It's weird - looking at the Wiki for autism I would say not; apart from some severe resistance to change at points in my life; and a love of sameness and a little bit of ritualistic behaviour (unlike most people I can do the same thing, eat the same specific meals again and again - pissing off restaurants and takeaways in the process - and not get bored; but weirdly other stuff I can't) but otherwise the other stuff listed no, not as far as I know (although my mother or father never mentioned anything wrong).
Certainly at least a loner with some social phobia (as in I have to sometimes psych myself up before entering a room, or talk to people, sometimes I just don't want to - walking into a room of people I don't know or a place I've not been is hard for me) and depression, maybe slight mania.
I started to wonder about this because of my partner, who is incredibly bright, a classification freak (was making lists and organising his book collection with cards at about 6) but like me seems to have missed something in his social programming, or sometimes like me is being an 'asshole' and doesn't really care for social mores, it's hard to tell sometimes...certainly the extrovert/small talk/social programming seems to have been learned at least in me by mistake and hard work. So I can function more than I could at 17, where I was so shy I would automatically ask people what they thought when asked a question - partly my parents divorce, but maybe something else. But that curious empathetic blindness I get, I dunno where that's from. Sometimes I just miss the cues.
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Certainly at least a loner with some social phobia (as in I have to sometimes psych myself up before entering a room, or talk to people, sometimes I just don't want to - walking into a room of people I don't know or a place I've not been is hard for me) and depression, maybe slight mania.
I started to wonder about this because of my partner, who is incredibly bright, a classification freak (was making lists and organising his book collection with cards at about 6) but like me seems to have missed something in his social programming, or sometimes like me is being an 'asshole' and doesn't really care for social mores, it's hard to tell sometimes...certainly the extrovert/small talk/social programming seems to have been learned at least in me by mistake and hard work. So I can function more than I could at 17, where I was so shy I would automatically ask people what they thought when asked a question - partly my parents divorce, but maybe something else. But that curious empathetic blindness I get, I dunno where that's from. Sometimes I just miss the cues.