Unique AS traits you may have.

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Really?Thats cool!

Yeah, but the downside is that some kinds of noises are extremely annoying to me, and I can't sleep without earplugs.

By the way, our avatars have a similar color scheme, that's cool

I have sound sensitivity too. Some sounds are so bad I cant tolerate them. But there are other noises that bother most people, but not me, such as fingernails on a chalkboard.

Whats on your avatar?

I have a very irrational phobia to bugs, does anyone else?

It's a phoenix.

I have extreme travel anxiety, but it's a bit strange because I only have it before the actual trip. The night before I have to go someplace is the most difficult, I vomit, I can't eat anything and can't sleep, but once I'm actually on the road it gets better to the point of disappearing entirely after several hours. But those few days before a trip are hell.

It's probably not unique amoung Aspies, but today at work, someone told me what 3% of their bi-weekly paycheck was. In less than 15 seconds, I guessed correctly what they made every two weeks. Needless to say, I was stared at for 5 seconds, then asked how I did it. It was very uncomfortable.

If you're the only one who has it, it's not really an AS trait, it's one of your own unique personality traits.

When you make a sandwich, is it now officially an aspie sandwich?

Hell yeah! And I sell them in Cafe Aspie too

Point is, not everything associated with your personality could and less should be attributed to Asperger's syndrome, which is a set of symptomes associated with a different neurological structure of the brain. If you constantly add different personality traits to it, AS would turn meaningless as a definition.

I am wondering if it is Asperger related, but I am obsessed with the number 3. I always do things by three.

Sounds more like OCD to me, though some OCD traits do cross over with Asperger's.

I've always thought numbers to be colors as well---to me, 4 is blue, for example. Wonder if we saw something as kids that imprinted these things on us to a degree...

Possibly, to a degree. Research shows that A is often red, B often blue, Y often yellow. They may be the colours most often used in school when learning those letters. Alternatively, there's a theory that the "basic" letters, the ones you tend to use most (e.g. S, T, R) get assigned primary colours like red and blue, and the less frequently used letters get "weaker" colours like browns and other complex colours.

Everyone knows that U is yellow...

When I hear a person's name and see them. I think of some kind of "movement" to seems to "represent" the person's looks and their name. There is very little meaning to it. I call them "actions". I have no idea where they come from, they just pop into my head naturally. 95% of people ask "How do you remember these?" when I tell them about them. I don't really have to remember them, because every time I hear the person's name, I see the action in my head. It is very unusual.