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✔ Qualitative impairment in social interaction – I’ve been behind socially for most of my developing years
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✔ Restricted patterns of behavior, activities, and interests – Gf has complained that I can’t seem to do things in moderation, I’m either fully into doing something constantly/often or I’m not
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✔ Repetitive motor behaviors – Yes, leg movement, fidgeting..
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✔ Auditory perception deficits – Yes, I sometimes don’t process speech as quickly as I hear it
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✔ Many children with AS are initially misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – was almost me
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✔ Physical clumsiness – I do tend to be somewhat
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✔ Lack of interest in fiction and a positive preference towards non-fiction
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✔ No clinically significant delay in cognitive development or general delay in language – Nope, I’m fine there
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✔ Sophisticated vocabulary at a young age
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✔ Single-mindedness
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✔ Can spend hours in the library researching, loves learning and information – or Wikipedia
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✔ May have difficulty staying in college despite a high level of intelligence
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~ Being “in their own world” / Preoccupied with their own agenda – Somewhat
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~ Sleep problems – Had in the past, but not now
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~ Oddities in loudness, pitch, intonation, and rhythm, poor prosody, and tangential and circumstantial speech – If I’m impaired here, it’s not much
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~ Impaired nonverbal behaviors in areas such as eye contact, facial expression, posture, and gesture – Posture and maybe eye contact
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? Literal interpretations and miscomprehension of nuance, ? unusually pedantic, formal or idiosyncratic speech – Not sure
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✘ One-sided verbosity, ✘ abrupt transitions, ✘ use of metaphor meaningful only to the speaker – Not really
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✘ Failure to seek shared enjoyments or achievements with others – No, I do this just fine
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✘ Lack of social or emotional reciprocity
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✘ Difficulty understanding figurative language; weaknesses in humor, irony, teasing, and sarcasm; impaired humor appreciation – I don’t think so
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✘ Enhanced perception of small changes in patterns such as arrangements of objects or well-known images
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✘ Difficulty in identifying and describing one’s emotions
