Ask someone with Asperger's syndrome.

[GrandizerII]

Other than social interactions did/do you exhibit any other signs/symptoms?

Well, as a kid, I used to memorize children's books just for the sake of it. I have pretty good rote memory (or at least I used to back in my younger days).

Special interests, lots of them when I was a kid. I used to go crazy with certain topics (like Greek mythology) to the point that even the most mundane bits of details were considered with care. Nowadays, my interests are in such things as psychology, philosophy, and religion, but I no longer have this obsession with topics that I once had in the past, so it's relatively normal now.

As a kid, I also used to write down all sorts of lists (from simple lists like names of planets in the Solar System, to the list of names of every basketball player in every basketball team that played in the basketball league in my homecountry, to the list of all countries in the world, with their respective capital cities).

I have struggles with practical common sense. Example: Not intuiting that you have to pull up that flexible part of a syringe before you can then push down on it.

I don't have sensitivity issues (except with perhaps with touch on certain parts of my body, but it's nothing major).

Also, terrible with words. And I don't mean just in conversations with others. I can't even tell myself a good long funny story without hitting lots of long pauses in between. The best I can do is spurt out a few brief sentences at a time when speaking. Otherwise, I need to prepare a script beforehand and memorize it before I can tell a story properly.

I speak rather slowly. But that's to do with socializing anyway.

That's all I can think of for now.

Did you receive any specialized treatment?

Not for autism specifically. I was born in the early 80s when high-functioning autism was not yet widely recognized, and all my social awkwardness was attributed to me being simply shy and quiet. But I do remember going regularly after school hours to a speech therapist with my mother when I was a little kid.

What do you do for a living?

Automated testing (currently part-time, but full-time very soon). And casually, do cleaning for schools.