Autistic behaviors/Autism

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What are your Autistic behaviors? Mine are emotional problems (very rare now days). During my research, I have saw flipping light switches on and off, below average social skills, bad eye contact, emotional episodes, not having good days, getting into trouble, laughing out loud, etc. I have been experienced for about 7 years. I was two (almost three) when I was diagnosed, after 6 months of Autistic behaviors. How many of you have improved? I have been improving every day.

Mine are:

SOME emotional problems I may blow up at relatively small things.(not too common)
Preoccupation with senseless details or small objects if I am bored.
Below average social skills(Basically I don't get some jokes, or relate to cues on time)
bad eye contact
Trouble controlling the volume of my voice
rocking/bouncing my leg, etc...
Averting with noise/light
Not responding to hot/cold
Sounding a bit arrogant(less likely now)
rambling on related events, even distantly related ones.
Non interest and activity in sports.
bringing up ancient events like they just happened, if relevant(less likely now)
daydreaming.
zoning out if I hear long meaningless stuff.
Obsessing with some topics.
A desire to learn(sadly not as thorough as it was, but it is still kind of there)

HEY, THANKS! I described myself SO well, that I came up with the PERFECT avatar! What famous "person" had most of those things? NUMBER 5!

Steve

Hmmmmm Me?
-Trouble with eye contact
-Dislike/hate of sports
-Obsessions (A few of mine are Final Fantasy games, Balto and Hair Metal music like Bon Jovi/Def Leppard/Warrant/etc)
-Easily frustrated
-Pacing about randomly when excited
-Hand flapping when upset
-Rocking
-Talking/mumbling to myself
-Having trouble reading social cues
-While having a speech, I pause a lot and look down at the podium
-Daydreaming
-Strong dislike for noise/noisy school pep rallies/assemblies
-Getting crazy and defensive when someone makes a sarcastic comment about my interests/obsessions (Usually happens over the internet. I REALLY start losing it when someone criticizes "Furries" in general)
-Clutching head, mumbling to self angrily, acting awkward to show remorse.
-Painful shyness
-Constantly worrying about past things that happened
-Lethargicness
-Becoming slaphappy over bizarre things

• Inability to pick up social cues: Sarcasm, "reading between the lines", non-verbal communication - and emotional distress when realizing there is something I'm not getting... (although this is improving with age - you can look for certain signals and memorize what they mean and how to react to them!)
• Physical awkwardness: this usually comes in the form of having such a "one-track" mind... so intent on what I'm doing that my body operates on auto-pilot and I crash into things, for example.
• Obsessions: I'm much more passionate about my current interests than I am about "being social"
• Trouble with voice modulation: People either tell me I'm too loud or too fast (or both!) when I get excited about something
• Stimming: Mostly small objects, or making shapes in the air with my feet / toes
• Sensory issues: I get a kind of sensory overload when i feel textures with my palms... I shudder, get goosebumps and can't think of anything else but that feeling. The other side of that is my skin's apparent insensitivity to pain... I always scratch / pick till I bleed and don't notice ontil I SEE blood under my nails / on my fingers / clothes. Also loud, sudden noises scare me beyond reason.
• Obsession over details: I have trouble seeing / thinking of things in their entirety, I get so trapped with the details. this applies to pretty much everything.
• Meltdowns: If I get emotionally overwhelmed and have sensory issues (someone yelling, for example...) to deal with on top of that, I lose almost all my verbal ability and have been known to freak out to the point where i can hurt myself.

My most obvious ones are my obsessive fixations, my tendency to enthusiastically ramble on-and-on about said fixations, my tendency to randomly switch topics during conversation, and my sensory issues/stimming. My Asperger's isn't characterized by severe social deficits, so those aren't as obvious as the obsessiveness and general "quirkiness."
-OddDuckNash99-

I fit the DSM IV quite well.

Does stripping down to my underwear and sitting at the computer with a Routemaster on each thigh count. You get the sensory issues and the obsessions merged, together.

I guess those can count.

Social interrelationship
Poor eye contact, but that has improved somewhat but has led to some inapropriate eye cantact as I occasionally make eye contact with people in am having no social relationship with at all.

Speech problems, I often skip over words mis-pronounce words or get often stuck for words and other people end up putting words in my mouth.

Obsessive thoughts and fixations such as the weather, thermometers or snakes.

