Which Asperger's stereotypes do you not exhibit?

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I'm the same.

Plus, I'm not a natural mathematician. I'm not terrible, I just don't have a gift for it or an interest in it. I understand it's importance, of course, and marvel at it - but I know that it is for other people to explore that territory, not I.

I don't stim. I have some slight stim like behaviours (I kick my feet to get sleep sometimes, though a lot less now that I'm married ). But I don't rock or hand flap or touch my face anymore than anyone else. I used to like the feeling of my hand waving or flapping as a kid, but I wouldn't do it very often.

I've also had a great deal of sympathy for every living creature (though admittedly, more towards animals than people) even though I didn't really understand most of human behaviour.

Everyone with AS has these differences between one another, just like every other group on the planet. I like it. Just because we have a condition like this, doesn't mean someone can judge us outright based on a diagnosis.

I always heard people with ASD flapped their hands, which I never understood. Then in on book by that Liane lady, she said we have imaginary friends when we're younger. Give me a break!

I'm pretty bad with math, good with being verbal and obsessed with books, but I dont talk to people about my interests, I have alot of all the other traits that come out almost everyday and some of that toe-walking stuff.

I don't have:

Math genius and excel in it
Into gadgets and electronic stuff and fixing things
Taking things apart and putting them together (did when I was little according to my mother)
Into cars and fixing them
Good artist
Little professor






I had imaginary friends when I was little 777. It's a personality thing, she said she had them, I don't remember her saying all aspies have them.

A lack of a sense of humor.
I have one. It gets me. *slaps knee*

I'm not extremely skilled in any way. I'm generally a bright person, and I know tons of random facts about my areas of interest so I'm good at trivia, but I'm not fantastic at anything. I'm not too ritualistic, and I understand social cues etc, although I struggle socially. I understand socialization, and I can mimic the parts that don't come naturally, I just find it exhausting and phony and don't enjoy it. Math and science are my weak areas, and I instead prefer fiction and all that, which is not aspie like at all. I also have friends, but have had the same ones forever and can't make new ones. Other than that, I'm pretty closely AS, but still perhaps too high functioning for a diagnosis. I hide my stimming and obsessions for the most part, and unless you spend a lot of time with me, you tend not to notice my social oddities.

I'm not intensely absorbed in any subjects/interests.
I'm not a wiz kid, I'm average not superior.
I'm not good at math.
I don't talk people's ears off, I can usually tell if they're not interested. I think I learned this, I used to talk quite a bit but hardly do anymore.
I can make eye contact with people I'm comfortable with.
I don't stim much or noticeably. I think I learned to hide it, I remember my mom telling me to keep my hands still.
I don't have to have routines or structured activities, I'm pretty flexible, though I don't like change.
I'm not emotionless, I have some empathy and sympathy, I care. Though sometimes I wish I didn't.
I don't think I lack common sense. Though I've been laughed at for some of the naive things I've said.
And I don't mind being touched, even lightly, though I must give off the impression that I do because they usually apologize. So it must be an unconscious reaction or something.

I don't have:

Extremely rigid routines, I'm pretty easy-going.
I lack face blindness, I remember faces spectacularly well, actually.

I don't stim (sounds like a Phaser setting or something). Had to get the meaning in context here.

Math is a tool. I don't need a Craftsman multitool, give me one way that gives me the right answer..

heavy blankets - who knew? does a body pillow count?

Taking things apart - only to a degree. In my line of work, the fewer parts removed, the better..

I recognize faces just fine. It's the names that get me..

hand flapping? how?

I don't have:

-math skills. At all. I run into the problem that I'll learn how to do the question one specific way, and if the question changes at all, I get confused and panic.
-any kind of technical skill.
-face blindness, though names baffle me completely.
-I don't mind being touched; I'm quite the opposite. I like touching things. And people. This can be a problem.
-lack of empathy; I empathize, I just don't know how to express it.
-dislike of lights/sounds/fabrics.
-visual/eidetic memory.
-not all that picky about my food, although I don't tend to let it touch other food on my plate.
-I don't have too much of a problem with eye contact, although this may be learned.

I do have:

-twitching (is this called stimming?)
-obsessive tendencies.
-tendency to go on at length about stuff no one else cares about, although I've learned when to stop most of the time, but it's hard.
-little professor tendencies.
-weird phrases in my speech
-tendency to copy things around me, like other people's speech patterns, or spending an entire conversation quoting from various places.
-advanced vocabulary at a young age
-artistic, although I tend more to music/writing than drawing
-bluntness
-taking things literally when I shouldn't
-focusing on things to the point of forgetting things like eating, sleeping, homework.
-being very agitated or paniced when routines/rules are broken or not clearly defined in the first place
-needing rigid rules/routines in order to get anything useful done; I've started making lists for myself every night, of what I need to to the next day and when I need to do it, and it's working amazingly.
-lack of social skills, and the accompanying bullying in school

probably a few more I don't know about, or can't remember. Wow. I didn't know I had that many of them. I'm gaining a new appreciation of lists this week.

i am not a little professor. i am not a genuis at my special interests. i don't talk about them non stop. my routines can be changed without panic. i am not that fussy when it comes to foods, i can't draw. no good at math.

I am not all that bad at math but I would like to be a lot better
I would especially like to be one of the human calculators like Daniel Tammet
That would be cool

hmm...

*I am definitely not a computer geek. Technology boggles my mind.
*I don't go on and on about things that interest me, although I do tend to throw them into conversations at least once.
*I don't despise social situations, depending on where I am.
*I am somewhat routine-oriented, but my entire day isn't thrown off if I'm disrupted.
*I'm not completely uncoordinated.
*Although I was quite literal as a child, I'm not anymore. I understand figures of speech and such just fine now.
*I don't rock or hand flap; I stim, but in less obvious ways.

I just found out recently that a few family members have "always wondered" if I was mildly autistic... so I guess it shows.

-Superior IQ-just average
-Eye contact-I make eye contact just fine
-Rigid routines-don't have many
-Hate changes-I need changes, I don't like being cooped up in one place forever otherwise I go crazy
-Emotionless-not me
-math/tech whiz-i'm good at math but not a genius
-sensitivity to light/sound-don't have that problem
-being literal-sometimes, but I'm mostly analytical

I am kinda sorta grateful for some of the things I have grown out of.
I was uber-sensitive when I was little.

Sometimes I think that to some degree, my ADD symptoms counteract my AS symptoms.

I have rigid habits, but they are somewhat different from routines....I think....

What is stereotypically AS?

This had me thinking for a while.

I coped with several things, but these are stereotypes I never fit to begin with:

* special interest
* normal speech and language
* clumsy, motor deficits
* intense focus, good concentration
* 'just' distressed by break of routines
* poor prosody
* nerdy, geeky
* asocial
* no repetitive behaviour
* cannot lie
* can read basic facial expressions