Symptoms of Asppergers (my little quirks)

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1. Listen to the same song that I like (may find it on youtube.com over and over and over again) Could be 30 times.
2. Get involved in something that puts me in a trance (computer stuff, tv, driving) for hours on end. I can drive 12 hours straight on the interstate and it not even phase me (other people get tired). I should be a truck driver.
3. Chewing on straws or pen tops
4. Mindblindness - I think other people don't see things about me (bad grooming, scratching crotch in public) when they do if I think really hard about it.
5. Accidently hit a door with my shoulder when walking.
6. One a new stimuli (baby crying, tv turned on) when 1 or 2 other things are going on at the same time, I want to explode and yell in anger. (I know guys I need to be careful with this one around the baby).
7. Check email a 1,000 times day
8. Don't use soap on body when showering because I can't smell myself. Go weeks without brushing teeth. Ew, I know.
9. Wear the same pair of pants for a week straight even if they are stained. I wore a pair of karate pants to college for a symester straight. Washed them maybe every other week. At the time didn't think anyone noticed and they looked cool, but now I realize poeple must have been laughing their asses off. One to class with my shirt on backwards by accident. Someone pointed it out and asked me if it was the new style. I was so embarrased.
10. Have a hard time saying people's names.
11. Trolling. Pick on people to start fights on the internet.
12. Take forever to change lanes until the last minute. I don't gradually turn into a lane, I quickly do it. Family have pointed it out how odd it is. I guess it is my tendency to procrastinate and to get things done with and complete.
13. Use to eat one thing at a time. For example I would completely eat the hamburger before going to the fries. I don't do that anymore. At the cafeteria I would also rotate my plate so the side of the plate the food was on would be near me. People thought this was wierd.
14. Horrible handwriting. I would right several letters and number from bottom up. I right my 8s backwards. I write my 7s and 5s in one motion not lifting my hand (efficient huh?) My sentences and words would look enormous on paper. Literally my address on a card would be 4 inches tall.
15. I also have a bad tendency to read from the bottom up on lists etc.
16. Get pissed off when someone breaks a rule, even though I'll break the same rule
17. been called dry
18. ultra conservative (especially with money)
19. love making is too complicated with too many variables. I can't concentrate on my hands, body, lips, all at the same time. Caught myself petting my wife like a dog. I'm so clueless.


Those are just a few. Sometimes I feel so ugly because of them. People say that we have the same IQ and are just as smart, but how can you say that? If you don't know how to socialize, you don't know how to socialize. period.

probably saying the wrong thing and pissing people off which is not the same thing as living with an abusive fault finding parent

Over the top "crazy cat lady." (I love Siamese and tabbies the best, because those are the breeds I have.)

I like to read trivia books, work on crossword puzzles, word games and Sudoku.

Once, when I couldn't sleep, I made a list of all the world's countries and their capitals.

My favorite athlete is Roger Bannister.

I listen to the same song over and over again. I chew pen tops. I get involved with the computer a lot, putting me in a trance. I eat each thing at once. I'm still working on my social skills.

1) Obsessively doing things I like when I should be doing something else.
2) Bad and pre-calculated hand-writing.
3) Monotone voice and seemingly pre-calculated facial expressions when talking.
4) Frequent stimming when listening to music or playing a video game (hands agitated very fast).
5) Righteous opinions, unchangeable unless beaten by pure logic.
6) Perfectionism in everything I consider of high-importance.
7) Low-level of general spontaneity
High level of tolerance to fatigue at night, very low level of tolerance in the morning

Amongst others

Okay here's somethings

. When it comes to first impressions or if I meet somebody new. I start thinking loads of stuff. Even fanticizing the future which alot of it probably would be illogical.
So please forgive me.

.Like Kathryn, I like to listen to a song that I live loads of times. The same goes with clips on YouTube.com. Esspecially if it's rare footage of Jim Henson

.I get distracted easilly

.I Hate Small Talk

.I have trouble speaking out my feelings, thoughts, problems and emotions. Sometimes I try to come up with hits of simbolism but it doesn't usually work

.I like to look at the stuff that I like alot. It's sometimes like alittle OCD.

.I overwhelm myself easilly at times

.I'm hard on my mistakes

.I get nervious or confortable with spiciffic people

.I can feel very needy at times (sorry, I'm alittle embarrist over this one)

.I don't like to be bothered when I'm working or discussing my interests. Their my world.

.Mindblindness (can't reconize facial expressions and body launguage)

.Social problems in general (shy, nerious, etc)

I'm easi;y excited and manic by so many things. I get too anxious and have a hard time quieting my brian down to take things in slowly. I have to outrun my anxiety before it catches up to me and makes me give up and hide.

YES


While driving for hours on end isn't one of my specialties (I can do it but I don't like it), I can do other things for long periods like you describe.


Nope


It's not that I think they don't know... it's just that I don't care.


Elbows... every doorway, every time


I had something like this today with the kittens, daughter acting different than normal, and the landlord coming over - but I didn't know exactly when... all at the same time .. I resorted to cursing the computer for being 'stupid' and not doing exactly what I wanted but did not know how to do


I'm not that bad. I don't really care too much about my emails... but I will check here for new posts often.


I haven't used soap on my body regularly for several years now. I loofa my body . I still wash my hair with shampoo though.
Yeah, you got me there on the teeth I can forget to brush mine for a couple of days if my mouth doesn't start tasting/feeling funky


I have never seen any reason to do laundry as much as most people do. I have worn the same shirt twice in a row if I think it isn't dirty or smelly from the day before. Pants... no need to change them everyday for just wearing them around and not doing any dirty stuff in them.


