I can relate to 90% of the commonly listed symptoms. I just woke up and came to turn my PC off for the night, so I'm pretty out of it and I have pretty bad back pain but I will post a couple for now until the morning. One of the many symptoms that stuck out to me was the obsessive interests. I love cars, motorcycles, music, and as a kid I was apparently extremely obsessed trains and collecting rocks. I still struggle with exaggerated facial expressions in everyday conversations but a lot of people actually like that about me. Whenever I find something that interests me (not very often) I hardcore focus it, when I found out about motorcycles over a year ago I spent every moment of free time I had learning how they worked in every little detail. I get frustrated if I dont know how things work down to the smallest detail. Eye contact was a hard one but actually I overcame that recently and can keep eye contact with almost anyone without it being awkward; it did take a lot of practice. I have no interest in making friends which kind of sucks because everytime I work somewhere the people love me. I recently got into music and didnt even know I would ever love something like this and have been spending a minimum of 8 hours a day learning music theory, my DAW, and overall just having a blast with it. My first anxiety attack was at age 2 when I watched a goosebumps episode with a mask, I remember not being able to breath. According to my Mother and family who was around me through ought my life that I was depressed since I was around 2. I am EXTREMELY moody and have a very hard time staying on topic. I notice patterns more than others supposedly, staying focused in school was a big problem and that's a huge understatement. I still have a very hard time keeping my hands still but it's a little better than what it used to be. I have routines that I refuse to alter in any way, I get frustrated over the simplest of things, and to say I'm emotionally sensitive would be another HUGE understatement. My photographic memory is beyond good, I can remember a part of my dream from this morning with great detail, enough detail to where I could paint it with 90% detail. My judgement seems to be far superior than anyone I've ever met. Pretty much if you google Asperger's syndrome and pick a random symptom I could give you tons of examples of how that relates to me. I hope you can ignore these run on sentences, but I'm out of it and wanted to type this out in the morning. I felt too bad to go to sleep ignoring you guys for a night so here I am. I've had 2 friends that I was ever close with and I only talk to 1 of them now but he doesnt understand me and quite often misunderstands me and gets upset with me so I just shut myself out from him too. As a kid I was the clumsy one, I spilled everything (still do) and tripped over everything (not as much anymore). Sometimes I laugh at things that shouldnt be laughed at but it's not on purpose and is still confusing to me. One sided conversations is a huge one for me but my last job forced me to work on that one and I have gotten at least 50% better at that. I wish I was diagnosed with this at the age of 2, not 21 considering I have improved a lot of these issues. I always want things as specific as possible and nothing is good enough until I see it as perfect. I never tried in school but somehow am in the top 2% in the nation for writing (ACT, Compass test). One last thing I guess is the being misunderstood thing I dont actually know if this is related to aspergers but I'm going to give an example. Last summer I was with my best friend while driving to get some food. A car behind him was tailgating him so my friend sped up A LOT and before you knew it was a game of who is going to slow down first. My friend said he must have been going at least 60 mph, not even thinking I said "yea, "specific number" and he got upset saying how I always do that. I just like things to be specific. I used the mirrors, and time to guesstimate how much slower the other guy was going and he got offended saying how I always disagree with him. My mom has asperger's and me and her could relate on these things almost entirely. I hope people could make sense of these run on sentences, I'm out of it right now. I am my own worst enemy.