Has anyone here with Aspergers had Covid ?

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I am just interested to know.

Yes, last September.

How was it for you and the symptoms you had ?

I was very tired and slept for two days straight, I had a fever and body aches and chills, felt like I had a cold, I had a bad headache and coughs and a runny nose.

So for me it just felt like I had a very bad cold and a fever.

I had COVID in March.

I had a 3-week flu. Chills. Low fever at times. Pins and needles at times. Slight weakness, not enough to stay in bed. Cough mostly the first week.

No lost of sense of taste. No shortness of breath.

Took another 2 weeks to fully recover.

I lost 25 pounds after COVID through exercise.

Not yet.

It worried me a little when they've said that people with learning disabilities and difficulties like Down syndrome and didn't specify Autism are more likely suffer worse from the virus than other people and think it was an immediate death sentence. But someone said to me that the reasons for them suffering worse and dying is because many of them have other underlying health conditions like obesity problems and low functioning immune systems.

Autism is a neurological disorder, and doesn't typically affect us physically or make us any more vulnerable to dying from diseases*. Downs syndrome people usually have physical conditions as well like heart defects, and can have shortened life spans. If autism did make us vulnerable to COVID then we would have got a letter from the NHS saying that we must self-isolate because we have autism.

* All autism sites mention that people with autism are "more likely" to suffer health conditions such as asthma or heart defects but it's not really true. People just like to connect their autism to everything, rather than just admitting that they probably would have had those physical conditions without autism too.

Not yet. I also hope that I never get it.

i would think i would at least know someone who's had it since i work in essential service.

I believe I had it almost exactly a year ago. Long before testing was available. Classic symptoms, exactly 4 days incubation since exposure, I ran a fever, had runny nose and sore eyes with discharge, then sore throat, coughing/ respiratory lungs congested with still runny nose, runny nose and sore throat took about 10 days from start to stop, took about 3 weeks for the cough to clear and go away. I got it while I was visiting a dietitian in her hospital office. She had been coughing and wiping her nose for days, she told me, but not to worry, it was just a cold. She even went out of her office to cough since the room was so small and I sat directly across from her . No masks back then.. I thought to myself what a load of germs must be coating her desk, doors, drawer handles, etc etc...
This was when Covid awareness was growing and about 3 to 4 weeks before everything in our state got shut down.
It was like a nasty cold. No tests to confirm it and after a year, there may not be traceable antibodies either, plus testing costs money and most tests are only 60 percent reliable (antibody tests). I believe I had it, we will see what the future brings. (PS my spouse got it too, 4 days after I started showing symptoms).