You should probably consider getting the book I mentioned, as it contains a whole list of real, detailed stories about what people with strong AS tend to do that is particularly distinctive.
I found these stories helpful, in that they outlined very specific behaviors that distinguished strong AS from mild nerdiness.
I found that I could relate to a significant number of these examples, but not all of them, and most of them were more extreme than what I had personally done, making me think that I am exactly on the boundary.
Thanks for the suggestion. I read all the pages available through Amazon’s “look inside” feature, and also read Wikipedia on Asperger’s and Autism, as well as browsed around on a couple of Aspie support sites.
I’m even less convinced now that I might actually have Asperger’s or Autism—for example, I have no trouble with metaphor or figurative language, I am very good at reading other people and subtle social cues (just can’t do them myself), I’ve never had an obsession like collecting stamps or date calculating, I wasn’t bullied ever and didn’t have trouble understanding other children, etc. -- but I’m still puzzled by my high score. I think that perhaps extreme shyness and some anxiety issues, combined with having an intellectual bent in a world of mostly non-intellectuals, probably account for a good part of it.
You should probably consider getting the book I mentioned, as it contains a whole list of real, detailed stories about what people with strong AS tend to do that is particularly distinctive.
I found these stories helpful, in that they outlined very specific behaviors that distinguished strong AS from mild nerdiness.
I found that I could relate to a significant number of these examples, but not all of them, and most of them were more extreme than what I had personally done, making me think that I am exactly on the boundary.
Thanks for the suggestion. I read all the pages available through Amazon’s “look inside” feature, and also read Wikipedia on Asperger’s and Autism, as well as browsed around on a couple of Aspie support sites.
I’m even less convinced now that I might actually have Asperger’s or Autism—for example, I have no trouble with metaphor or figurative language, I am very good at reading other people and subtle social cues (just can’t do them myself), I’ve never had an obsession like collecting stamps or date calculating, I wasn’t bullied ever and didn’t have trouble understanding other children, etc. -- but I’m still puzzled by my high score. I think that perhaps extreme shyness and some anxiety issues, combined with having an intellectual bent in a world of mostly non-intellectuals, probably account for a good part of it.