What Are The Most Common Aspergers Symptoms In Adults?
The Asperger Syndrome can be detected early on in infancy and childhood, but only if parents or guardians are aware of the fact that there is a condition like so. Very often, especially in developing countries, the Asperger Syndrome goes both undiagnosed and untreated.
The reason for this seeming apathy is that children with Asperger Syndrome do not exhibit overt unusual physical manifestations (unlike children with Down syndrome) or cognitive manifestations (like delay in their language skills.) In many cases, children with Asperger Syndrome even exhibit superior vocabularies at a very young age; and show in-depth knowledge of a particular subject. As compared with children with high-functioning autism, a child with Asperger Syndrome is often times sociable and friendly.
However, things do change as they grow. One of the most prominent Aspergers symptom is the lack of muscle coordination. This is often times referred to as clumsiness or even the inability to focus on the task at hand. Unless the child is given proper instructions on how to handle muscle coordination, Aspergers symptoms in adults can be seen in the erratic movement of limbs in excitable times, and the apparent inability to perform “regular” tasks without mishaps. Some adults who underwent training in this area of development as a child often lead almost normal lives. They are able to control their actions more easily than those who were not taught how to coordinate their actions.
Also, like most adults with any form of autism (from mild to severe) adults with Aspergers syndrome cannot focus face-to-face with the person they are conversing with. Their shifty eye movements and what seems to be a lack of interest in what other people are saying are due to the fact that they are easily influenced by any form of stimuli. This is another one of the more prominent Aspergers symptoms – the hypersensitivity to outside forces like light and sounds. They are easily distracted especially if the topic or task at hand is something that they are not particularly keen on. On the other end of the spectrum, when they are interested in a particular topic, they will carry on discussions about it until they literally exhaust themselves. Adults with Aspergers syndrome will approach people they know or even complete strangers in an effort to make conversations, as a way of extending friendship. Unfortunately, they tend to discuss topics at length without regard as to whether or not the listener is still interested.
There are two prevailing misconceptions about adults with Asperger Syndrome. One: that they take things too literal and most of them are not prone to the intricacies of humor and irony. Children with Asperger Syndrome often exhibit these symptoms, but recent studies show that adults with Asperger Syndrome can grasp both humor and irony just as easily as anyone else can.
Two: the misconception that adults with Asperger Syndrome are prone to violence is something that is both unfounded and uncalled for. Very often, adults with Asperger Syndrome are subject to ridicule and even discrimination simply because they do not “fit” in with the normal crowd. Nonetheless, there have been no recorded incidences of adults with Asperger Syndrome (or even children with Asperger Syndrome) becoming violent when unprovoked at any point of their lives.
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I have a lifelong friend of 25 years who is a health professional. I recently reestablished contact with her 2 years ago. We had dinner, only to find out that we had many of the same interests, and wanted to start an intimate relationship with her. Her husband had died od a sudden, unexpected heart attack 4 years earler. She was ending a 3 years relationship with a man who wife had died of cancer at about the same time, but was of a much lower intelligence level than she, and was taking advantage of her. My friend would be nice to his face at times, bad mouth him to others to an extreme, and has asked him to move out of her house ASAP. Our relationship began as one of mistrust, as the old boyfriend would bad mouth me, and she would believe every word of it. The relationship, which recently ended, was very confusing for me-one day she would say I love you, the next was I don’t love you and move out of my house. She could definitely grasp the concept of humour-she and I sahred the same sense of humour. She has 3 children, of which she was constantly screaming at them(sometimes swearing inappropriately at them. The oldest daughter appeared to be the surrogate mother for her 2 younger siblings when she was home from college(Her middle daughter has been diagnoed with Asperger’s). She had a hard time evening hugging them when they needed some affection. I basically brought her children back to her-a relationship the prevoius boyfriend had all but destroyed. My friend also has a hard time showing affection to her children, and only really started when I came into the picture. She wears the same style of clothes most of he time with little variation. She can only sinle task-she cannot do more than one thing at a time without becoming upset. She fixates on her lawnmower and her laptop computer constantly. She says she knows waht she says can be hurtful at times, but she says them directly anyway.She definitely knows what love is, but has a hard time expressing it to me(she needs to have bells and whistles go off, but cannot see love as evolving and comfortable). She does know how to have sexual relations, and feels that she is quite attractive to the opposite sex. She feels alienated from her family because they don’t help her. The outside of her home is immaculate, but the inside is a mess(probably has’nt been full cleaned in 4 years)-she feels that the exterior is more important than the interior-she keeps the lawn nicely mowed, and her pool and hot tub are very clean. She is very demanding at work to the point where her coworkers find it hard to deal with her-her way or no way, and ther tire of hearing her badmouth others in her life to them, including myself and her children, and she has been known to occasionally lie to save face. I did fall in love with this woman, but it was very hard to maintain-I never knew if I was doing the right thing, and I found myself having a “dark cloud” of depression, being asked to leave her home, but never really knowing why, and blaming myself for it. She and I are still friends, though, at times, can still be touchy. She has contacted the boyfriedn previous to myself, to see if he would go out with her again, but I do not know the outcome of it. She always spoke of “comfort zones” and seeing “red flags” in people and situations. I hope this is helpful to men who suspect their mates or spouses have Asperger’s, as most articles are about men with Asperger’s.