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What I want to know is if the fact that I can't seem to make myself eat oranges when it isn't daylight is Aspergers or me being weird.
Maybe this is just me, I'm not too high on the spectrum (like 2,3 out of 10? or so I've been told) but background noise is SO LOUD
I work in an office and my concentration when slightly unfocussed is almost non-existant.. like I' hear someone dropping there pen, someone coughing, someone typing, someone discussing something with another colleague.. it's not that loud just amazingly distracting.
Imagine like an amazingly loud drill while you're trying to do your homework.. that's the only way I can explain it!
SO irritating when I'm interested in something or I can't focus on something because my colleague is on the phone (not there fault)..
Recently I thought about a few things that struck me as "might be ASD related". Especially cause a friend of mine who recently got his diagnosis as well, told me last year (way before any of us had an official Dx), he's having problems with such things.
A lot of stuff does go back to childhood and such;
- I couldn't read a analog clock till at least my late teens/early 20's. I just didn't comprehend the long and short arm on the thing. As a kid I therefore always had digital clocks.
- Until after my 10th year, I couldn't tie my shoelaces. I always had shoes with a velcro, and in a way it made me feel weird cause I thought people made fun of me still having such shoes. Than my parents got upset, and they told me I had to learn it. They'd show me the 2 ways it's done in general, and I had to practice for an afternoon. I still didn't get it. However;
I developed a own method, which made more sense to me, and I even learned that aspie friend of mine that, cause he told me he was still having problems with laces at 27 years of age. That method worked for him as well.- I had big difficulties with subtraction in elementery. They used this method where you had to put the numbers below eachother, and just subtract single digits and carry over what's left and such, like this (cause I don't know if I'm explaining it clearly);
As a result of not understand a lot of division as well, as that came down to subtraction.437
358 -
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79
But I usually just picked the "easiest" way and didn't comprehend how to carry over numbers. So back then I'd say it's 121.
The biggest problem was, that I had to use these methods, and was graded on the method, not neccesarily on the results. That went horrible back then. However, later on, when I was more free to do them however I liked, I did them ok.- When I had drawing classes in elementary I was either occupied with coloring or drawing. I could draw something that needed coloring. So I got a lot of bad grades where the teacher wrote "use more color" on my reportcards. The idea of doing lines and not doing shades of grey with a pencil didn't really work out in my mind.
- And handwriting, that was a big mess as well. And somewhat still is. Now I blame typing more, but back then... I remember having this workbook and you had to write a single letter and reproduce it over and over. I could write pages without having 2 look the same. (and now, I still hate repetition, which is why in my handwriting I might use 3 different A's in a single word)
- Until after my 10th year, I couldn't tie my shoelaces. I always had shoes with a velcro, and in a way it made me feel weird cause I thought people made fun of me still having such shoes. Than my parents got upset, and they told me I had to learn it. They'd show me the 2 ways it's done in general, and I had to practice for an afternoon. I still didn't get it.
- When I had drawing classes in elementary I was either occupied with coloring or drawing. I could draw something that needed coloring. So I got a lot of bad grades where the teacher wrote "use more color" on my reportcards. The idea of doing lines and not doing shades of grey with a pencil didn't really work out in my mind.
- And handwriting, that was a big mess as well. And somewhat still is. Now I blame typing more, but back then... I remember having this workbook and you had to write a single letter and reproduce it over and over. I could write pages without having 2 look the same. (and now, I still hate repetition, which is why in my handwriting I might use 3 different A's in a single word)
Can you give an example of the sort of things that you hear?
When I worked at a pizza store there was a beep that would go off whenever the front door was opened. After a couple of months I began hearing the beeping when there wasn't anyone at the front. I would be in the back talking to a co-worker and stop mid conversation and walk to the front of the store all prepared to take someone's order but find an empty lobby. My entire time working there no other employees had the same problem.
Definately this! I can quite easily make fun of something, a witty remark etc but most of the time actual jokes are met with a blank stare and the same goes for 80% of the time I don't get other people's jokes. Example my husband and I were watching the tv series OZ and at the end of that episode I said I expected the guy to kill him not just beat him up, I thought he'd kill him and he'd get the chair, here is the conversation from that point onNo one laughs at my jokes anyways so I may as well have no audience.
Is this typical: to transition from being an honor roll student in elementary school, to having difficulty in the later grades?
Anyone else mix up related/semi-related words often? I do all the time. Words I most commonly mix up, that I can think of at the top of my head, are "curtains" and "blinds". That's always bugged me a lot. Whenever I say that, someone corrects me and probably thinks I'm too stupid to know the difference between blinds and curtains.
I know for sure that this isn't just an ASD thing. But it's perhaps more common of a problem in people on the spectrum than in those who aren't.
Anyone else mix up related/semi-related words often? I do all the time. Words I most commonly mix up, that I can think of at the top of my head, are "curtains" and "blinds". That's always bugged me a lot. Whenever I say that, someone corrects me and probably thinks I'm too stupid to know the difference between blinds and curtains.
I know for sure that this isn't just an ASD thing. But it's perhaps more common of a problem in people on the spectrum than in those who aren't.
[* said:And handwriting, that was a big mess as well. And somewhat still is. Now I blame typing more, but back then... I remember having this workbook and you had to write a single letter and reproduce it over and over. I could write pages without having 2 look the same. (and now, I still hate repetition, which is why in my handwriting I might use 3 different A's in a single word)
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This, My hand writing isn't very good. I find it painful to write for too long as I put far too much pressure on a pen or pencil.
Really struggle with grammar, sentences and paragraphs it sounds silly but I can't visualize when to put a full stop.. I write how my brain talks and speaks.
This, My hand writing isn't very good. I find it painful to write for too long as I put far too much pressure on a pen or pencil.
Really struggle with grammar, sentences and paragraphs it sounds silly but I can't visualize when to put a full stop.. I write how my brain talks and speaks.
I also have issues writing with a pen/pencil. My fingers and hand hurts after a while and my handwriting quality is poor. I have no problems with grammar/paragraphs/spelling though.
I apologize for asking this but...
Is it just me, but is it the "typical" for one with Asperger's to be "strong", "brave", and "stable" during the death of a love one?
I am not trying to troll or pick at people. I just believe I am not grieving right.
I really loved this relative that died and was close, but I am the "brave" one during this time.
Im the same.
I would have massive problems if the pen or pencil wasnt the right texture, for a pencil, or smoothness with a pen. Ive also been told I hold my pens a bit weird and could never hold it properly when i learned how to write. Also told i have very unfeminine handwriting, whatever that means, but its never considered bad, though. Most people actually find it weirdly neat.
This is probably gonna be me alone I am certain but;
I can usually find the pros and cons in every situation, if I am faced with the worst case scenario I can easily find something redemptive about it.
Conversely if there is a perfect scenario, a too good to be true type situation, I am the first to pick holes and spot the rotten core, now, is this me? Pessimism/ optimism or ASD related?