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