Is Aspergers your special interest?

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Not really, but I do have a huge thing for disabilities, including autism. I'm always writing disabled/autistic characters in my stories. It's become a pretty huge habit for me, to the point where I can't write very many NT characters unless they are supporting ones.

I have quite unique special interest in AS and similar conditions. It is somewhat profound and original. I think that atypicality of my AS may be the source of it - I can doubt if I have pervasive developmental disorder or not. Many cases of AS are deeply interesting to me. Bright Aspies are more interesting. I make own classifications of AS and similar condtions.

I think that the term "NVLD" is misleading and creates confusion - I think that it has to be abolish due to doubts which it cause. "NVLD" has to be just visual-spatial-motor developmental disorder, not something with Aspergian phenotype. NVLD just diminish your visual-spatial skills and make you clumsy, but not gives more serious social ineptitude and "weirdness". NVLD may often be a symptom of a PDD. Something known as "NVLD" is a pervasive developmental difference. I think that "NVLD-looking" forms of AS and PDD have other type of brain and may have other etiology than "classic", "robotic" like forms of AS and autism.

In my case there appears to be something pathological in my "mania" about aspieness. But it does not exclude having a talent in the area of psychology. I was diagnosed with AS myself, so I can have other point of view than people who are more "neurotypical". I "love" to write posts about it, to write on AS forums... I do not have this interest for money. It may be very pleasant, but I think that I may have too big interest in it, which may lead to waste of time and generate excitations leading to stims etc.

No it isn't; not even a little bit.

It was for about 2 months after my diagnoses but after I ran out of things to look up on the internet it slowly subsided.

Autism is one of my special interests! And I use it productively 'cause my job is working with autistic kids!

Wrong Planet is my special interest at the moment. >_>

Asperger's and ASDs in general is one of my special interests. It's been that way since I've found out that I'm on the spectrum shortly after my 15th Birthday and again when I've read about AS in my local paper for the first time at the age of 20.

I'm still interested in learning more, but not so much as it used to be a special interest a year and a half or two ago. I read a few books, tons of websites, talked about it far too much… which had to be pointed out to me by friends. I realized they weren't interested in that topic dominating conversation and made my best effort to switch up to something they were into. Anyways, it definitely was a special interest and I read more than 10,000 pages about it between books, internet, forums, articles etc - obsessively learning everything I could about it.

Fortunately for me I figured out what was exacerbating symptoms and how to treat it. I've since managed to drastically reduce symptoms, including obsessively learning/talking about AS.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

My interest about AS may appear as "crankiness". It can be excitating and be an obstacle in school due to its obsessiveness.

Not especially...although I do enjoy reading some of the posts about other peoples lives with autism because it is something I relate to at the end of the day, when I get home from the mad house (aka work).

It is one of my special interests, though it tends to specialise into the politics of autism and the reasons for the relative voicelessness of people on the spectrum.


In 'postmodern' terminology, I am acutely interested in studying the "narratives" and "dominant discourse" on autism, who is in primary control of these, who determines who is heard and who is not heard, where the primary influences on how autism is perceived, understood and manipulated come from, whose self-interests are served, how that is perpetuated and consolidated, and whose interests are not served, how and why not.

This branch alone is a huge field.

Another branch that I am profoundly interested in is the ignoring of seniors on the spectrum, their particular needs and especially the need to recognise this group instead of deleting them out of the dominant narratives. I am experienced in drafting, advocating for and making policy into law, so I hope to have some influence at a local level in 2015, that is my designated project for the year.

I am still very interested in AS and similar conditions. I think that "NLD" and AS are examples of different sorts of the same conditions ("acoria") even when they are not related etiologically and have different "brain wiring". For me "NLDers" who have social issues (such as poor eye contact, inadequate facial expressions and gestures) might call themselves "Aspies" if they want it. Social and emotional issues are most important parts of "aspieness", when combined with obsessiveness, they are even more "aspieish". The word "Aspie" is so cute for me... Deficits of theory of mind and central coherence, visual thinking, marked sensory issues are definately not necessary for me to be an Aspie. AS has code F84.5 in ICD-10, it is separated from childhood autism (F84.0) and atypical autism (F84.1) in it, so "Aspieness" may be not related with "classic autism" at all for me.

Yes. ASD has been one of my special interests since I was diagnosed two years ago.