That in conjunction with remembering their names.


Nope!


I like to get it over with. I hate drivers who seem to be very timid about driving.... why be out there then?


I can just stuff it in any old way


No problem for me on this one.


I'm not sure why you consider this a 'bad tendency'. I always figured it was like changing the direction when mowing a yard... I get bored and like to do something different.


Sometimes. I get pissed off mostly concerning cars.


Not sure what you mean by that... humor?


I have no concept of keeping money or it's 'value'. I spend it and give it away too easily.


I have a history of concentrating so much on 'how I was doing' for the other person, I never gave my own self any thought.
I'd totally mess things up sometimes because I would worry I wasn't 'doing it right' and would change how I was moving my body.
This messed up the other person's 'rhythm' so she might not 'finish' (trying to keep this as clean as possible )

sir

You mentioned writing several letters and numbers from the bottom up. The other day my friend told me I was writing my numbers from the bottom up which he said was weird. I hadn't even noticed I did that. I didn't even believe it until I caught myself doing it.

14/19 on your list, I guess that makes both of us an aspie.

Ed Almos

yes to the same song over and over again but I burn it out of me and then I don't care if I never hear it again. I think I am doing things to process myself out of worldly attachments and experimenting with attachment that I don't naturally harbor. I feel like I am in a foxhole right now so the regular rules of long practiced hygiene don't apply. I used to brush my teeth after every meal but now ... I might not.

OOoh, does anyone else need to disintegrate to refresh themselves like a phoenix. I do things that I shouldn't have a weakness for doing like Britney Spears breakdown things but in home related and I can feel myself folding myself down so I can release myself. For example, I have pushed my small bedroom to the limit but from appearances it is not apparent that I am constantly mulling how it is going to look after I finish breaking down and rebuild. I have plans held aloft inside my brain but it wouldn't seem so from appearances.

Also, I like boxes as in cramped spaces and go from liking really tight clothes like leotards to really loose clothes to no clothes at all. I don't do the last thing of course but sometimes I feel like I am molting.

Are all of these things actually aspie things? I have no idea one way or the other, I'm just curious.

I don't normally listen to music, but when I do, I often do this too-or watch like a movie trailer again and again and again-every once in a while I'll waste hours watching/listening to the same thing, though most weeks I don't do that at all.



I do that with some stuff-particularly the internet. I also get sort of "stuck" doing what I'm doing. Maybe I'd rather go start playing a video game, but instead waste hours sort of "stuck" doing something I enjoy less. It's sort of hard for me to change activities some times.



Don't do that, but I do kind of fidget with stuff sometimes.



I get really frustrated if I'm trying to concentrate and there's more than one sound source. Like it's really frustrating if I'm trying to talk to my mom, and the TV is on. I sure as heck can't read and have music on like some people do!



Me too, though I think lots of people do.



I've always been pretty obsessed with cleanliness, though I've been diagnosed with OCD and it probably ties in with that (certainly my hand washing does).

Most of the rest of the list is the complete opposite of me. I sure as heck don't have an issue concentrating on the last one

I'm still not sure if I'm an aspie yet or not, but I can relate to alot of these things. Some of these things can also be ADD and OCD problems.

1. Cursive handwriting: It used to be very neat in school, but now it totally sucks. My print is very good though.

2. The internet: I will have something else to do around the house, but then I will go to check something on the net, and before I know it, 4 or 5 hours have passed by.

3. Anything laying in the floor, I will either trip on it, knock it over, or step on it and smash it.
I seem to always stumble walking up and down stairs or inclines.
I also have clumsy elbows, I either run into people, knock pictures off hallway walls, or just plain knock things over...I bet people think I'm drunk sometimes.

4. I skim through magazines from the back to the front. It just seems easier for me.

5. I'll eat the same thing from the same restaurant over and over gain until I get tired of it. I also like to eat my hamburger first, then go to my fries. I am a picky eater as well...I don't like slimey things.

6. I can go for several days before I get tired of stinking and then force myself to take a shower. I also wear the same clothes for several days, if they aren't too dirty or smelly. On the rare occasion I do go out, I do like to clean myself up though.

eye contact issues... visual thinking... stimming... and all my childhood projects... is what clued me in

but what tipped me off were all my teaching evals, saying i had an odd (but good or bad, i got both) way of explaining things, monotone voice, i should smile more, look at them when working with them, remember their name... all kinds of things like that

after gettin about 60 of those per a term for a couple years... i knew as soon as i read my first article on autism/asperger

some things i did as a kid:

collected heman, my lil ponies, thundercats, dinosaurs, sharks, whales, horses, cats
made a braided yarnball (had to carry it with two hands)
made rollercoaster marble tracks out of toilet paper roles that went up to the ceiling
turned rooms into tented-maze-areas (best way to say it!)
buried treasures outside and boobie-trapped the area
hunted for quartz and geos ect
make comic stips of whole movies
started teaching myself spanish from dictionaries @10
wrote stories and poetry (lawl) at about the same age
in 4th i went and did a month-long project all in one weekend cause it was a "reasearch your favorite topic" i went to the library and wrote 20 pages (not required) and had pics and everything!
carried those "L" straws from box drinks and cupped them to the side of my head and walked around talking to myself all day
turned a dome-shape jungle gym into a stick hut (took for ever but was awesome!)
wrote in a code (can still read!)
i thought hair was clean when it felt all smooth from the conditioner... i had GREASEY hair until i was a teenager when someone pointed it out to me lol

ack it's late there's so many!

Yes. One of the traits: Listening to the same song over and over is definitely me. I have others as well.