But she is wonderful and I just hope she can stay aware enough of the world around her to become independent. I have a lot of those same traits but I don't think I am autistic. Are you sensitive to loud noises? My daughter is very sensitive to loud noises. I believe a lot of neurological problems are linked to immunizations with themerisol(mercury). The mercury, in my opinion, short ciruits the signals in our brains. The magical part is that our body re-wires our brains to work anyway with marvelous results at time but there are some drawbacks. Your long list of autism syptoms may be symtoms that a genetic anyway but the mecury that finds a home in our brain may increase the intensity of the problem. My daughter has no close friends outside of her family because that part of her mind has been rewired to focus on other things. While she maintains good grades in school, she has to have a monitor walk her to her class, because she may wander off. If you have difficulty holding down a job or get caught up in repetitive speech patterns(you say the same thing over & over), you might want to try to get rid of some the mercury. If you are happy with the way you are then maybe you are right where you are supposed to be.