Aspergers symptoms you lack.

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I was never clumsy as a child and I have fantastic hand-eye coordination. I was put into remedial classes in kindergarten because I didn't color in the lines and I didn't use scissors correctly but I don't remember if I couldn't or I just decided not to.

1) Sensory issues, there extremely mild and not problematic in 99.99% of situations.
2) Gross motor problems, I used to be a dancer so Im pretty coordinated and not clumsy at all.
3) Fine motor problems, Ive always liked crafts and Im pretty good with doing things with my hands, only exception is I slam the keyboard when I type
4) Meltdowns, I've rarely had something that could quite classify as a meltdown. No meltdowns as a kid, only very rare occational crying meltdowns as an adult
5) I can read tone of voice as well as an NT can or possibly even better because I've become very reliant on it within the last couple yrs. Im very good at reading subtle non-verbals out of a tone of voice even if your not terribly expressive.

Not 100% sure it makes sense to me, although this comment does remind me of something...

How I organise my books.
My [NT] boyfriend informs me that how I do this is very weird, that 'normal' people organise their books alphabetically or by subject, where as I organise them by several other factors; shorter books at the top of the book case going down to taller books at the bottom of the book case, also hardback books at the bottom of the book case. I then try to keep all the same books by the same authors together but in an order so the larger books by the same author are together on one side and the smaller books by the same author are together on the other side. If there are a few books of the same size then they're ordered by width or subject in relation to the larger/smaller book next to it. It's complex and makes no sense to anyone else...but I can grab any book I need without looking.

I think this is an example of my organisation - it's organised, but in a very special aspie sort of way

I read about someone who organized his classical music collection by the composer's birthdate.

I used to organize some (not all) of my books first by publisher and then by publication date. I might have done a third thing - like publisher, particular line of books, date. Since these were RPGs, organizing by publication date tends to not put similar books next to each other, but it worked for me.

The size of the shelves on my bookshelf has played hell with how I organize. Only small mass market paperbacks will fit on the top shelf, and they're arranged alphabetically by author. Large trade paperbacks and hardcovers will only fit on the large bottom shelf, and I gave up trying to arrange them in any but the simplest way (same author, same subject, etc). Middle sized trade paperbacks are arranged alphabetically by author on the middle shelf. Richard Matheson's books are split between the mass market paperback shelf and the middle sized trade paperback shelf. Patricia Highsmith and Philip K. Dick are split between the middle sized trade paperback shelf and the large shelf for large trade paperbacks and hardcovers. Want a book about Dracula? The mass market paperback edition of the novel is on the top shelf, the annotated hardcover is on the bottom, and the trade paperbacks about Vlad the Impaler are on the same shelf but arranged farther away. Books of all sizes that won't fit on the shelf go in the cabinet under the TV, arranged alphabetically by author regardless of subject for simplicity's sake.

Confused?

I very definetely have problems with organisation. I don't have a problem with sarcasm and figures of speech, but I can remember when I did .
With social stuff, reading people I thought I had learned to compensate pretty well, but sometimes I wonder how much of the time I'm right.

Probably the monotone voice but than I aparently sounded like the teacher from The Wonder Years when I was a kid. I can't see what was so wrong with that. My mom said it was almost impossible to teach me to speak so I didn't sound like a robot. I didn't speak until I was four and delayed echolalia until my mid teens. I was pretty much a sterotypical poster child for AS as a kid. As an adult, I come across as a cold heart b***h but to someone who was famalair with AS and autism I couldn't fool them.