Autistic/Aspie Stereotypes You Don't Display?

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I always thought those were the signs of a future serial killer.

I was going to give almost the exact same answer as you ... these are the two things about me that don't entirely fit the stereotype and a big part of the reason why I think I've been able to assimilate into the real world with reasonable success. The thing you said about your athletic skills is so much like me in so many ways. I was the top seed on my high school tennis team in my senior year and I could get into a zone shooting a basketball where I could nail 3-pointers all day long. And then I'd trip and fall down on my way off the court. It always seemed the second I relaxed from an athletic activity, I turned into a klutz for just long enough to embarrass myself.

Sarcasm? Oh yeah. I'm the king of that ... to the point of overdoing it actually.

I'm not the most coordinated person, but I'm actually quite good at sports, especially when I work at it. I used to run and I was very fast, I even did a mile in under 6 minutes once. I also played baseball and was good at most of the skills required. The hardest thing for me, oddly, was throwing accurately, which is easy for most people but I worked on it for over a year and still I only made good throws maybe 70-80% of the time, which is not very good. The other hard thing for me was hitting a fastball because I have a slow reaction time. Fortunately I was good at hitting curveballs and change-ups because they are slower, but most pitchers in high school throw a lot of fastballs.

Anyways, my athletic ability is the big one. I also think my interests are things non-aspies can relate to a bit better than most aspie interests.

Heh.

For the record, I have much in common with the ADHD-I diagnosis, although my DX is officially Asperger's.

One of my main problems with math, besides my terrible short-term memory, is I have an extremely non-linear thought-process and I don't do as well in subjects where I'm confined by a lot of rules (which math has in spades). There also seems to be a divide between people who can grasp abstractions as opposed to people who only want to deal with concrete information.

The main difference I've noted between math/science nerds and artistic geeks is the former generally tends to prefer answering questions where there is only one "correct" answer, and the latter are content to contemplate questions that have many possible answers.

Well yeah, there is always the possibility, but you really can't go around thinking about the possibility, as it that type of thought pattern changes the way people behave. Also its impossible for more than one person to be correct about Solipism due to the definition.

As for non-solipsistic neologisms, I never use them in conversation, but I use them in my head when I'm thinking about an abstract idea, and I need a word to refer things that belong to the idea by, and the words I use are random and make no logical sense, they are just temporary names for concepts, such as I assigned the word "agora" to an operation with the property that addition is its iteration, and "aimeda function" for the function whose its derivative is its inverse and passes through (1,1). Its not just for mathematical concepts, its for any abstract concepts I don't have names for and I think about. Does this count as creating neologisms?

Here are some traits I DO NOT display:
Rocking, flapping, twitching, and other unusual physical movements.
I am not into sci-fi, fiction, or fantasy novels, such as Harry Potter and Twilight.
I am definitely not a math/science genius.
I have an average IQ, most people with AS have above-average IQs.
I understand empathy and sympathy pretty well.

I am not goth.
I don't have any unusual movements.
I get sarcasm (sometimes)
I get actual jokes, as opposed to "jokes" (stuff people say that they claim is a joke when it seems like it's not)
I try to empathize and sympathize.
I actually have friends! (although one is autistic)
I don't hate loud noise.
I actually use expression in my voice, to the point I'm very good at drama!

~ I can normally understand sarcasm. I do tend to ask if someone is being sarcastic or not to make sure though.
~ I'm not very intelligent, I got around 140 IQ which isn't that great compared to many on here i'm sure
~ I'm not very imaginative or creative. Hence my amazing username
~ I don't read fiction at all, hate sci-fi, don't like anime, etc.
~ I don't really have an intense narrow subject i obsess over. I study different psychological disorders quite a lot, and i also study parapsychology, I wouldn't call them obsessive though, i spend maybe 2-4 hours most days researching.

I am a lifelong athlete, which conflicts with the dyspraxia 'stereotype' - but I can be quite uncoordinated when not exercising, such as dropping things and losing my balance.

1. I'm not fat.
2. I don't use my Aspergers to get away with anything.
3. I don't tell every person on the planet about it.
4. I am not socially immature. In fact, I dislike immaturity a lot.
5. I do not pass every single test with a 100% every time. Who am I? Superman?

2. I can't do maths
8. I can use sarcasm, similes and metaphors (do not always pick up when another person uses them)
5. I cried when my Granny died (too much empathy )
3. I have a good sense of humour.

Did anyone notice what I did in this post?

I never use my AS as an excuse yet my dad thinks I do!
I hate maths and am terrible at it
I have terrible grades
I don't listen to underground metal (trust me, that is a stereotype)
I'm not that good at reading
I don't really have meltdowns (like, if I'm in a massive crowd of people I only freak out inside)

Obviously, I am not a male. But the sterotype that really makes my blood run cold is the one where we are all supposedly geniuses at math. My life would have been so much easier if that one applied to me. Everytime someone brings it up, I want to strangle them.

I am not a genius in Maths but I am in the intellectually gifted category (as measured by IQ, which will no doubt inflame some here).

I always found Maths easy - but only studied as far as Bachelor degree level and then only as a 'minor' to my science major.

I have absolutely no computer/programming talent and even less interest in it.
- I don't get upset hearing Autistic people talk about their programming/computing skills

Whilst I do enjoy being able to do mental arithmetic with ease, I wouldn't say my life has been made easier for it, as I do not work as a mathematician, physicist or engineer.

Last edited by Blindspot149 on 13 Oct 2011, 9:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.

i dont understand why most people think people wiith as dont have imagination or dont have any feelings. where does that come from

Oftentimes, sociopaths are misdiagnosed as aspies. Your GP, however, clearly has no clue what he's talking about.


That's actually a very impressive IQ. Although, if you ask me, IQ testing is complete BS. A person could take an IQ test one day and then get a completely different result taking it the next day. As for me, my answers were apparently too "out-of-the-box" when I took the test as a child.