Not sure if I'm an Aspie or just lame

treblecake · Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 1:10 pm Post subject:

Hi, just found this site recently after doing research into aspergers.
I highly suspect that I have aspergers and keep on finding relatable forums here.

I'd appreciate if you could give me your opinion on whether it sounds like I have aspergers. BTW I'm 16.
Oh and HEY TO EVERYONE ON WP YOU ALL SEEM LIKE VERY NICE FOLK.

So thinking back to my childhood I remember things like:
-Never fitting in.
-Prefering to play alone in kindergarten.
-I liked collecting things like stamps and stickers.
-In year one I remember my favourite activity was sorting buttons (although I liked other stuff like dressing up)
-I was easily influenced by other kids and believed them all the time.
-My mum always told me off for not looking at people when they talked to me.
-I would ask questions constantly while watching movies and would get upset when no one could explain the minute details to me.
-I had nightmares about a certain textures.
-Sometimes when I thought about the world too much I would go into like trances where I felt disconnected from my body.
-I always made a point of not crying in front of people.
-I liked walking on all fours around the house.
-I had twitches like bobbing my head or squinting my eyes.
-I loved reading.
-Had a lisp.
-If I listened to any sound for long enough it'd begin to sound like a person going "wah,wah" (okay that made no sense)
-In school holidays I liked making scedules of my day.

Symptoms that I've noticed in reasent years include:
-Loud noises like buses scare me sometimes.
-I get smells mixed up.
-Have a bad short term memory.
-Forget names of people or objects.
-I have friends but I don't really connect with them.
-I get scared of social interactions.
-I feel awkward when I'm standing up, I never know what to do with my arms.
-I find it hard to tell if people are being sarcastic or not.
-I take things too literally.
-I can't read facial expressions (like the other day I found out that whatI thought was my friend's "judging face" was actually her "happy" face)
-I take long to understand jokes.
-I find it hard to communicate what I'm thinking.
-I feel uncomfortable talking about my emotions.
-I have tendancies to talk either to loudly or too softly and I talk in too much detail.
-Most of the time I don't know what to say in conversation.
-I am always trying to find something to obsess over otherwise I feel kinda empty.
-I get attached to everything I own, because of the memories I associate with them.
-I have terrible procrastination habits, even when it comes to doing things I enjoy I just end up sitting and thinking about doing them.
-Once I get stuck into something I can't stop doing it and hours pass without me noticing.
-I always get fixated on the small details of things, rather than the bigger picture.
-I like to divide my food as much as I can and eat each section separately.

So yeah. I'm not sure if I'm an aspie because lots of these things NT do as well Confused

maybe I'm just a lame person.