my austism and symptoms question.

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hello, I am an Aspie, but I have some question's I am wondering about myself. I am ADD an bipolar as well.

I do this thing called flapping my hands, my doctor says that usually lower functioning autism does it. I talk alot at work sometime non-stop/ manic. I try to be very socialble, I like to ask people for hugs ALOT. my family says that is very inappropriate in the workplace. I also get emotionally attached to people at work wether they are friends or aquatences, in my head I consider everybody I talk to a friend. I've gotten upset and stressed or sad about something or someone quitting and i cry. they say it is inapropriate for the workplace. i consider people at work like a family away from home. I sometimes call certain co-workers for example papa Frank, mother Karen, Uncle Ricky, aunt Pam. these are my nicknames for some co-workers, I like to learn names and give people nicknames so I can remember them and have fun.
I tend to laugh at random things, at home i pace alot, make random sounds and run around the house doing random silly sounding sounds. I talk to myself alot too, at work and home. sometimes I'll blurt a random sound when I think of an awkward situation or moment from the past. sometime when get excited during a movie on tv, I run around the house yelling whowwwww or wheeeeeeee!! !

My question is why the heck do I do these things? They say I am Apergers Syndrome, I wonder if it is possible to be partial lower functioning/ Aspergers both?

Oh yes. It's possible all right.

The thing that distinguishes aspergers, in my opinion, disconnects the infant us from the world around us, or at least from the people who naturally think that they are the world around us. This causes stress and confusion, and sets us on a path-dependent, but generally far from normal, track to adulthood. Extravagant gestures, meltdowns, all the rest of it can be symptoms of associated genetic defect or can be attempts to fill the gaps where, some part of us knows, the world ought to be.

Asperger's is just a label. There is an entire range of functioning that falls under that particular categorization. Strictly speaking, as long as your language acqusition and usage is age appropriate, you can have Asperger's and be essentially non-functional in the "real world". It is sloppy when a professional automatically labels you with Asperger's simply because you are high functioning. There is nothing in the diagnostic criteria that differentiates Asperger's from "classic" autism based on severity of symptoms. The difference is the particular symptoms on display.