[courses]

[QUOTE=Jarvio;6339980]

Originally Posted by qwerty8883

I also have really bad obsessional tendencies. Like, really bad. Cleaning my teeth for example takes forever as I'm unusually careful about it. I hate being the last person out of my house because that means I have to lock the door, in which I check it's locked like 20 times.
Even watching DVDs is a chore - I constantly have to rewind them because my mind trails off and I don't understand things. Putting them back in the case is horrible because I constantly have to take them out again to re-check that I've not damaged them.

Is that part of AS? I recognise that in myself as part of my OCD...

[Jarvio]

[QUOTE=courses;6340054]

Originally Posted by Jarvio

Is that part of AS? I recognise that in myself as part of my OCD...

Well it can probably be interlinked I suspect? I was told that many people with ASD are very obsessional.

[courses]

[QUOTE=Jarvio;6340056]

Originally Posted by courses

Well it can probably be interlinked I suspect? I was told that many people with ASD are very obsessional.

Do you mean obsessions with certain things? i.e. my cousin knows everything there is to know about planes and it's all he talks about. But that doesn't account for the compulsion side of it like checking the door 20 times. Hmm. I'd always thought OCD was very separate to AS because of that.

[Blue Cadillac]

[QUOTE=courses;6340071]

Originally Posted by Jarvio

Do you mean obsessions with certain things? i.e. my cousin knows everything there is to know about planes and it's all he talks about. But that doesn't account for the compulsion side of it like checking the door 20 times. Hmm. I'd always thought OCD was very separate to AS because of that.

I am certain the two can be interlinked, and often are.

[courses]

[QUOTE=Blue Cadillac;6340073]

Originally Posted by courses

I am certain the two can be interlinked, and often are.

Oh really I didn't know that. Explains a lot!

Originally Posted by parmnion

I'm getting on in years and live with someone who's son has aspergers. She thinks I may have it because i say some innapropriate things..i told her to **** off.

Haha!

[Jarvio]

[QUOTE=Blue Cadillac;6340073]

Originally Posted by courses

I am certain the two can be interlinked, and often are.

Yep, that's what the doctor who diagnosed me said too.

Many conditions are often interlinked.
This is kind of what I'm saying - ASDs are very broad, and the symptoms are not the same for everyone.

Another characteristic of myself that I forgot to mention is that I need everything to be set/in a routine, and if there's any change it will freak me out. Short-notice plans stress me no end, and things cannot be left unresolved in my mind or I can't function until they are.

[Beso]

[QUOTE=Jarvio;6340088]

Originally Posted by Blue Cadillac

Yep, that's what the doctor who diagnosed me said too.

Many conditions are often interlinked.

Another characteristic of myself that I forgot to mention is that I need everything to be set/on a routine, and if there's any change it will freak me out. Short-notice plans stress me no end, and things cannot be left unresolved in my mind or I can't function until they are.

sarcasm can be a bugger as well..you'll get round it pal, you come across so well on here..hats of to you for being so open with us..you're a good lad.

[Jarvio]

[QUOTE=parmnion;6340094]

Originally Posted by Jarvio

sarcasm can be a bugger as well..you'll get round it pal, you come across so well on here..hats of to you for being so open with us..you're a good lad.

Thanks that means a lot

Sarcasm depends with me really - sometimes I get it, sometimes I don't. I guess it depends how obvious it is