What AS trait do you think applies most to you?

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For me, probably the usual social defects, or my memory, which is pretty much a tape recorder.

The propensity to log on to WP and never leave!

Sensory issues

Good memory
Highly developed special interests

The bit about being anti-social, or whatever.

Obsessions with strange things.

Sensory issues definitely comes in first.

Sadly for me it would be avoiding eye contact and showing lack of empathy.

Obsessive and disorganized. Great combo.

I think too much.

Being preoccupied with constructing worldviews and then using them to evaluate everything.

Fantastic photographic memory and highly developed special interests.
However, I have no short-term memory whatsoever.

An intensely curious, hyperactive mind that can ignore the "noise" and see things from a radically different prespective. That, and hyperindividuality, to the point I feel irreconcilably alienated from my own species. The two traits are inherently linked, methinks. I feel like I'm program to live outside of human society. I can never assimilate, but can only observe society from my isolation.

I've also got the whole "pedantic and verbose" thing down pat...and I get a lot of miles of that perverted self-amusment from correcting other people's errors....and people think I'm arrogant and rude....but they find me curiously open and tolerant once they get to know me....even if they don't always get my sense of humor...and I have obsessive interests in "odd" things...like the ratio of prose to verse in Shakespeare's plays...or learning foreign languages that I have no immediate use for (like Ancient Greek or Scottish Gaelic) even though learning another language (like Spanish) would be infinitely more practical...and I have "delayed social development"... and emotional displays and social nuances confuse me....and I was very fond of the color yellow as a child...

Definitely a preoccupation with things that no one else seems interested in. A fantastic talent for distracting myself with meaningless pursuits. Sensory issues. Melt downs because of sensory issues. Hugely verbose vocabulary. Overthink EVERYTHING. Social gatherings completely overwhelm me if I feel as if I am not in my own element. Propensity for going inward when uncomfortable. Research stuff to death. Way too smart for my own good. Way odd to others.....

I don't know all of the 'AS traits', but having read the posts I would expect that my most AS trait is that I analyze everything to the extreme. For me, life is an equation and my social ineptitudes are strictly a matter of having yet to arrive at the appropriate equation and solution.