Asperger Syndrome: Now available in 6 flavours!

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How about Routine? I like to do the same things every day, at roughly the same time.

6 AM - Internet

8 AM - Breakfast

9 AM - Clubhouse

2 PM - Tea

5 PM - Supper

7 PM - Go out with my friends

10 PM - Internet

11 PM - Bed

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I can't decide between the logic type and the fantasy type. I guess I'm a little of both.

I hate that site and the magazine that goes with it - the point is obviously to sell ADD meds, not help parents understand their kids.

I just picked fantasy, without knowing I had to read some explanations.. Good thing though, I picked right I have always been that way that I set up my own plays, music and such.

One thing pisses me off though, the fact that they are saying that we do have to learn to know the difference between fantasy and real world..If you ask me that is just stupid and they make us sound dumb I have always known the difference between reality and fantasy, the real world didn't have much things to offer though Besides horses of course...

Yeah, I picked up on that too.

They're also just randomly making up a definition for OCD. I think that calls the whole site into question, this whole thing...

The article described me perfectly too as far as that part goes... "Although he appears inattentive, in reality, he has other issues that he is dealing with instead. For example, are his shoelaces tied the way he likes them? Is everything around him exactly where it belongs? How many dots are in that ceiling tile over his head? Did he ask the question that he wanted to in the right way? And so on. The list can be endless. But no matter what is on his list, it usually takes precedence over anything that is on your list."

I've often wondered if that's ocd or whether there's another name for it. And I've researched it but haven't come up with a satisfactory answer yet. There is a subtype of ocd called "pure-o" where you just have obsessive thinking patterns without the compulsive actions to go with it. I'm always obsessively thinking about whatever subject happens to be on my mind... obsessive in the sense that it's rarely what I want to be or should be thinking about (usually unrelated to what's actually going on around me) and I have very little control over it - my mind gets stuck on whatever subject it wants and I can't think about anything else. So I end up "unavailable", disconnected from the events and people around me because I'm living inside my head so much. And ocd is, by definition, disturbing or intrusive... my thoughts aren't negative or disturbing in and of themselves, just intrusive and disturbing in the sense that they eat up all my attention so I'm almost ignoring the people and things around me. I hate that. Is it ocd though? I'd love to find out if it's that or if there's some other name or explanation for it. Any thoughts anyone?

And as for this thread... I'm a combination of OCD (the way the article describes it at least), rules, and logic.

Logic, OCD/anxiety.

id say emotion but not one type in specific, i got plenty of hyper traits, and enxiety and fantasy. so cabbage

What happened to your job?

To be honest, I would rather construct my own narratives (at least centered around the AS type) than to let someone else do it for me. IMO, we can learn from the thoughts of others, but I personally try to keep them in perspective.

Cheers,

Mark

I still can't decide if I'm more of an anxiety type or a paranoid type. I asked three people who know me well for their thoughts, the two who responded said opposite things Think I'll wait for the third to get back to me, then cast my vote in the poll (at long last).

ROFLMAO!! !

I have no idea...

Mostly Logic, with some Anxiety and OCD (with much more emphasis on the O then the C) thrown in. When I was a little kid I was called "Mr. Why." "Question everything, accept nothing on blind faith and obedience" is pretty much the way I have always thought about things, which why I was always singled out for "behavior issues" and "insubordination" at school, I was always questioning people's "right" to command me around!

All of them except rules. I don't always follow other people's rules well. Just the ones I believe in. If I had to pick only one though it would be fantasy followed closely by logic tied with anxiety.