How strong is your aspergers syndrome?

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I have random stims. I also sometimes burst into singing when their is no music.

Social Issues: moderate

Eye Contact: severe

Nonverbal Communication Fluency: mild to moderate (It is easier to understand nonverbal communication if I am sitting back as an observer. If I am involved in the conversation, I miss a lot of things)

Pendantry: severe

Obsessive Interests: moderate to severe

Changes in Routine: moderate (I can only abide my own spurs of the moment)

Sensory Issues: moderate to severe (stimming, sensitivities to certain things, etc.)

Gross Motor Coordination: moderate to severe

Fine Motor Coordination: mild (though I can still be a messy eater)

Executive Dysfunction: moderate (I have some CAPD and attention problems as well)

I think my biggest problem is that my sense of the here & now is a little numbed. Not nearly as bad as it used to be now of course, I can get my job done pretty well and can cut through the haze - just that I have to be one of those highly disciplined people who cuts hard with his psychological motions and movements, otherwise I'll lose a lot of momentum.

Now this is an interesting idea, I've never tried to quantify it in quite that way, more in general ways.

I'd say moderately weak.

Social:

I don't socialize as I get paranoid arond large groups of people unless in the grip of an obsession.
I also tend to say really dumb things a lot and then stress over it and work myself up into insomnia and anxiety attacks.

I don't do eye contact as I feel intensely uncomfortable with people looking me in the eye. I feel that they are looking into my head and I hate it.

I don't generally have many friends as I have trouble trusting people and I like to be alone a lot to get my thoughts going and get studying (If I find something interesting to study, then I get obsessed and you won't get me to talk about anything else for ages).

I don't share my obsessions anymore except computers. Having your interests used as a weapon to emotionally abuse and bully you at school tends to make one distinctly taciturn.

Body Language... I understand to a degree, from experience and if I know the people in question otherwise It's a mystery I won't notice unless I'm actively looking for it and then I am not paying enough attention to the conversation and tend to lose track of things.

I can't stand change of any sort. I'll do anything to avoid it. I start getting anxiety attacks and insomnia again.

I used to be very pedantic and I still despise the abomination most youngsters today call English "Eh?? Innit??? You wot??" etc, but I generally keep my mouth shut and my head down.

Motor... used to be clumsy, not so bad now, hand tremors from medication (carbamazepine) but good fine motor skills regards typing (60+ words per minute on a good day)

Organisational skills... pretty bad. to coin a phrase: "I couldn't organise a p**s-up in a brewery" (if you'll pardon the vulgarity of the expression).

Stims... using my fingernails to analyse textures on whatever surface is nearby, counting teeth on my comb, moving my feet all the time when sitting, picking the skin on my fingers until it bleeds, compulsive stroking of my face, always scratching or moving my hands.

Also, I make my ears pop all the time. Like when you go up in an aeroplane? I can do it all the time by adjusting my jaw muscles and I like doing that.

I hate crowded areas, noisy areas, bright light (especially sun), certain man-made fibres and detergents make me come up in terrible rashes that then start bleeding and weeping.

Strangely, I love traveling by train and looking at industrial estates. I can't afford to travel by train much but I enjoy watching the industrial areas. I've liked that ever since I was a little boy.

But I get paranoid if I can't sit nect to the window looking in the direction the train is going. I hate talking in the train too, I just want to watch things.

Eating: I organize my food into seperate areas for meat, veg, meat on the right, veg on the left with a large area for moving things to for cutting up.

Some of all this may be totally irrelevant though, but I've enjoyed writing that.

Cheers people.

Yes, I get very uncomfortable if I can't have a window seat. Even though I know it may be rude, I still insist on having the window seat if I'm with someone else.

Definitely strong when I was a child/teenager, even up to university. Must have seemed very weird. Particular problems with co-ordination when young - handwriting, balance, inability to catch a ball or even run properly. No friends till university. Some talent at maths/computers.

Weak and well-disguised now in middle age. Can certainly pass for normal. Social life, fitness and relations with the opposite sex have got better and better through life. Still like being on my own to unwind now and again. Still find driving stressful.

I would say in the middle.

Social Issues: moderate

Eye Contact: severe

Nonverbal Communication Fluency: mild

Pendantry: severe

Obsessive Interests: severe

Changes in Routine: mild - I can change routine, I just very much don't like to.

Sensory Issues: severe, with smell affected the most.

Gross Motor Coordination: mild

Fine Motor Coordination: mild

Organizational skills: I'm great at this.

How much effect has it had on my development as a person... the making of me: almost total control.

There is someone else with AS who goes to Max Creek shows. He is obviously affected far more than I outwardly. What's on the inside? each of us can only say that for himself, and then only if lucky. I'm going to vote on outward appearance, and vote mild, but I know it's more than that.

No idea.

AS isnt sumthing thats WRONG with you its sumthing thats RITE with you

I really don't like this explanation of the differential between HFA and AS. Maybe between your form and AS, but its utterly different for myself. If you've taken the Sally-Anne test and were dumbfounded by the second question, this is how it is like for a lot more other things, like speaking/writing, also. This is, to me, the real difference between AS and HFA.
I wonder what Elfman thinks?

Systemising Quotient: 56.
Empathy Quotient: 9.
Social issues: not that great. Have a whole anti-Malcolm band.
Eye contact: mild.
Obsessive Interests: mild- used to be severe.
Changes in routine: mild.
Organizational skills: good. I am good at organizing various things.

I think you guys have lost me...I do not understand what is being said I am afraid...

Mines around imbetween strong and medium

My Asperger's syndrome is pretty strong. I bet it could beat up your Asperger's syndrome if it wanted to! It just doesn't want to because violence is never the answer even if the question is what isn't the answer. Oh, and it's busy doing something else.

You said it!