syzygyish wrote:
1. Not many friends : there's a huge difference between being actually anti-social,
and having social skills problems, wanting to be social, but being hopeless at it.
3. distant with many people : We're shy, they're completely apathetic.
1. There is also a huge diff between anti-social (which includes hostility)/antisocial personality disorder (which includes being charming, manipulative and sadistic) and being asocial, which simply mean that one wishes to be left alone.
3. Not all Aspies are shy, and there is no .
I just have to point out that one can easily both have an ASD (including social impairment) and be asocial and aloof.
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GILLBERG'S CRITERIA FOR ASPERGER'S DISORDER
1.Severe impairment in reciprocal social interaction
(at least two of the following)
(a) inability to interact with peers
(b) lack of desire to interact with peers
(c) lack of appreciation of social cues
(d) socially and emotionally inappropriate behavior
On another note I'm so tired of hearing about how sad or wrong it is to be reclusive, introvert, asocial and/or aloof. It's not. Being one or more of these simply mean you try to live your life the way you're wired (including your personality, not only ASD vs NT). It's more seldom, it's never wrong or sad.
I bet a lot of the antisocial (not APD, just being antisocial) being hostile towards society to a large degree derives from not being allowed to live according to one's harmless wiring. It's just another way of being and perceiving. No harm is done when someone is content on their own.