all right i wanted to start this form for anyone who has/knows someone with it
i myself have it and it effected everything i've done in my life ,
some people would say i have alot courge and some others would say i have very little courage well it all depends on where and what and with who or whom


i can speak to one thing about aspergers is that while all there senses are dulled one or two of them at a given time will be Higthen alot , commonly its sound and touch , thats what it is for me ,
one thing to keep in mind is that when someone has as emoational responce that strong towards someone it will stick for quite some time , and that can great fears with bad experinces of the past , it is quite easy for some with as to fall in love but its not easy for them to show it , espionally if they have bad experinces with it in the past

i think one of the great fears someone with aspergers has is being misunderstood ( i'm sure thats a commond fear amoung many people )

one of the best things is how they can feel there way thro doing something they've never done b4 , they can't really talk about it untill they do it 10 or 20 or 1000 times and feel they chould teach it , but they feel things more then others like they feel the expressions on others faces altho they may not understand them completely they feel it inside , so when they take up art like wood working or singing or painting or playing paino or doing sulcupture they put there heart in doing those things so totally that its there

i think aspergers as a strength when it comes to doing things or not doing things

i think of it as a weakness when it comes to us understanding people

i know for i own personal experince that what we feel we feel completely

and becuase of that it can be a strengh or weakness
i perfer to look at it as a strengh

i'd like others to post how they feel about it ( friends acquitents or people who have it {perfered lol} anyone who has taken and gotton to know someone with it )

personally i belive that people with aspergers EXell in the arts and music

i love doing asbraction painting altho certin paintings might take a month or two do to , whicih is why i siwtch to digital slr Photography sill i miss delevoping pictures , but it is nice to play with apture and shutter speeds when you understand then and even if you don't

i have to say i like doing muisc in past i'd play the same few songs over and over and i recreate them into differnt songs by testing which notes couold be switched for other notes , still i could never do that in public altho the few times i did i wasn't playing for the public it just seemed like i was like playing the grand paino in the galleria in london ont. or the 2 old painos at the one place for homeless people to get food and get orgnaized in vancouver , it was between granville st. amd seymour st. on helmicken st. you had to go up the stairs to the secound floor , and then instead of going into the main area for people you enter the little room at the top of stairs and there was this paino hidin behind the door for anyone to play i loved playing that cuz the doors were shut so i could experment again , i din't realize that everyone could hear it heh well the cornator of the place was wondering if i wouold do some music of bach or beethoven ( i only knew 3 or 4 songs of each and only 2 songs well ) so i said i'd have to see the paino ( i thought it was all a lie and he came back later and invited me into some of privite offices of people who worked there and then down to this stage a place with a entrace somewhere on seymour st. ( i think ) it was very nice and well i said i'd play this everyone left which they did and it was very nice , i can't play paino as good anymore cuz i'm thinking about other people and myself too much mainly family problems and money problems so now i do photography i still play paino sometimes but i don't Flow with it like i use to ( perhaps its cuz i'm more soical )

Your post is amazing!!!! My daughter is aspergers (without the test, as well as a string of other labels) but she too is extremely touch and sound sensitive, there is so many complex things going on with her, she is only 10! She does indeed listen to the same song over and over and over again, she will dance to it, sing to it, its almost a major episode of stimming, but if you turn a radio on and play something she can dance or sing to, she will entertain you for hours! Smell is another one, she is taken quite off guard by smells, oddly enough I can smell rain before it comes, and flowers before a funeral of someone close (something my Mother also did). And your right about the "feeling there way through something", once she does learn it though, just like a song, she will wear it out to no end. The more time I spend on here, the more I understand where she is coming from. A life/sanity saver for me and her.

I have to say it's a strength, it has helped me excel on the internet and computer, and even helped me become extremely wealthy for a certain amount of time, however we all know that are interests may change frequently, but they may also go back the our past favorite activitys. Especially for me it was computer games, then switched to web design/blogging, and web design programming. and it pretty much just stayed there from 1994 to currently present... :0).