Physical awkwardness as I have poor gross and fine motor skills as I could never learn how to play a guitar do yo yo tricks or simple skipping with a rope.

Stimming, I clamp down with my jaws and tense up and flap my hands just to name a few.

Mine:

Poor social behavior and awareness
Poor motivation to socialise
Pedantic speech
Obsessive interests
Ritualistic behavior (Almost OCD)
Very clumsy overall

They're the main ones. I guess if I broke down each one and gave how each one affects me in different ways the list would be longer than that.

I'm not sure if I have autism, but I recognize a lot of the behaviors in this thread. I can't tell if most of these traits are due to my SA, so I hope you don't mind me participating in this thread anyway.

Mine are:

Pacing back and forth, snapping fingers and tapping, humming, staring at lights, drawing things in the air with my hands and feet, slamming my knuckles together, rocking back and forth.

Super bright lights, especially the sun, depress me and I have no idea why.

I have a difficult time making facial expressions. Expressions are either non-existent or very exaggerated. I also don't realize what I'm doing is socially inappropriate until I'm yelled at for it. For example, if someone tells me one of their friends died, I might try to simulate the appropriate facial expression by gently smiling. The smiling rubs them the wrong way and they yell at me because I appear to be taking pleasure from their situation.

When I'm talking about a favorite subject, I can't take a hint that the person I'm talking to doesn't want to talk about it unless they tell me they don't. I don't understand unspoken social cues. You have to be very direct with me if you want me to know something. This is one of the reasons I can't make friends. I know a situaton like this is likely to happen so I prevent it from happening altogether by not talking at all. Only my immediate family has to deal with this.

Daydreaming excessively and zoning out in the middle of conversations.

I was a selective mute with everyone in my life except my immediate family up until I was sixteen years old. I still struggle socially and I'm currently housebound, but that's another story.

According to wikipedia, autistics prefer chatting online via e-mail or forums rather than having real-time conversations in a chatroom. The only way I can manage a decent conversation is when I have a ridiculous amount of time to think about what I'm going to say; this obviously limits me from having offline conversations and most online conversations in real-time.

Ditto.



Ditto again. A few years ago I tried to put a lot of effort into being more social. Eye contact was one of my goals to work on. But I ended up staring at them for too long, thus making both me and the customer uncomfortable.



I always considered intolerance to pain to be a good thing in most cases except when flossing. I use to scratch, pick, and bite my skin when I was younger until I bled. Nowdays I only do it if I'm in social situations, which is rare.

Yeah. I don't like the sun too much, either. I start getting headaches when I have to go outside on a sunny day.

I....don't actually know.

i find that all my ticks tend to get worse if i'm having a wave of depression.

plus, ever since having found out about AS and suspecting that i have AS... i have actually grown more slack about supressing a lot of things i do... kinda cause i at least feel there's a reason why i do em now... before, i was just scared by em and would purposefully deny myself things.

I know what you mean, Sedaka, it's similar for me.

Here's an example:
All my life, when i was out in public, I would have to make a conscious effort (such as sitting on my hands or squeezing them between my legs) to keep from picking up... for example... toothpicks on the table and arranging them into a pattern during conversation that bores me (such as my boyfriend talking to another person about other people "Oh, so what's she doing now? How's the kids?.. etc etc)
I was never able to participate beyond "Oh" and "Huh", but when trying to be "social" I sit on my hands and practice the right expressions, reactions, etc. and try to keep up.

I still do it when I want to.

The difference is that now that I realize that it may just a part of my neurological settings, I don't force myself to do it. If I force myself to do it, I'm just using up all this energy and stressing myself out for nothing. If I want to make the effort, I will.

But I shouldn't have to. I think if you always force yourself to be someone you're not or behave in a way that's unnatural to you, you're bound to get depressed eventually.

I have picking issues, too, but also sensory issues. lights bug the crap out of me, especially UV lights. SOme types of things that should hurt, don't. I hate when people touch me from behind, it makes me want to jump out of my skin. I also have psychic ability(Savant quality) anyone else suffer from that? I know a few people personally who are like that. I like to touch things, but I hate being touched, unless I am expecting it. ITs weird, I touch fabrics, hair, anything of texture. I am hyperactive, so I excercise alot. anyone else have sensory issues?