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aspie56
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26 Aug 2011, 7:16 pm

how do i have aspergers if in high school i have about 5 friends and a girlfriend? i can be quiet, but i do socialize. 3 weeks in high school now, is aspergers an affect in social skills, or in ur socail life?



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26 Aug 2011, 8:44 pm

aspie56 wrote:
how do i have aspergers if in high school i have about 5 friends and a girlfriend? i can be quiet, but i do socialize. 3 weeks in high school now, is aspergers an affect in social skills, or in ur socail life?


Some people with AS have a few friends or even a boyfriend or girlfriend, sometimes even a husband or wife.

The DSM-IV actually was never specific on how the social difficulty should manifest. It only states something of the sort of it needing to have a large impact on one in some social aspect.