Kevin (Chucky)
Social communication and understanding
- - Difficulties understanding gestures, body language, and facial expressions.
- Difficulties making eye contact.
- Repetitive speech.
- Difficulties expressing themselves especially when talking about emotions.
- Anxiety in social situations.
- Lack of awareness on what is socially appropriate and thus have difficulty choosing topics to talk about.
- Lack of motivation to be social because of difficulties in communicating. Therefore they may not have many friends.
- Difficulties in group situations, such as going to the pub with a group of friends.
- Finding small talk and chatting very difficult.
- Problems understanding double meanings. For example, not knowing when people are teasing you.
- Taking what people say very literally.
Imagination
- - An obsession with rigid routines and distress if routines are disrupted.
- Problems with making plans for the future and having difficulties organising their life.
- Problems with sequencing tasks, such that preparing to go out can be difficult.
Secondary / Indirect symptoms
- - Obsessive compulsive behaviours, often severe enough to be diagnosed as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
- Obsessive interests in just one topic. For example, they might have one subject about which they are extremely knowledgeable in.
- Phobias: Sometimes people with AS are described as having a social phobia but they may also be affected by other common fears such as claustrophobia and agoraphobia.
- Acute anxiety, which can lead to panic attacks.
- Depression and social isolation (This is especially common among adults).
- Clumsiness, often linked to a condition known as Dyspraxia. This includes difficulties with fine motor co-ordination such as difficulties writing neatly as well as problems with gross motor co-ordination such as ungainly movements, tripping, and falling a lot.
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