Normal for Aspergers to develop twitches?

[SallyBear]

DS1 Dx Aspergers at 8, he is now 12. We are getting lots of weird horrible facial expressions, little outbursts of temper and lashing out (we're nasty parents, you don't understand me, it's not my fault etc.) and strange twitchy shoulder shrugging. Is this normal? Should I be putting it down to hormones as well as AS? Do I ignore it?
He was always a very sweet natured child, but just recently........!

The temper and aggression are probably hormone related but the twitches and face pulling could be AS. There have been quite a few threads on here of the last couple years and there seem to be loads of children with AS/ASD who twich/tic/stim in lots of different ways.

We have throat clearing finger clicking and general humming. It is worse at times of stress. he coul be really tired/stressed as it has been a long term.

Dd3[9] blames me for anything that goes wrong, we have talked about it a lot lately and she openly admits that everything is my fault[buhmm][bugrin].

She is sometimes aggressive too if things are not going her way. This morning she wanted to go to Go Outdoors to go on the climbing wall but I said we would go after lunch otherwise I end up buying her something to eat because lunch has to be given at precisely the time she wants it.[bushock] Anyway she pushed me quite hard with her shoulder and when I told her not to do it she promptly did it again, growling at the same time.

Oh and nothing is ever her fault, does this sound very familiar??.

sallybear my DS2 does exactly the same - he's nearly 12. I think your explanation of 'twitchy shoulder shrugging' describes what our DS2 does exactly. We do not have a diagnosis of AS/ASD - yet.....

We have also started with the temper and lashing out. We have put this down to hormones as DS1 (15) did exactly the same and he is NT. However, I must say that it is a little different in that, DS2 does not seem to have a stop mechanism, in that he often will take things too far.

I'm going to see if I can search for some of the other threads on this subject - thanks ineedalife