What is Asperger Syndrome.

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Soooooo much of that describes DD#1, although she's not extreme. We argue a lot because I really can't understand the world from her point of view, although she's getting old enough now that she is just starting to express the world as she sees it. Eyebrow raising stuff. She won't look people in the eye because it "makes her feel weird" or "makes her head hurt". She stands behind me to talk to me as a preference which drives me bonkers. She arranges things into patterns constantly because it "makes things look prettier".

She has an amazingly high pain threshold and can do things to herself I wouldn't dream of - not drinking to the point of dehydration, not eating, biting the ends of her fingers off - and that's before all the accidental stuff she doesn't even notice.

I still don't have a diagnoisis although they've recognised she fits a lot of the criteria because the ped wants an educational assessment and IQ test before moving on and we don't have the cash for it right now. Diagnosis is apparently a very slow process.

Edit: and OMG, the rote memory! She remembers verbatim things from ages ago but never simple things like "close doors" (mainly because she seems immune to temperature variation and can't actually tell it is 18 inside and 5 outside and the door should be closed). She just discovered the internet and she'd MEMORISED every URL ever shown at the end of any of the kids shows she'd watched this year. And visited them all and played games on all of them and blew about a gig of download limit this weekend