I think it's a sibling thing. I don't have AS, but I do have ADD and when you meet people like yourself I think there can be friendship because there'll be empathy.

Hmm, it probably differs from person to person, but with my closest friends, we have the same qualities (in this case, ADD-type boredom) so we naturally create variety that we can't find in other friendships. We fight more too, but there's the natural attraction of restlessness that brings us together.

With AS it seems like people have particular interests or styles of communicating, and on another site someone was saying they liked being able to relate all the time, which is what it's been like to date other ADD people: a (out of control) constant party.

My new boyfriend is high functioning, and a friend is less so, but I don't think I've seen them interact with other AS people. Maybe you have to meet people that are right on the same level as you and have similar interests.

goes both ways. in mozart and the whale 2 aspergers people marry, and its based a true aspergers couple. of course, if a movie was made out of it, who knows if its very common. I was very good friends once with an HFA girl. that is, until we became room mates. however, she was also extremetly narcissistic; for example, all your aquaintances shouldn't know your IQ. I feel that's the sign of a problem. perhaps to be friends with another aspergers, you both just have to learn extra about guidelines and space because you may be friends because you understand each other and stuff, but you also will have understanding deficits that can eventually get on each others nerves in a big way

My son is an Aspie like me. He is great. Proud ti be Aspies.

whether or not a person with AS needs medications or not to deal with it depends truly on the severity , and the complex mix of symthoms that makes up the persons entire being...

while most with AS do not or may not need medications to deal with their AS issues

for some with severe symthoms medications may help or be needed...

sibling rivalry and stuff when even one has AS (even Mild) can be difficult and complex to say the least...

so when both have it and one has it servere enough that medication is used to help cope with it...


it is going to be an even more challenging issue

Walt

Hi Aussiejeff I am an aussie too living in NSW. My partner is an Aspie- it has taken me 2 years to understand his wiring but hey we are getting there. Read everything you can-here are some writers for you- Donna Williams(also an Aussie), Tony Attwood,in Brisbane; Maxine Aston(UK),John Elder Robison- he has a book out called Look Me in the Eye and was only recently diagnosed and has a brother who is a non-AD.As for medication, my man refuses to but I would love him to take something for his anxiety.

Good morning. I have Aspie twins, and some days they get along fine, but a lot of the time they fight, like cats and dogs. 1 will get frustrated and boom! the fight is on. Having AS makes them unable to make normal relationships..at this time at least. They also have a hard time grasping what is reality and what was made up in their heads. They can see something simple as the other person declaring war.

It can be difficult, but we have hopes that eventually things will even out.

heh heh. I get along fine with my brother, for short periods of time, and when there is a specific goal we are achieving. When we are together for an extended period of time, and I am not diagnosing him, but he also shares alot of and possibly more AS "symptoms" than me, I find that his inability to even attempt to see things in a way different from his own, and his unbending self righteous attitude drives me out of my mind when I am stuck with him for a road trip. I tell him when what he has said makes me feel awful, but he just doesn't get the whole emotion thing, and I can't drive it into him that people DO feel. I love my brother and there is nothing that I wouldn't do for him, and he for me and we always hug in the end because you're kind of stuck with family :)