Is there such a thing as having super mild asperger's?

Welcome to the Normal People's Club. See all those buffoons sharing cat photos on FB or arguing over gun rights; those people watching hours worth of the same television series in one setting. THEY ARE THE WEIRD ONES. People like us used to be the majority; the human race (especially in N America) is dumber than a door knob these days.

Short answer (via my sister, a PhD): Yes. Asperger's and autism are diagnosed by looking at symptoms, and diagnoses are imprecise. Essentially, we're just putting a label on a set of observable behaviors. Obviously, behavior falls on a continuum, so not only is there no easy way to decide what counts as asperger's and what doesn't, there's also no real principled reason to make a major distinction between behavior that falls just on one side of the arbitrary line and behavior that doesn't. The most important question is whether your behavior has negative consequences.

your post could have been written by me. I have never considered it unusual just to keep to myself most of the time. Maybe you should take some people hiking or running with you occasionally.

Some more information: no one else in my family is like this. I am very different from them. My mother also was also 34 when she had me, and autism rates start to skyrocket around the age of 35 for women. It sure would explain a lot. I wish I knew more about this. I am hesitant to call myself even ever so-slightly autistic because I'm pretty normal in a lot of ways. I'm just very content to be by myself and am relatively obsessed with knowledge and learning. I actually seriously tried to figure out a way to live in the woods by myself and be self-sustaining and just read and write in my spare time.

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Some more information: no one else in my family is like this. I am very different from them. My mother also was also 34 when she had me, and autism rates start to skyrocket around the age of 35 for women. It sure would explain a lot. I wish I knew more about this. I am hesitant to call myself even ever so-slightly autistic because I'm pretty normal in a lot of ways. I'm just very content to be by myself and am relatively obsessed with knowledge and learning. I actually seriously tried to figure out a way to live in the woods by myself and be self-sustaining and just read and write in my spare time.

Judging from what you say about being and trying to be alone I guess you'll just have to talk yourself into getting the rare Aspburger.

yes, it sounds like you may be one of the lucky ones who can actually see things differently and make an impact on the world.

as stated in an earlier post, you may fall somewhere on the spectrum.

do you know if you walked a bit odd when you were very young? at what age did you begin to talk?

1) Yes. It's call the autism SPECTRUM for a reason. Think rainbow, or pianoforte.

2) You probably are not on the spectrum--what you describe is typical INTJ behavior; the "I'm actually pretty good at socializing and being normal, getting people to like me and conversing with friends and strangers alike. But I don't really enjoy it most of the time." speaks to INTJ, not INTJ + mild autism.

"I'm an INTJ"

There's your answer. Rest of the post is redundant. But then I'm also an INTJ, so I would think that.

I don't think autodidacticism and periodic asociality are signs of a disease (they're just life for me, too), and neither does sane psychology (nothing should be considered a mental illness unless it causes you distress, interferes with your life, makes you a danger to yourself or others, or something like that) but institutions that stigmatize independent thought, like schools, may see it differently.

I seem to remember someone posting a link a short internet version of that briggs test and a lot tested introverted.

FlyKnitKit wrote:

Welcome to the Normal People's Club. See all those buffoons sharing cat photos on FB or arguing over gun rights; those people watching hours worth of the same television series in one setting. THEY ARE THE WEIRD ONES. People like us used to be the majority; the human race (especially in N America) is dumber than a door knob these days.

This is kinda true. But, remember, before television, it is not like all people could afford books or schooling.

You're not alone my brother...even though you'd rather be *zing*

I've been told a good number of times that my fantastic interviewing and social skills were the primary reasons for achieving various positions. But, I still spend and prefer to spend just about all of my free time by myself

Are you a clone of me?

Asperger's mainly refers to small tics that some people just can't get right in social situations. My brother has a form of it and he's a great guy, it's just little tiny things that he misses in social communication that can make things a little awkward. If you can communicate with people or at least understand what it takes to communicate with them, then you don't have aspergers.

I would really recommend not caring about what society thinks, as you will find it doesn't really make a difference at the end of the day. There are some things you should take into consideration such as hygiene and how you present yourself, but you shouldn't change your character just because it "seems" abnormal. As long as no one is getting annoyed, harmed or being impacted negatively from your behavior I wouldn't worry about it.

Interesting that you seek out the opinion of others on this subject.

Aspergers is a disorder, you seem to be describing more of a personality style/perference versus a disorder.

By the way the Aspergers classification will be dropped in DSM5.

Question - Do you miss female companionship/sex?

One of my friends has mild aspergers. If you have a one off conversation with her you might not be able to tell but if you spend any length of time with her you can definitely notice. I pretty much agree that if you are good at having conversations etc (but just have no interest in it) that's unlikely to be any form of autism.