Aspergers is not a personality type!
Chris71186
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It is perfectly possible for a person with Asperger's to be confident, extroverted, and enjoy socializing with people. I am like this. I know two other girls and one guy with Asperger's IRL who are like this.
well you can add another to your list because I'm like this to
How you can be "shy" and "confident" at the same time? I am not an English-speaker, but my ideia is that the definition of "shy" is "person who is quite and introvert because lack of confidance" (in contrast with a person who is quite and introvert simply because he does not like - or like only in reduced levels - to talk and socialize).
Actually, you can be shy and confident at the same time. Being ''unconfident'' doesn't mean you're ''shy'', exactly. There are other ways you can be confident, and it doesn't necessarily mean you mix really well.
I know someone who is shy, but she's just graduated from university, and is going on to do what she really wants to do, and at the end of this year she has arranged and planned to fly out to California to do the career she wants to do - all on her own. She must be confident if she's doing that all by herself, because I wouldn't because I'm unconfident. Also, she is confident in herself - she never puts herself down and she's been studying really hard for some years. She doesn't have many friends but she has some, who are shy people too.
And I have a cousin who make friends really quickly and easily, and she is outgoing. But when it comes to looking for jobs, she doesn't seem to have much confidence to do it, and it isn't laziness because she really wants a job.
So yeh, you can be unconfident but not shy. OK, I'm both shy and unconfident, which hasn't got me anywhere. I think if I had more confidence in myself I wouldn't struggle with life so much, whether I'm shy or not.
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Same here.
I would describe myself as extroverted and not confident. I like to be around other people, in general I like and in fact crave social settings, although if it gets too noisy or if there are multiple conversations happening at once I can get overwhelmed. But I tend to find a small group of people and just listen, only occasionally saying anything. I just kind of hover there and freak people out with my silence. I have a hard time sensing the cue when it is appropriate to jump in and say something, so I just don't. And I like to have things well thought out before I say it, so by the time I am ready the conversation has often moved on to something else.
I'm a 100% introvert. I am usually shy (depending on the situation), but I can give myself confidence and speak up when I need to.
Exactly what I was trying to say.
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I'm not shy anymore. I think I just didn't care about anything outside of my interests so people thought I was.
I don't have much interest in talking people except for 3 people in the same band, a welsh singer, the band After the Fall, and Trial Kennedy and my one or two friends if I ever see them again.
People exhaust me. I'll talk to them and hang out for awhile but any longer than I want to and I'll start going quiet because I get angrier and angrier, and if someone says something insulting I'm outta there.
I'm pretty sure I'm an introvert because I feel the most energy when I'm alone, give or take a few cats.
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I'd say I'm extroverted and outgoing and autistic.
Extroverted because I get energised by being with people. I do get drained too though - the more I try to socialise normally. If I stay truer to myself/my autism, I feel good with people.
Outgoing - when I feel like it. But I'd rather be with somebody having fun than being by myself, because that's just more exciting to me.
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Shyness is social anxiety - you are extremely anxious in certain social settings. Most shy people I've met tend to come across as really quiet until they get to know you, at which point they're as chatty as anyone else. (I knew a developmentally disabled girl who was extremely shy - for the first few minutes in the program each week she'd speak in a whisper, avoid eye contact and hang back from the activity. Once she calmed down she got bossy and engaging, telling the volunteers where to stand and controlling all the action with a smile on her face.)
I'm pretty much exactly that.
I think AS is a personality type, but it's separate from introversion. It's more about being intense and hyposocial. Hyposocial doesn't mean introverted, it means less focused on social things. You can be extroverted hyposocial, or introverted and not hyposocial. Basically it means that unlike NTs, you don't have an intense interest in people. You don't constantly monitor relationships (gossiping), and when you're interacting with others (however much you can tolerate) you're more interested in the practical purpose of the interaction rather than interaction for its own sake.
Bingo!
I voted "introvert but confident", but I am often extraverted too, in small assemblys - around a subject, but I´m often almost shy. It depends on who´s present. I like company, but the word is, as written, hyposocial: I like to be social under the "right" conditions, but at a limited level. And I never got a kick from being social for the sake of being social.
As may be a disorder, but it is a personality type as well.
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