A self indulgent post but please respond

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So am I one of you..ooo?
My story (the bits and pieces I've chosen that help me form my maybe I'm an aspie opinion)
Childhood:
Big collector. Always arranging my room, keeping things clean, perfect order.. I thought my friends would enjoy organizhing my drawers with me!ha. And um, I really had trouble understanding cruelty and the exploitative tendencies of others. I was smart super diligent with school work, clumsy (my teacher gave me the nickname gracie) and yet I was very good at sports. I I only wanted to read books that had won medals. I read all the time and spent a lot of time outdoors collecting bugs and sitting in the woods. I bought beetoven tapes and read les miserables when I was 10. I would develop these intense interests in things like nutrition.

My reading abilities were pretty off the chart although I dont really know about comprehension..Id ask my parents to buy workbooks that contained material that was a grade or two ahead.. I'd freak out if I got second place (my parents never put any emphasis on winning really). I dont think I have any sensory problems i constantly twirled my hair and sat in strange positions or bit my nails. I'd pick up worms off the sidewalk and bring jars to the lake so I could pick up the bugs that were stuck in it...Everything always had to be perfect looking I would get upset if there were freckles on a doll stuff like that. I wasn't shy and I picked up on a lot of stuff in the world around me. A little actress and all.

Ive just read a lot about aspergers and some of it fits some doesn't. Perhaps it doesnt matter but I was so glad to find this forum. Anyways, just very curious about whether people who have been diagnosed have had similair sensitivities tendencies etc. because everything seems really vague to me most of the time and I need to dig dig in order to be at peace or functional sometimes. It's funny, the simplest things that I can't understand and then the most intricate subtle things I get. I'm not socially deaf but I just feel like um, ya, excuse me wrong planet.. I should have said "where are my onion rings I've been waiting for 20 minutes, ya know, this happened the last time I came here!! !"

Oh and check out the It's Jerry Time.com Thats how I found this place. this website contains some of the funniest and most intelligent animated shorts I've ever seen.


I wonder if my childhood behaviors have something to tell me about the way my mind works. What do you guys thcuink? Aspie? ..Dont worry you can only help me

Sorry about the many "I wases" and all the "always"

Welcome to WP!

Tim

I think you sound like you have analysed yourself a great deal and you have learnt to be very honest and truthful about yourself. I think this is a great quality and should be admired. Having AS doesn’t mean we are all the same it turns out, that’s one of the first myths I learnt, though I share a lot of the same feelings as you. What you write interests me and in turn you interest my by who you are.
Unfortunately being the same in many respects I know how hard it is to find someone who will take the time to get to know you better and allow you to develop and learn more about how and why you do things. That’s the reason I joined wrong planet to start with but as I say even here we are not all the same so there is no easy answer. Bottom line is I like the sound of you, you come across as being very honest and truthful with yourself which Is very rare to find in the world.