Which AS traits annoy you the most?

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Do one of your AS traits just annoy you?? I find myself getting frustrated when...

I take things literally

I don't recognize people (mostly family members) due to face blindness

Don't know social cues

extreme sense of smell (smelling people when i go out in public)

Sensitive hearing

Socially drained

and NOT KNOWING MY FEELINGS!

What annoys me the most are sensory issues.

The social issues cause me the most grief.

But that's not a trait. It's the result of many traits.

I would have to say the inability to really process what's going on socially in real time. I usually have to take a step back to get my bearings.

Meltdowns. By far the meltdowns.

Other than that what annoys me most that is giving off the wrong nonverbal cues, and people misinterperating you because of that - things like "you are upset at me" when you're just thinking.

Not the ones that cause the most challenges or the most pain, but the things that are me dealing with myself are not nearly as frustrating to me, as others projecting things on me. And meltdowns are just bad.

Difficulty communicating my non-verbal thoughts into verbal narrative that eberryone else is used to hearing from eberryone else.

Also, similar difficulty (ackshuly even greater) processing other people's verbal narratives into concepts that I unbersmand.

- Sensitivity to noise (particularly when trying to sleep)
- Picky eater (particularly my hatred of most vegetables!)
- Inability to juggle large numbers of tasks
- Low face vision (it takes "forever" for me to commit a face to memory)

My difficult social issues cause me the most grief.

I can't make or maintain friends to save my life.

I don't like to socialize in groups at all.

You can count on me to say the wrong things in a social setting.

I don't make small talk and so have little to interact with concerning strangers.

All of it but the "special interests", though I hate that term!
I'm in high school, and all of the traits that I, and others (including teachers!), have observed and commented on make it difficult to... be in high school! I guess the sensory issues, mostly sound (fire alarm, pe whistle, screaming) and touch (people putting their hand on my shoulder and huging me and being mad when I jerk away)
social cues are big right now, too...
and meltdowns...
and teachers trying to force eye contact...
What I hate most about my Aspie-ness is my Aspie-ness!

I don't like my heightened sense of hearing so that I can hear a clock far away ticking that no one else can.

My most bothersome traits:

Obsessiveness (get stuck in an idea for several hours to several days) and lose the ability to reasonably handle other tasks

Being lonely but unable to have successful social interaction

Becomming drained and sometimes having a meltdown when around too many people

Executive dysfunction in general. Everything else is manageable at this point.

ocd,is that an aspie triat.

When I was younger it was the social traits that annoyed me the most. Now that I'm a little bit older it's the dang obsessive special interests. It makes it very hard to keep a job when you can't stop thinking about and researching your special interest.

Definitely the social awkwardness

Having intense emotions and mood swings which sometimes leads to meltdowns and becoming easily mentally/emotionally drained (esp. when interacting with other people). If I had more emotional fortitude, then my life (and presumably my family's) would be a lot easier.

Many are inconvenient, but the one I would like to get rid of is lack of noise filtering.
The world is entirely too noisy.