What is the most distinctive symptom of a person with Asperger's?

One telltale sign of Asperger's syndrome is having difficulty in social situations. Common symptoms of Asperger's that may impact social interaction or communication include: Problems making or maintaining friendships. Isolation or minimal interaction in social situations.
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What are the 3 main symptoms of Aspergers?

What are the Symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome?
  • Inappropriate or minimal social interactions.
  • Conversations that almost always revolve around themselves or a certain topic, rather than others.
  • Not understanding emotions well or having less facial expression than others.
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What are the symptoms of high functioning Asperger's?

High Functioning Autism Symptoms
  • Emotional Sensitivity.
  • Fixation on Particular Subjects or Ideas.
  • Linguistic Oddities.
  • Social Difficulties.
  • Problems Processing Physical Sensations.
  • Devotion to Routines.
  • Development of Repetitive or Restrictive Habits.
  • Dislike of Change.
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How do you tell if someone has Aspergers?

Signs and symptoms of Asperger's syndrome
  1. Lack of interpersonal relationship skills and instincts.
  2. Inability to express one's own feelings.
  3. Often verbalizes internal thoughts that most would keep private.
  4. Flat tone / speaking style that lacks pitch.
  5. Appears to lack empathy.
  6. Has a difficult time interacting with peers.
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What Aspergers looks like in adults?

Adults with Asperger's syndrome may experience symptoms such as: awkward social interactions. difficulty talking with others. an inability to interpret nonverbal behaviors in others.
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How does Asperger's affect relationships?

Adults with Asperger's syndrome often have difficulties with initiating, maintaining and ending a conversation, and show a lack of reciprocity or conversational balance and a tendency to be pedantic with excessive and tedious detail (Attwood 2006).
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What are the characteristics of high functioning Aspergers in adults?

Adults with Asperger's: How they struggle, how they thrive
  • Hypersensitivities (to lights, sounds, tastes, etc.)
  • Difficulty with the give and take of conversation.
  • Difficulty with nonverbal conversation skills (distance, loudness, tone, etc.)
  • Uncoordinated movements or clumsiness.
  • Anxiety and depression.
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Can Aspergers have empathy?

People with Asperger profiles do have empathy, despite an unfortunate stigma that suggests otherwise. In fact, in a recent study published in Nature's Scientific Reports, social neuroscience researcher Dr.
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What does mild Aspergers look like?

displays unusual nonverbal communication, such as lack of eye contact, few facial expressions, or awkward body postures and gestures. does not empathize with or seems insensitive to others' feelings and has a hard time “reading” other people or may have difficulty understanding humor.
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Are people with Aspergers smart?

When you meet someone who has Asperger's syndrome, you might notice two things right off. They're just as smart as other folks, but they have more trouble with social skills. They also tend to have an obsessive focus on one topic or perform the same behaviors again and again.
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Do adults with Aspergers have anger issues?

In addition to difficulties with understanding emotions, individuals with ASDs may become angry quickly and may have difficulty calming themselves effectively. They often need to be taught skills to cope with an increase in irritability once they have been able to identify these emotions.
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What is an Asperger's meltdown?

A meltdown is where a person with autism or Asperger's temporarily loses control because of emotional responses to environmental factors. They aren't usually caused by one specific thing. Triggers build up until the person becomes so overwhelmed that they can't take in any more information.
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Do aspies cry?

Angry outbursts or crying fits may erupt when an Aspie's emotional reservoir overflows. Perhaps in part because Aspies cannot easily access our emotions, we cannot easily regulate them.
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What is it like being married to someone with Asperger's?

NT spouses can often experience their own mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, affective deprivation disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, as a result of being in a relationship with an undiagnosed and untreated partner with AS for an extended period of time.
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What personality type are Aspergers?

Asperger brains (some call it ASD level 1 or 2) are autistics without a cognitive disability and, like many autistics, have a lot more going on processing our senses, which make colours, sounds, smells and feelings seem brighter, louder and stronger than for Neurotypical (NT).
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What should you not say to someone with Aspergers?

5 things to NEVER say to someone with Autism:
  • “Don't worry, everyone's a little Autistic.” No. ...
  • “You must be like Rainman or something.” Here we go again… not everyone on the spectrum is a genius. ...
  • “Do you take medication for that?” This breaks my heart every time I hear it. ...
  • “I have social issues too. ...
  • “You seem so normal!
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How does an Asperger's mind work?

One popular theory is that people with Asperger's syndrome and other autistic disorders lack a "theory of mind" — the intuitive understanding that others have their own thoughts and feelings. As a result, they cannot imagine their way into the minds of others to anticipate their responses.
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What do adults with Aspergers struggle with?

Asperger's in adults typically causes issues with communication, emotion regulation and interpretation, social interactions, and behavior. People who have Asperger's may also experience other conditions, such as depression, anxiety, or OCD.
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Are people with Aspergers detached?

People with Asperger's can be very good in certain crisis situations because their initial emotional detachment allows them to properly respond.
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What geniuses have Aspergers?

  • Lizzy Clark - actress and campaigner.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Classical Composer.
  • Ulysse Delsaux & Cody Ware - Racecar drivers (C)
  • Sir Isaac Newton – Mathematician, Astronomer, & Physicist.
  • Carl Sagan - Astronomer (C)
  • Jerry Seinfeld – Comedian.
  • Satoshi Tajiri – Creator of Nintendo's Pokémon (C)
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How do you calm down someone with Aspergers?

What to do
  1. Give them some time - it can take a while to recover from information or sensory overload.
  2. Calmly ask them (or their parent or friend) if they're OK, but bear in mind they'll need more time to respond than you might expect.
  3. Make space - try to create a quiet, safe space as best you can.
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Can stress make Aspergers worse?

Asperger syndrome: triggering factors

If there are deviations from rules or if they have been introduced to new people, many people with Asperger's experience stress. This stress makes it so that their symptoms get worse or that they do not know what to do with themselves and therefore get angry.
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What happens if Aspergers goes untreated?

Some of the effects of unaddressed or untreated Asperger's syndrome may include: Social isolation. Difficulty making and keeping friends. Challenges in finding and maintaining steady employment.
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Do Aspergers hold grudges?

Difficulty regulating emotions and anxiety, such as, being quick to anger, easily offended and upset, displaying tantrums and sulking. brooding and holding grudges over small incidents, often for extended periods.
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Are Aspergers good at maths?

This was confirmed in one 2007 meta-study finding that the majority of participants with Asperger's or high-functioning autism performed no better than average on math skills tests.
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