Aren't there any aspies who weren't little professors?

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Is it possible to have Aspergers and not be a little professor?

I was never one when I was little because I didn't read on my obsessions and I certinally didn't talk aboout them. I didn't start till I was about six. I talked about my dollhouse and things I was fixated on like my Little Mermaid doll. I didn't start becoming a walking encyclopedia till i was 10. My first obsession I started reading on was about weather and naming every cloud in the sky and talking about how weather works. Then I started to read about dinosaurs which was my other obsession because of Jurassic Park.

But I still got diagnosed with Aspergers and I pointed out to my doctor I wasn't a little professor so how can I have it, and she told me I would have been that way but because of my hearing loss, I didn't do it so I was delayed. If I wasn't deaf as a baby, I would have developed normally and probably talked about my interest and know about it.

I have an online aspie friend who was speech delayed too because he has hearing loss, (born that way) but he still talked about his obsession with whales and knew facts about them from age 3. I didn't about my obsessions.

I still remember that you spoke to me so much of why you are dead set against it, but I am just saying...

I marvel sometimes at how well some deaf people do in some things. Still, with no help, they WILL be delayed to some degree.

Heck, I think the average AS interest as a baby is spoken language, because they hear, it is intriging, and they see the potential. I think the secondary one is reading, as an outgrowth of that. That leads to other things. So it is logical that being deaf would delay all of that.

I may or may not be an Aspie... and I don't remember being a little Professor.

People thought I was a smart, bright kid... I learned to read at a very young age.

But I don't remember obsessing over one specific thing too much. Perhaps I would go on and on about my video games or whatever... but not in a little professor way.

My son (he's 10) goes to a weekly therapy group and out of the 4 kids there I think only my son would be considered "a little professor" Or as we like to call him "the walking encyclopedia"

I think I might of been a little professor.

I think I was kinda stuck between "little professor" and "little philosopher" (to use Tony Atwood's explanation for girls). I have always been very much into informing people of my special interests to the point of being told I was "lecturing" instead of talking to people.

I was reading encyclopedia's by age 5, but I grew up in a home that I wasn't allowed to talk back. If someone would have listened, I would have spoke more to people, instead I acted out and ran away a lot.

mojo123

Well...does being called too "big for your britches count?"

i heard that a lot too!

Me third! lol I also got called bossy, and a tattle tell.

I never was a little professor. I was neither showing off nor a know-it-all, not particularly interested in encyclopedias and nobody ever claimed I was a little professor. I was a very late reader, not the least interested in books, so, yeah... not a little professor.

Older men always told me from an early age that I would make a good lawyer. Adult men found me fascinating from an early age.

But happily a professor did once tell me that I could get my Phd if I wanted to. That was nice since I was too cheap to buy the text book and was having a hard time reading the text books at that time.

I'm not that interested in law but I can see how the structure of it would be attractive to aspies and they would be good at it because the social structure of it is a bit cooler in acceptable social interaction.

I could read at an early age, but that's about it. I wouldn't call myself a "genius" or anything. Probably just average. I did really crappy in school, mostly because I didn't want to be there. I hated school, & was too nervous to pay attention to anything. I always just wanted to go home.

sora,are hf kanners and not aspergan? wonder if this is another one of the differences between the hf kanners and as?

I wasn't a "little professor" and did not really read until I was six. Once I did read I was more interested in fictional books.

Same with me (when I was little) and my son. He doesn't care about technicalities so much with most things, he's the one asking all of the questions. He finds out how something works, gets an idea in his mind, and that's it. But if it comes to the movie Cars, he knows exactly how it all goes, lol, and will talk on and on about it. When gathering information from people when he asks a question, he'll say "you mean like in the movie Cars when he....?" lol. He's very bright, he just doesn't talk in a very professor-like way.