Outgoing people with AS

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My DD has been diagnosed with PDD-NOS. She is almost 5 1/5 and about to start kindergarten in a class for children with high functioning autism. Some people have said she will probably wind up with an Aspergers diagnosis one day. She has pretty bad sensory issues and gets very hyper and cannot self regulate. She doesn't have styms but she hums a lot and likes to have something in her hand all the time.
But anyway, for someone who almost never played with other kids a year ago she has become very social. She say's hello and good bye to everyone ( sometimes too friendly ). And has started asking other kids at the playground if they want to play tag or hide and go seek. Great eye contact too. She is described by her teachers as very outgoing.
So I'm wondering how many of you that have AS or autism also had pretty outgoing personalities and how do you think it effected you socially? I know right now with my DD that she likes other kids so much that she starts to get really hyper around them. And that while she is very good at outdoor running games, and group games, with lots of laughter etc, she has a harder time sitting and playing a board game or a game that includes taking turns with other kids.
TIA!

I'm probably the least outgoing person you'll ever meet. I always have been, and I probably always will be that way.

Interesting. Well I am NT and I'm pretty shy. I can make small talk easily and I'm friendly but not in big groups of people. I was a very shy child. So much shyer than my DD.

As a child, I was outgoing with everyone. I was very "in your face," and I was overly affectionate and would just talk to everyone or hug people I liked all the time without any social boundaries. Ever since late childhood, I've been outgoing only with people I really am close to or really like. When I'm with people I don't know well or don't like, I barely talk and can't wait to be alone and by myself. I find small talk incredibly dull and useless. But when I'm with people I like being around, I'm always talking a mile a minute and often rambling about my special interests. For how it's affected me socially, my whole life, people either tend to be really amused by my quirkiness and overenthusiasm for things and enjoy being around me, or they find me "weird" and are turned off by my personality. But I don't care what people think of me, so I've never tried to stifle my real, true self. I just act like my normal, outgoing self, and if people find me weird, that's their problem.

I went through phases of self imprisonment and being outgoing... I was well liked by all my friends... I developed anxiety at 13 yrs which I took therapy for... most of it is gone now... I connected mostly with kids or people who were much older than me... so people in the same grade were not that close to me most of the time..

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Have met some who were outgoing but still seemed quirky to NT's. They felt comfortable with coming out of themselves to interact and support from others when an interaction didn't go well plus guidance.

I talked to everyone as a kid and always joined in games on the playground if it looked fun. I also used to just go over to someone's house and ring their door bell and ask if their kids can play. That was how I made friends then. I touched and kissed everyone and smelled everyone. But I bet this would make someone borderline AS. But I struggled when they wanted to do chit chat and do things I didn't want to do. I was never good at their house because I had a hard time relating and joining in their fun. For years I couldn't understand why it was so hard until my late teens it dawned on me it may have been the AS. Plus how I used to isolate myself from other kids when I be at other peoples houses when I be babysat or when we go to my dad's friend's and everyone who came to visit, all their kids would be playing together and I'd be playing alone. I seldom played with others but only when they were doing what I liked such as video games. But to me that was normal and a choice I was making.

I wish I could still be that way minus the hugging, kissing and smelling and touching but it doesn't work that way in adulthood so things were easier as a kid.

I am still outgoing sometimes but only with family usually.

I'm not outgoing at all....and I'm glad I'm not. I work with an outgoing Aspie, and she is always talking so much that she comes out with stupid things, and upsets other people, without meaning to. Because I'm quite shy, I give myself time to think before I say things, and I can take in what others are saying and feeling and doing more. No-one seems to like this Aspie at work, but they like me a lot.

I can be very outgoing if im in the mood, but im usually more prone to spending my time alone because I like it that way. But because I have the ability to be outgoing and social I do have a love life, a social life and sports life whenever I want to be a part of that life. Its there if I want it, but a lot of the time i choose not to....Ive been nicknamed "Bro-sama--bin-laden" because im one of the crew but I hide out and nobody knows what im doing for days and weeks at a time.