What is the primary element of Asperger's?

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I think it's being more "in your head" and less concerned with the outside world. NT people are more in tune with what's going on outside and care more about what people think etc while AS people are stuck more in their thoughts, and for that reason are highly into creativity etc but not as good at social interaction.

gosh, if i were to be able to delete the primary elemental aspergian things from my being, i'd be a totally different person, probably a lot more like my NT sister. i'd be level-headed, intelligent, outgoing, educated and accomplished. i am only speaking for myself.
i would eliminate:

*social and physical clumsiness
*perseveration
*dysfunctional executive functioning
*inability to quickly shift attention from one thing to another
*narrow, defective thinking processes
*maladaptivity in general

I'd say it's about 80% environmental factors. The way we were raised, exposure to certain elements, etc.

It is genetic.

ruveyn

I'm in my own little world, most of the time, and that's a good thing. I don't miss out on much.

The primary element in Asperger's is clearly Aspergonium. This was an element previously undiscovered by Mendeleev or Lothar Meyer. Hans Asperger first caught wind of it some time ago, but it was not recognized for serious study until the early '90s. It fits somewhere between Helium and Argon. I think it's elemental weight is 10.5 or something weird like that.

For me it is almost entirely summed up by the "wrong planet syndrome." Since I was about nine, I was acutely aware of feeling as if I were quite different from everyone else on a basic cognitive level. Others did things in a ways I did not fully understand and could not precisely imitate. I felt out of synch from my peers and lacked some kind of warm, social connection. The world I live in seems fundamentally different than the world in which everyone around me lives.

As these things are purely subjective, it is sometimes very difficult to observe it in behavior, although the criteria Auntblabby listed come close to giving NTs an idea of what is going on.

Some form of weirdness that makes you feel permanently alienated (partially or totally) from the outside/physical/material world.

primary element: processing information differently in your brain

lol @ Vipera.

Being more "in your head" and less concerned with the outside world....introversion...hmm, guess I must have AS!

Interesting responses...I would've guessed people would mention sensory issues, hyperfocus, & maybe perseveration the most.

Wait...are we supposed to interpret the question as referring to negative traits? I thought the OP was just asking what we thought was particularly characteristic of the spectrum, whether for better or worse. ::shrug:: Would your answers differ, for these two questions?