List of Asperger Traits - Part 2

List - Part 2

• Can come out with off the wall comments that can shock or surprise people.
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• Great trouble reading or understanding social cues.
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• Can have a lot of deep heavy feelings going on inside without knowing how to communicate them properly to others. ***
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• Lacking in a sense of humour. Mostly unable to understand jokes - misinterpretation of jokes.
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• A big tendency to keep things to oneself.
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• A high or above average intelligence level with a broad range of general knowledge.
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• Like a big kid socially.
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• Things are often extremely "black and white" or very rigid.
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• Not good at cause and effect.
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• Can quite often have a very blank or confused look in some social situations.
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• Trouble joining in with other people's conversations, perhaps only standing there looking at/or listening to the other people involved in the conversation.
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• A tendancy to use really formal, technical or elaborate language.
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• Hard to understand people leaving, dying, going away, not speaking anymore.
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• Sometimes hard to understand a point of view - it can be like talking to a brick wall.
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• Can be stuck in a timewarp.
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• Can be totally disorganised.
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• May be vulnerable.
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• Can make the same mistakes over and over without learning.
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• Can severely misinterpret things.
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• Little or no understanding of time or numbers.
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• Can be overwhelmed by sensory and information overload and life's pressures.
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• Can be so focussed on one thing that everything else is forgotten.
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• Competitive and wanting to be first.
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• Can be blinkered on a lot of things - waling in a minefield past signs.
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• Great anxiety staying in totally new places, especially overnight.

Thank you Megan Hammond for this list which I have found invaluable. I very much enjoyed the book too which I purchased off Amazon. ISBN 9781741107883

Megan Hammond - My Life With Asperger's.

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List of Aserger's traits - Part 1

I thought I would share this with other females/males who have Asperger's as it really resonated with me, more so even than Tania Marshall and Samantha Craft's lists (brilliant as they are).

It was compiled by a woman called Megan Hammond - My Life with Asperger's, so all credit goes to her. I am merely relating them as they may well help someone, as they did me.

* Please note that I believe that this list applies to many males also as I recognise lots of my own son in this list.

I asterisked the one about having very deep feelings because for me personally, that has been one of the most painful aspects of having this syndrome. A feeling of complete isolation and an inability to connect that feeling to anything or anyone.

The List - Part 1

• The inability to communciate properly with others.
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• Age inappropriate behaviour and actions.
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• Quirky little habits, rituals or ritualistic actions.
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• Repetitive behaviour, obsessive actions, liking repetitive sounds, music or sequences.
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• The inability to adjust to changes in routines.
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• Trouble starting new things, without support or direction.
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• Loner, aloof behaviour which can impair relating to other people.
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• Mostly more comfortable with studying or trying to understand people on television, DVD or through books.
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• Can take things too literally.
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• The inability to judge people's character properly.
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• Obsessive about a few subjects.
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• Dramatically overreact to very simple events that don't upset other people.
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• A tendency to talk "at" people instead of "to people".
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• Can retreat into a private little world when faced with uncomfortable or new situations.