Autism Corner: Personality Types in Asperger's: Fixated, Disruptive, Approach and Avoidant

Autism Corner: Personality Types in Asperger’s: Fixated, Disruptive, Approach and Avoidant

29th June, 2021

2 July 2021, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Newsletter

[Source: My Aspergers Child]

Fixated Personality–The fixated personality type can be characterized by a preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and the need to control one’s environment (e.g., to have things in a particular order).

compulsion to make lists and/or schedules
feelings of excessive doubt and caution
obsessive need for cleanliness
perfectionism (that may sometimes interfere with task-completion)
preoccupation with order and organization
preoccupation with remembering and paying attention to minute details and facts
rigid following of rules and regulations
rigidity or inflexibility of beliefs
stubbornness
unreasonable insistence that others submit to his way of doing things

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