I have not been diagnosed with AS but I've had a handful of people suggest it as a possibility. Teachers, family members, and a friend of mine with AS. I never asked my psychiatrist even when I was in the hospital because I was too scared of rejection or humiliation.

I have been "diagnosed" (can't be official until age 18) with Social anxiety disorder, adhd, and borderline personality disorder.

Some things about me that some find 'quirky' that might point to AS:
- Extremely obsessed/fixated on a topic for periods of time, it switches randomly. Sometimes lasts a few hours, or days, or months. Sometimes I have a few at a time. Currently fixated on puzzles, police, and ancient egypt. When I'm fixated, I do that thing all the time and get angry if people try to make plans including me, when all I can think about is fulfilling my obsessions with reading, writing, pictures, and activities. I used to talk about police all the time, until people started getting annoyed and asking me why it's all I ever talk about, so now I keep my obsessions to myself.

-Awkward: I've always been socially awkward my whole life. Clumsy around people, my speech is embarrassing, I never approach my friends I wait until they come to me,
If I have knowledge about something and someone asks me a question about it , I freeze up and look like an idiot. Laughing or smiling at inappropriate times.

-No eye contact: This has caused many problems for me. Teachers giving me bad grades for presentations, adults shouting at me to look them in the eye when they are talking, people think I'm not paying attention, etc .

-Strange movements: Constant cracking of knuckles,back,neck,feet,toes, etc.. if I have nothing to do I pace back and forth while silently clapping my hands, sometimes I randomly hit myself in the face, etc.

-Body language: teachers have always wrote my mom about my social skills.. especially body language and eye contact. I don't understand body language and facial expressions. Someone could be telling me something that could be interpreted a different way, and I'll always take it the wrong way because I can't understand the look on faces.

-Habits: compulsively correcting people's spelling and grammar in casual conversations and while teacher is teaching. Things have to be done in fours instead of threes. that's all I can think of right now.

-Memory: Can't remember a conversation I had a few minutes ago, yet can remember very specific dates within the last 8 years, which shocks everybody. I can remember conversations word by word too, and every persons birthday that I ever learned.

-Particularity: clothes in closet must be organized in colours- blue, purple,black,grey,red. Very picky eating- avoiding certain smells and textures.. I won't eat jello,pudding,ice cream, etc. I eat yogurt if it's filled with crunchy granola. I enjoy foods I have to chew. Things must be done 4 times , never 3, and if someone does something 3 times I must correct it .

-Sensory: Loud noises make me quickly shout and jump. Certain noises make me want to rip my head off. I kicked a little girl once at the hospital because she was singing a hannah montana song. I can't stand paper ripping, people whistling, drums, cymbals, sneeze, breathing, chewing, squeaking,clicking. I can't stand lights. I can't wear clothes with tags. Hate jeans. Hate eyeglasses, hate sandpaper and rough/picky textures. etc. I don't touch people and I don't let people touch me.

-Other: I enjoy being by myself. I get easily angered if something is not how I was expecting, etc. I also take things way to literal. Like, people say "don't beat around the bush' and I get confused , wondering how it relates to the conversation, when all I imagine is a drummer running around a bush beating on a drum. Seriously! And people say "two peas in a pod" or "A chip in your shoulder" or "zip it", and I take it the wrong way.


Sorry for the long post. Just need some input, please .. thank you a lot ..