I have read a lot on Aspergers and I have many of the traits, it makes a lot of sense to me and explains a lot of the feelings I had growing up.
I have always been very awkward socially...not knowing how to act, if I am saying the right thing. Ihave always felt very out of place.
Even at school I had trouble making friends and felt I never fitted in....I was extremely shy and still am.
I avoid many social situations because it leaves me exhausted and doubting myself.
I was forever disappearing into my own world as a child. It was something that did not go unnoticed by my teachers and is on many a report card.
I was kept down in year one because of my lack of social skills...but then skipped year three and caught up to my peers on an educational level.
I very often get caught up in things that I am doing and I put my all into it. If I pull apart a computer I will not rest until I get it all put back together and working.
I am intelligent and am articulate but have a very hard time communicating through writing...my brain works far to fast for my hands and I miss words or write the wrong words and I feel I come across the wrong way.
Some post can take me a long time to write because I have to write and re-write many times.
I am an oddball
I am not sure if I have aspergers but I just know that reading the traits makes me feel like I 'fit in' some where. That there may be a reason I am like I am.