Accelerated Aspies

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I ran into this interesting topic on another site.

Since being dxed, do you find that your behaviour has become more stereotypical aspie/autie than it had been before dx.

I think mine may have - I certainly catch myself at some aspie/autie activity with surprise. However, I must add that since I am sensitive to things such as stimming now that I could simply be noticing how strange has been my behaviour all along.

What about you?

Well, I've been more aware of it, but I've just been doing things like I've been my whole life. I haven't really added any emphasis or the like on my aspie traits.

Yep! It happened to me after I found out I was an Aspie. Not only did I feel more free to stim and use pedantic language instead of trying to "act normal", but I started rocking again--something I haven't done since before I was a teen. An intensification of Aspie traits, as well as the adoption of some minor new ones, seems to be pretty common after a diagnosis, especially if autism becomes a special interest.

Check this out:

Post-Diagnosis Regression

Apparently other people have experienced this phenomenon as well. According to the article (the rest of which is also pretty interesting), the "regression" should fade with time.

I just notice now, it was always there. I read you may be an aspie if.. saw myself a hundred times. Gee, thats aspie? It seems I am aspie down to my slipon shoes.

There are core things, there is a vast personality spread, it shocks me, but Know Thyself has always been me. I have an Armani collection, Lightning88 could be made into two or three girly girls, and the rest wear jeans. Their music would drive me nuts, they like wind chimes?

The data is there to graph the range, someone will get to it. Then we will have as much confusion in a smaller spectrum. I thought WP was adictive, but now I notice how little I have spent on Ebay. Better to spend my time learning.

Mostly the traits have definitely always been there. There are some though that I'm not sure of. There are others that I now want to try (such as climbing - but I have a fear of heights), just to see if there is any great joy in them for me.

I think the answer to this will never be known, because of the concept of Schroedinger's Cat - that which is watched may be changed.
Here's the wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroedinger%27s_cat

Yeah, I do more Aspie/Autie things. I feel less stupid and weird doing the things I want to do, now that I know I'm not the only one.

Slip-on shoes are considered Aspie? My shoes have laces, but I keep them loose enough so that I don't have to untie them to take the shoes on or off. Now that I think of it, however, I haven't met too many people that do that (most people are fine with dealing with laces all the time).

I think my Aspieness might have gotten more noticeable as I began participating in online forums, but I think that might also be because my new college lifestyle is somewhat stressful. I'm not officially diagnosed though, so I don't know if that counts as "Post-Diagnosis Regression".

i wear slip-on shoes...almost exclusively...esp favored are ones I don't need socks with. right now it is Crocs...I think I will end up wearing crocs forever...unless I find a pair of dansko clogs at a thrift store...

Ummm....One of the reasons I don't like it when I go through these "am I an Aspie?" phases is becasue I become more hyper-aware of my alleged"aspie-like" behavior...I am told by my boyfriend that I am a hypochondriac and that the root of my oddness is "low self esteem"...to which I argue that the difficulty my oddness has caused is what has contributed to my low self esteem...
He has kinda shut up about it...since I have told him that I found a whole forum of people who stim and some walk on their toes..and don't recognise faces and have difficulty telling left from right and deeper stuff that I can't properly articulate and Alllll this other stuff that I have been dealing with for as long as I can remember...

but i kinda wish I didn't have to think about it..cause now I am pretty fixated and i hope my fixation is a phase that I will pass out of because there are lots of other things that I ought to be doing.

Yes, it is like taking off a costume I have been forced to wear most of my life. I feel free to be me again.

Yes.... its a freedom, you are no longer 'Bad' or 'Wrong' you are being exactly what you are meant to be... you are able to relax then, and then all the traits you hid in fear inside you are released because its ok now... they can take flight...

let who you are take its wings and fly, you were each made unique and for a purpose... ok we dont know what that is right now, but the purpose remains... dont ever let somone cage you again

Since finding out, I have seen more of my differences and it has helped me understand some of my odd behaviours that seem fine to me, but odd to other people.

The only reason you seem to have more stereotypical traits is because you notice them. Before diagnosis, an autistic does not give a second thought about their behavior. After diagnosis, one realizes how truly autistic they are.
It is quite similar to the autism "epidemic." It is not that more people are autistic, but the ability to diagnosis the condition is very new, so more autistics are being diagnosed.