basically, i am wondering if i have "symptoms" of

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i enjoy some social situations, although i find most of them stressful.
i am either very quiet or extremely hyper, and i feel that both types of behavior are acts or facades.
i have no trouble reading social cues, and i am moderately popular in my own crowd, but i find reacting appropriately difficult sometimes.
i have been told that i am extremely intelligent, although i don't really agree. i seem to think about things from a very analytical perspective.
i have a sort of running commentary in my head, like a voice talking about me in the third person and describing everything i do and think.
my emotional self seems to be incompatible with my intellectual self.
i used to be controlled by odd obsessions. although i have learned to break free of them much faster than i did before, i still focus on certain questions or ideas or situations for days at a time.

I'm almost exactly the same. You could have AS, I guess...

I've always enjoyed parties, gigs and hanging out with people (So do a lot of us), but I'm seriously Aspie... It's a job for professionals to give diagnoses, but I thinks there's a chance your in our club... Check out some of the self diagnostic tests from Cambridge University ( www.autismresearchcentre.com )

thank you, i will do that.

well, on a test of 50 questions, i scored 25. apparently, the average person scores 16, while the average person with asperger's scores 32. so i am smack in the middle.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publicat ... rder.shtml

Sounds like borderline to me...

borderline personality disorder is not Asperger's Syndrome

I know that, I was saying that with just those symptoms it sounds like borderline, not AS.

I scored 41 on the Autism Quotient test by Simon Baron-Cohen, myself.

I was diagnosed in person by prof b-c & dr j-r. They actual assessment took nearly 3hours, plus i filled in 2 long questionaires and they interview one of my family... It's a complicated procedure that isn't accurately replicated by a simple self assessment. Do a little more digging on the net - stick to mainstream sources. try www.researchautism.net (Bristol University) and www.autism.org.uk (National Autistic Society). I doubt if you have a personality disorder...

thanks. i am perfectly fine with the idea of having asperger's. a personality disorder on the other hand, would be a little hard to take.

Oh.

When I took that test I understood that 32 is the start of the autism spectrum and therefore Asperger's comes somewhere higher than that. 16.4 is the average NT score. I don't think I'm strongly Aspergian and scored 36.

I wouldn't have said that 25 is on the autism spectrum. I could be wrong, though....

I don't understand... Really there is no such thing as an 'NT' each person in the world fits under at least one personality 'disorder' it's just a silly little label. Kinda like a way to explain why you behave the way you do. In your post you didn't discribe aspie traits, a little social phobia and self doubts, along with a talkitive brain ((I've got a talking brain too, don't worry)). But you can read social cues, you don't have the same quirks, and besides a bit of compulson you don't have the nature to become completely obsessed with things. It all seems very normal to me. Then aain I only read a paragraph about you and am not a health professional, so I don't really know.

thanks everyone for replying.

Check out the AS page on Wikipedia. It's quite extensive. As I read it, the whole mystery, that my life was to me, came together. I was going to say that if you check it out and then still feel inconclusive about having AS or not, you probably don't have it. However, I might just be forgetting something else that also helped me understand.

That was where I learned about Asperger's Syndrome, myself. Some lady on a politics forum (I love politics) stated in passing that she had Asperger's Syndrome and being curious, I typed it into Wikipedia. Of course, that was in 2005 and the page was less extensive than it is now. However, it gave me that 'a ha' moment that you yourself describe.