertiveness was a 'learned' behavior that he didn't pull off very well. He was constantly overdoing it, and when he talked he sounded like he was reading from some kind of internal script. Even though he was extremely outgoing, he was too much so, and tended to blurt things out. In the end everyone thought he was so weird that the bosses finally let him go. Apparently he didn't read the employee handbook on certain phrases that could be construed as sexual harassment because what finally tore it for him was when he told my boss that she had great legs. I knew that he meant it as an honest compliment, but she didn't see it that way. He was gone a few days later.