Due to some very non-PG overloading that happened when I was very small, I've had PTDS relating directly to anything and anyone medical so I've never gotten diagnosed by "a professional."
I fully embrace my Aspie Aspects, but lacking that "diagnosis" I've never allowed myself to be in a forum or a comunity of my Aspie peers, but I really, really want to find people who won't think I'm "trying to make them jealous" when I share my bra size and who know I'm being HONEST, not arrogant when talking about my special interests.
However, I just took rdos's Aspie Quiz (which has this website linked as inspiration for the quiz):
Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 184 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 40 of 200
You are very likely neurodiverse (Aspie)
I feel like that is enough for me to prove to myself that I am allowed to be here! Horay! And Also I'm so excited because of some of those questions! Like, I never though that:
staring at "my people's hair" could be an Aspie thing,
not being jelous/ being fine with the idea of a multi-party relationship, could be an Aspie thing,
fiddling with my hair,
ovrsensitivity to light
spinning
holding my eyelids up when stressed
extreme dislike of being followed
extreme dislike of having people show up at my door
childhood imaginary friends
childhood paranoia that all the lines of the earth would end the world
childhood feeling of telepathy
tendency to mix up numbers
problem recalling a person's face without looking at them
love of long hair,
Could all be Aspie things!
I've always known these are my Aspie traits:
liking weird food, I.E "Burnt" "Overcrispy"
knowing if a random number is prime within 80% accuracy, even though I can't multiply well or divide basically at all
Sensitivity to the feeling of shirt sleeves
Utter incompetence in realizing I'm being flirted with
Socal awkwardness!
Geekyness
Emotional oversensitivity
sensitivity to smells
ability to reproduce anyone else's art
And
Special interests
--->Genetics
--->Social Behavior
--->Coding (Computer Programming)
--->Medical things (for protection)