What exactly is Residual Asperger's?

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In ghost haunting, a residual haunting is a playback of a past event that happened. Sometimes it occurs over and over again in a loop, the time periods can vary depending on the haunting.
It's the same as an "imprint" the energy of the past has been left there to repeat itself.

I would think they would just say the person has ASD traits. Or after the DSM-5, they might have social/communication traits.

A Residual Asperger doesn't exist.

I actually do the same with my routines, most of them are socially accpetable.

I'm carrying mostly the same stuff with me in my backpack need my computer to work on, eat every morning for breakfast an egg and stuff like this. Most ppl wouldn't even identify them as "autistic routines", but I really can't function without them.

I think the same is possible with special interests and stuff.
Mine are not really (psychology, but I don't study it), so I don't talk about it much, so everything is fine.

I see it like this:
My mom had dyslexia as a child, like me and my brother. She toled me that you have dyslexia throughout your life, no matter if you learn how to read and write. I learned how to read and write in my own language pretty well, but then I started learning forreign languages and noticed that in very single language I have different difficulties with my dyslexia. So I can be in one language still be clearly dyslexic and in others have "residual dyslexia".
I think in ASD it's more or less the same, just that we have more or less just one body language and so on...!
But put this person in a different environment or put them in a difficult situation and ASD may come again if you will...!

I remember getting retested for HFA at the age of 16 and a half and on the top of my document pages, it said HFA - Residual type. I've always wondered what it meant.

I'm pretty sure I have this....never knew there was a term for it!

Seeing that it's Tony Attwood's term, in the context of common pathways to diagnosis, I'd say it was like when I was diagnosed and treated by hypno-regression-therapy at age 49 to help me recover from a severe nervous breakdown at my desk in work - the clinical psychiatrist who attended to me could not diagnose and treat me from anything I said or did when not under hypnosis - so took me back to my earliest childhood memories - as I told him in my initial interview that I had a history of severe amnesia and loss of personal identity and my breakdown had been triggered by sleep deprivation caused by a cousin who had been writing to me as she was having dreams of ritual satanic abuse in our family when we were kids - and he found from the hypno-regression-therapy I had been diagnosed as having 'Parfait Savantism' at age four and a half by the head teacher of the first school that I attended, 'Childhood Autism' at age four by a doctor, and 'Autistic Psychopathy' (another name now for 'Asperger's Syndrome') as a teenager at fifteen and a half by two famous psychiatrists, one each from the US and the EU, but had switched my memory off just before they examined me, so they'd had to use hypno-regression also. It was residual in the sense that what made me seriously dysfunctional in my childhood and teens was my propensity towards thoughts of death and suicide. They had caused me to attempt suicide five times; and to switch my memory and personal identity off because trying to kill my body and brain had proven so futile so many times. I had succeeded in this, but it was only a temporary patch repair, as I returned to thinking about death and suicide at 49, as a result of the hypno-regression-therapy to treat the nervous breakdown, and gave in to them at age 55 by trying to kill my body and brain again, for the sixth attempt. Therefore, I'd say 'residual Asperger's in adulthood' means, severe Asperger's in childhood / teens successfully suppressed, but hidden somehow, somewhere, ready to spontaneosly attack, in adulthood.

I once knew someone who said they have residual Asperger's and I asked what the difference was between residual and regular AS. The response I got was:

"As far as I was told, it means I would have been diagnosed as a 'regular' aspie if I'd received a diagnosis when I was younger. However, because I've developed a bunch of 'alternative strategies' to cope with day-to-day life, can hold down a reasonably social and multi-faceted job, and have a few friends, I get the 'residual' diagnosis. The symptoms are all still there on the inside, but I can suppress them (to some extent) when I'm around others, so it's not immediately noticeable that I'm on the spectrum (I certainly act more 'normal' than when I was younger).

I suppose most people could meet me and realise I'm a bit odd - I get called kooky, unusual, eccentric, eclectic, weird, odd etc on a weekly basis - but it would take someone who knows me better to think it may be more than mere oddness, and there aren't many who know me that well.

I've also heard the term applied to people whose aspie features have mellowed or faded over time. IMO, though, I haven't mellowed, I've just gotten better at acting NT(especially pre-diagnosis)."

I love it!! Literally laughing out loud.

Also, "a touch of Asperger's" is when someone with Asperger's touches you and it rubs off.

In my "steady state," I'm a "residual Aspie." Under stress, though, I am more frankly autistic (though still pretty mild). I had Kanner autism till age 5.5.

Yep I do have this kind also,
Got rid of the sensory issues I've had but still Need a bit of help on the social side of it!

I can relate to that, kraftie.

Although I was diagnosed ASD and no mention of residual came up, I feel like my very best functional days could almost be described as me heading up toward "residual" status, and my most stressful times I become, if anything "even more" autistic in very clear ways. For me, it's like stress plays a large role in dictating how severely affected I am by my level of impairment.

It's kinda weird for me, because I actually excelled beyond most of my peers in language from an early age (now I've learned a bit of Spanish and Russian), but I stimmed a lot until age 12 in the form of wrist-flapping, and it's since evolved into a subtle strut with my fists clenched and my tongue pressing my soft palate and being clenched between my molars when I'm excited, and getting into a quasi-fetal position when listening to music, often concentrating my gaze on one particular spot for a long period of time and losing visual focus. It's like I want to stim, but it's just "trapped".

Other than that I just had a lot of issues getting along in school because I would correct my classmates in elementary school while they read aloud to the class, and later in high school I would just sit at my friends' lunch table and listen to their conversations without really participating. Also, I would pick up on subtle - and sometimes less-subtle - hints from girls that they liked me...but I didn't know what to do with it. I was anxious and "ignorant" of the rules of hitting on girls and dating, and all that stuff. Plus, I was kind of a creeper sometimes, unintentionally stalking a couple of crushes I had by either sitting in their spot on the bus or just behind it, or following them to the library and taking a seat about twenty-five feet away, watching at just the right angle, wanting desperately to just go up and talk to them (I knew that one in middle school, but we parted ways during high school and met again in college in our Russian class, but she didn't remember me). It wasn't until I was 19 that I actually had a girlfriend, and now she's broken up with me for the second and final time, because I was being a butthead not accepting her autism and mine, as well as our mutual 33-year-old friend's autism.

I don't think I necessarily have "Residual Asperger's" (I was diagnosed with PDD-NOS at about 6 or 7), but I am a bit of an oddity in the aspie community nonetheless.

Is it possible to outgrow sensory sensitivities or different thinking and processing patterns?

Sensory sensitivities seem to me to vary a lot according to what else is going on and stress level.

What is residual Aspergers or the idea of losing or recovering from Autism? BS. In so many other conditions bieng in remission even permently is accepted. But not for Autism. Just another double standard.

I do believe there are so many severities of Autism. Everybody with Autism are different. There are so many grey areas. Even when I read posts here by different people, I can sort of tell how their condition affects their life.

It's like anything really, even things like injuries. Some injuries are critical, and the patient either becomes paralyzed for the rest of their lives, or dies. Others have injuries that can be more treatable but they still need intensive care in hospital for some time, but chances of recovery are still very great. And then there are minor injuries where the person can be treated with antibiotics and carry on with normal life as before.
But injuries can depend on the person's health too, so I minor injury could be incredibly dangerous to some, if they have certain health conditions. Also a minor, mundane injury like a papercut could turn life-threatening if it gets infected and left untreated.

So yeah, everything has mild to severe cases (and so many grey areas in between). Anxiety holds me back more than anything, but I still consider myself a mild Aspie.