Is it possible to have aspergers with good eye contact???

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It took me a long, long time to realise that I wasn't making eye contact when I interacted with people. I've learned to fake it, but often forget to.

It's taken me even longer to work out that eye contact actually involves exchange of non-verbal information, and that's something that I still have difficulty with. Just managing to look at someones eyes, which is to me like overcoming the repulsion of similar magnetic poles, is only part of the story.

Reading Thinking About You Thinking About Me by Michelle Garcia Winner gave me some useful clues about this.

I'm an Aspie with good eye contact myself, and I always had good eye contact when I was a child, even as a baby.

It's only fear of being overwhelmed that causes poor eye contact. Deal with the fear, problem solved.

Um, no.
For me it's also that it's physically painful, uncomfortably intimate and I forget to do it.

When I first came here I was thinking hmmn, well maybe I don't have AS since I do make eye contact with people. In fact I feel uncomfortable if I can't see a person's face while they are talking.

But the last couple of weeks, I notice more and more that I actually don't make eye contact as much as I thought I did. Most of the time I am watching their lips while they talk. Well now I think maybe it's because I understand what people are saying a little better if I see their lips moving.

I've been trying to look directly into people's eyes and it feels weird!! ! I can't sustain it for more than like a second or two. Weird!! ! It is easier to look at a space in front of their eyes and now I realize that's what I've been doing.

So many things I thought I knew about myself, I didn't know at all.

i have ALL of the *other* symptoms.....down to a "T"

i'm not sure what PDD-NOS, is but i doubt its a substitute diagnois for a minor version of aspergers......

its crystal clear to me ; after conferring w/ a PSYCHIATRIST ( ie : physician) ~ AND ~ reading up on all avail . info on the symdrome...that i have asperger's


is PDD-NOS even 'RECOGNIZED' as a disorder ? if so...in what capacity ??

a tip /// if the social sec admin doesnt feel its grounds for a SSI claim. then it probably isnt legit....

- newly diagosed aspie

MISS-DIAGNOSED

Atypical Asperger's comes under PDD-NOS.

Atypical Asperger's is for those who lack certain things of AS, but have the rest of it, in addition to the impairment in functioning due to the symptoms they have. This is being quite pedantic though.

It's also possible that people may actually have Schizoid PD if they don't have problems with nonverbal cues, but the social isolation and obsessive interest is there (Schizoid PD isn't as disabling though).