Unique AS traits you may have.

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Do you ever feel like your the only one -even including out of all aspies- with a certain trait?
I doubt this, but does anyone else think this too?
Since I was really little, I have always found the letters of the alphabet either masculine (M), feminine (F), or neuter (N).
A: F
B: M
C: F
D: M
E: M
F: M
G: F
H: F
I: M
J: N
K: F
L: F
M: M
N: F
O: M
P: F
Q: F
R: M
S: F
T: M
U: M
V: F
W: F
X: N
Y: F
Z: N

Please share your stories of things you think your unique in!

I haven't ever thought of letters as masculine or feminine. I do have a strong association between some numbers and letters though. The letter "S" and number "3" is the strongest. I'll often write 3 instead or S when I'm not concentrating.

Perhaps on a subconcious level you associate the letters with the beginning letters of male, female or both/neither names?

By your system my first name has three male letters and three female letters. Neat.

That sounds like a type of synesthesia, or something similar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_li ... nification

Do letters have personalities for you, or just genders? Do numbers have genders for you?

I don't know why Im like that with the letters. I think its because of all the sounds they make.
I like this to numbers too. For the most part, even numbers are feminine and odds are masculine. 7 is the most interesting, by itsself is masculine. 17, 27, 47, 67, 87, 97 are feminine.(37, 57, and 77 are neuter, exceptions) It "feminizes" numbers. 3 is also interesting, by itsself, it is masculine.
33, 53, 73 are masculine. 13, 23, 43, 63 are neuter. 3 "neuters" numbers, with few exceptions. (83 or 93, because numbers beginning with 8 or 9 are feminized.) Any number with 3 or more digits that begin with 3 are masculine.
Am interesting property of 7?
For numbers 3+digits
an even amount of 7 is feminine, an odd amount is masculine. (exception, ANY numbers beginning with "17" are FEMININE. such as 170 000, 174, 965.....

I do have synaethesia. Even certain sounds are genders. I also very slightly hear or smell things that arent there.

I have a synaesthesia that appears to be unusual (I've posted about it here before) in that while I have mild prosopagnosia, people's faces have smells to me (but only if the face is moving as in on video or in person. Not in photographs.) It doesn't seem to help me recognize faces any better because several faces can have the same smell so I still recognize people by hair, voice, clothing, being in the place I expect them to be, etc. But it can make some people difficult for me to look at or be around if the smell of their face is unpleasant to me.

I find it funny that F:M

When I think of numbers 1-10 they each have their own color, mostly lighter shades or pastels, but 5 is always bright red. Once I get past 10 the numbers have similar coloring to their single-digit counterparts (ie 16 is close to 6 in color) but the colors get deeper and more vivid the higher they are. But 15, 25, 35, etc are always the same bright red.

I'm not sure if I have that particular type of synaesthesia, because to me the whole alphabet is a masculine thing! Got other kinds of syn though. It seems to occur more often than would be expected by chance in those with AS.

Your choice of thread title is interesting - if an AS trait is unique, it's probably not as AS trait!

Having said that, I've only recently started exploring the possibility that I have AS, and there are a number of "traits" I have that I still wonder about, as to whether they are part of AS or not, because I haven't found them mentioned here or in the books/articles I have read.