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I watched the first 5 minutes or so and a lot of it seems highly relatable such as the cheerful disposition, the jerky motion of switching from one thing to another as it's like "oh!yeah I need to do that first"without actually saying it, and even the little inserted comments such as the one about the hinges not being to scale and comparing them to the paper. I think you have found a pretty accurate comparison of my natural personality. In my case, I get to talking really loud and fast too of really excited and I have one of those faces that can make a lot of faces (think of someone like Jim Carrey) so if I have trouble lifting something, it doesn't work out, ECT I may make some silly faces for comedic effect as well. It is also common for me to giggle somewhat frequently and my Mama used to call me her "giggle box". I can have enthusiasm about a wide range of things from a favorite subject to it started snowing to seeing a new variety of insect to figuring out how something mechanical works to trying a new food to getting to have a conversation with a new potential friend (even if it didn't turn out in the end that they wanted to be). I do dig deeply into special interests but the special interests shift from one thing to another though several of them have continuously recycled back around frequently ever since childhood.
Perhaps there is variation from this as well, but when I have read about female aspies presentation it involved a lot of masking as the reason for being potentially more "outgoing". I naturally made eye contact, shared information I learned with others, played with other children. My original oddities were things like not sitting still, constantly talking whether to family or strangers, a need to know how everything worked, science experiments that were typically quite spur of the moment and random as an idea popped into my head. Is this relatable? (Question intended for all the female aspies on the forum )
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@RemyZee I've been looking into your mention of PDD-NOS. Basically it was a condition that was a catch all for people who met a lot of Autism and/or Asperger's criteria but didn't quite meet enough to be diagnosed with either. Some people with PDD-NOS are now included under ASD. Others who meet the social deficits part but not enough else are considered to have another condition. I believe it was called Social Communication Disorder. Those who did not have social deficits but had a lot of other autistic traits, simply don't fit diagnostic criteria now. I think that is where I probably fit. I would have likely had enough other autistic features such as obsessive interests and sensory issues for a PDD-NOS diagnosis back in the day but it no longer exists and since the social deficits part is where I was lacking symptoms, I don't see myself fitting current criteria. Which means that my psychiatrist 's first impression was right when she said she thought my diagnosis would be "ADHD with Autistic Features".
