I made the test and got a 25, is that good or bad?

18 is average, 32 and up is considered in the asperger's spectrum.

I edited the OP with a description. :)

Finally a good thread to read! I'm not sure about Aspergers and don't think I have it or anyone else for that matter. Glad to hear that you cope with it and that you are enjoying life. It feels good to read when people overcome obstacles! Thanks for the thread!!

I think Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory has that

Was diagnosed when I was 15, so nearly a decade ago.

I can never think of anything to say either. I obssessed about video game sales until I realized that they were not accurate enough for my taste. I obssessed about lyrics. Little noises annoy me and I can get angry for hours. I hate talking on the phone. I always been pretty good at reading facial expressions. i would change it because I have been bullied, discriminated and beat up my whole life.

Ah yes I read it now, thanks! Very interesting. :)

Yes, diagnosed at 11

Best way I can put it is that you lack automatic social skills. Can't read others' emotions, can't naturally empathise, very inflexible to change/needs a rigid routine, obsessive, and very easy to get sensory overload e.g. in normal everyday situations feel overwhelmed and have to leave.

I had to manually learn to cope with each of these (still have the condition, but taught myself to read faces partially, to cope better with change, to be able to talk enough to buy something from a shop)

The condition is not seperable from my personality, and thus not 'curable'. Just livable.

But at age 11 I just couldn't even be in a regular classroom, there was too much going on, kids just talking or playing is too much to cope with. And yet at that point I could hold conversations with adults perfectly fine, because it was calm and structured.

I seriously dislike the image that misdiagnosed ADHD kids give Aspergers. Having Aspergers means you can be accidentally insensitive or inflexible on occasion, sure. It doesn't give you the right to be deliberately insensitive, to always get what you want, to abuse other kids/staff/parents, or to get special treatment above and beyond that which is necessary for you to cope in school/work. Also, most Aspergers people are capable of learning what is socially unacceptable and then not doing it.

I also am fully against any drugs being prescribed (mostly America). They do not help the condition itself, they just for example sedate you so other people can cope with you.

I've been formerly diagnosed with apergers, turrets, mild ADHD and dyslexia :p i'm surprised my mother didn't shoot me while growing up. I was not pleasant to deal with for the first 10 years of my life.

I'd never want to get rid of my aspergers. To hell with being able to read people properly, it'd be liking killing myself. It's who i am.

That said, I'd gladly get rid of the latter three ¬_¬ They're purely inconveniences. When i was younger i'd probably have wanted to get rid of the turrets the most, it was quite bad for a while... These days though i'd say the dyslexia, i'm sick of having to spell check everything. Even this will probably get stuck in word before being posted :p