The Opposite of Asperger's Syndrome?

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Just to be clear, I've been diagnosed with an unspecified "personality disorder", but there's been speculation within my family that it's Asperger's Syndrome. As for posters commenting on the opposite of autism, consider that, in 1944's "Autism & Asperger's Syndrome" (written by Hans Asperger & edited by Uta Frith), autism is noted to be from the Greek root "auto", meaning "self"
& is defined as "an extreme variant of male intelligence" (for those who would protest that there
are autistic/Aspergian females, keep in mind that various girls & women used to be [&, from time to time, still may be] referred to as "tomboys" &/or "just like one of the guys"). If there's an opposite of autism, it would only follow that it would have a name from the Greek (or possibly Latin) root for something counter to "self" & the accompanying implications, that it would be defined as "an extreme variant of female intelligence", that a milder form would need to be specified,
that more feminized men (think Richard Simmons) might be affected in either case & that it would likewise need to be considered a "disorder"; of course, if anyone has a problem with this logic,
then perhaps neither "extreme" should be labeled a "disorder".

i'm definitely not good at math but i love doing puzzle. sometimes math can be a fun puzzle(not when you're being graded though)
for me it's someone who always knows what's going on and can instantly adjust to a mood change in a person(especially if that person is crying) they don't make a person feel worse than they already were. they speak beautifully and can have a simple conversation with a group of people(especially strangers whom they haven't "learned" yet). they're ability to become obsessed with something is not too easy.

i could go on and on but it's din dins.

A glad handing politician with Machiavellian tendencies.

IMO, there isn't such a thing as the opposite of autism. Maybe at some point the gentics behind autism will be found and people will be discovered who have the opposite genetic deviations (like with Williams syndrome and that other condition merntioned above), but even then phenotype is not an exact representation of genotype so we can't be sure whether that would be the exact opposite.

I think there is something we didn't point out in this post.
Actually the opposite of Aspe can't be a "pathology" like down or the like because Aspe isn't that, for istance aspenger doesn't give us a particular resemplance (like many other syndromes mentioned before).
Depending on your particular spectrum you can be in very different way, for istance I have an high intellectual, "hunting", "compulsive", "perception" aspenger but I also have an high NT perception and good comunication skill (actually I've started speaking before time, at 2 years old I had a vocabulary of an adult and I started complaining how absurd is using words to talk, how better will be using sounds and sign, etc..). I'm sociophobic.

http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12c.php?p1= ... =72&p12=31

What's the opposite of Aspe then?
Well you can say NT. But saying that is saying that the opposite of blue is white because one is colored and the other is not. NT could be the opposite of every "syndrome" in that way.
Also many syndromes have aspie trait like sociophobia, strange behavior, strange perception and so on.

I can think that if you really want to make an opposite you shouldn't base it on the most "sintomatic" part of it. Basically every "different" will be sociophobic, compulsive and the like. What really distinguish Aspenger (according to me) is the tendency (not the ability because you can be not too much able to "compute" but be an Aspe) of being "mental". While NT sometimes use "brain" sometime use "heart". So if we accord in saying that the "only" thing common to all Aspe is that we "always" use brain (rational thinking) before heart, the opposite is someone who is always overwhelmed by his feeling/heart, someone highly sensible.

A so much sensible man/women will still be probably ossesive/compulsive because she/he still need perfection (but for his/her heart), he/she can still be from dumb to genius (using heart before brain doesn't mean that she/he can't do math for example) but could have problem rationalizing situations and seems less smart than he/she is for that (like sometimes we can appear for the opposite). A so sensible guy will have probably "strange" behavior, he/she will be probably vegetarian, love children and animals because he/she can't afford to hurt someone, but otherwise he can have MORE problem of us with people, because too much feeling can easly provoke melt down, being unable to see a child crying or seeing news on TV, or being easly touched by people, etc.. can make people see you under a bad perspective.

I "don't like people, don't feel them" but my "apathy" will probably hurt them less than their hypersensibility making me actually better suited to live within society than them.

P.S.
Do you know of any syndrome like that?

Actually it could be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unipolar_disorder
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_p ... y_disorder
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotionall ... y_disorder

Remember the difference between a "bad mood" because you have it and a "bad mood" because people doesn't understand you (like many Aspie could have).

I know that while I scored 39/50 on the AS test my wife scored 3 (yes THREE) ! !!

I think that's how it works!

In my opinion, the opposite of Asperger's Syndrome is Borderline Personality Disorder. How so? While aspies are socially clumsy and often manipulated by people, borderliners are the ones doing the manipulating. They have fiercely advanced social skills, enough to charm a jaded old woman into signing over her life savings. A more moderate example would be the popular guy in the office who who has HR wrapped around his finger and who everyone worships, except the person (possibly an aspie) he picked as his victim to harass. Your only hope is him quitting.

I know all these topics on Williams Syndrome are out of date, but I've never heard of Williams Syndrome before until today, when I was searching through the forum, and so it interested me. On Google I looked up the symptoms of Williams Syndrome, and this came up:-