Aspie NT Spectrum?

[youtopia]

Hello, I took the Aspie Quiz after reading about the possible link with Neanderthals. My daughter and I have been reading about and sympathetically identifying with Neanderthals for about 30 years (yes I'm an old lady). Also I have some Aspie traits. The test said I am most likely NT--but about 1/3 of my answers (72 of 200) were Aspie. So is there a spectrum in which NT shades into Aspie? Maybe this is covered elsewhere on this site.

 

[Judge]

My understanding is that Neurotypicals can have some Aspie traits and still be indisputably considered Neurotypical.

It's when you have many Aspie traits at varying amplitudes that really reflects someone who is on the spectrum of autism. Many of my traits and behaviors are relatively mild, however I seem to have nearly all of them I've read about. Some of which I found myself in denial about at first. It's been a bumpy but illuminating ride to discover and deal with my own autism.

 

[Ereth]

I don't know what the generally accepted view on this is, but I suspect my mild autistic traits (mild in comparison to some other people here, at least) caused me to go without a diagnosis this long. I've only known about my AS for a few years. And I recently took one of the online tests somebody linked here, just to see what it would say, and it said I was likely neurotypical. So . . . I guess that would make me an Aspie who's straddling the fence---at least according to that one online test. But I'm already officially diagnosed, so it doesn't matter much.

 

[Vanilla]

Welcome

I can't say for sure if your case applies to this, but for many Aspies, the traits are much more amplified at childhood, and Aspies can grow out of certain behavioural traits as an adult, as many Aspies learn to adapt to an NT world.

I myself am nearly 30, and am a completely different person to who I was at 20, and or even when I was a child. People used to think I was shy, but it was all because I had poor self confidence in my abilities to read situations. Now that I'm an adult, and I've learned to better understand those situations, people just think I'm a little eccentric, but otherwise normal...most of the time, haha.