So those terms must be really confusing to everybody I know, they were to me first when I found out I had it. Now if you remember from my last post, I didn't find out until I was 21 years old that I had Asperger's Syndrome. There is apart of me that wishes I would have found out much sooner because there definitely would of been some things I said or actions I did I would love to change, but that will not happen and I am just going to move on and live my life now. With that said, let me us myself as an example to explain what Asperger's Syndrome is. I will start with the social interaction piece. I don't like interacting with people that I don't know. If I am at a party or event, I will not come up to a stranger or even somebody I met probably once at all. Same thing goes with talking on the phone, I dislike talking on the phone so typically won't answer a call. Now if I know the person who is calling me then it depends on my moody, but if it is a number that I don't know then it goes straight to voicemail. Now when it comes to nonverbal communication or cues from people, I don't get them at all unless they are extremely noticeable. Sometimes I laugh at a joke because everybody else in the group is laughing. Now when it comes to my patterns, I do the same thing over and over again. When I was younger, I would wake up and get the newspaper off the front porch and read the sports page first thing, I eat my food the same way, I dress in the same color and patterns and so forth. I do have a limited range of interests. My life revolves around sports, mainly basketball and following the Gonzaga Women's Basketball Team, but there is also reading and dissecting sports statistics. So this will bring me to the skilled and talented piece. I am really good with analyzing sports statistics and mathematics. Then finally, I can have a loud voice and don't even notice when it goes up. Now some other examples of people who have Asperger's Syndrome are Bill Gates, Shelton from The Big Bang Theory, and Max from Parenthood.
Now there are different levels of Asperger's Syndrome. That is why it is a spectrum disorder. I am considered high-functioning. I can hold done a job, live on my own, and so forth. There are people who have Asperger's that can't do that or have a difficult time doing it.
So there you have it. This is just one opinion on what Asperger's Syndrome. The rest of my posts will be on how I live my life with Asperger's Syndrome. I hope you stay tuned for more posts.
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