Do you look autistic/weird to other people?

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When I walk around town I stare at objects on my right or left or I look way up into the sky, or I stare at people too much so I don't bump into them. I find it hard to walk up steep hills or up and down stairs.
I walk very close to fences or walls so I don't end up falling onto the road.
I wear the same jeans/jacket with messy hair and nerdy glasses.
When I talk to people I look straight ahead or down.
I get overexcited when I see things I want to buy, like yesterday when each Harry Potter stick/diary/address book was $2 each.
When I'm getting annoyed with people I make a little grunting noise.
When I walk into a store with a faint scent or there's a lot of noise I automatically touch my head with my hand as though I have a really bad headache or I block my ears.

But people seem to think I'm pretty normal.

I've been mistaken for foreign XD

I used to too, when my kids were younger. I have got some strange looks, but usually it got passed off as somebody playing with her kids. I've had ppl ask "are you autistic?" on occasion, usually when they're frustrated with me.

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When I walk aroud the buildings at where work, I see my reflection in the windows and if I am not paying attention and look at a window I see a man about 1-2 evolutions behind homosapien. Thin, weak and looking like I am wait, imagine if mr burns from Homer went for walks around lunchtime.

I play with my kids on the equipment, and then when I am tired kick the mulch back in. That's a social responsibility.

I imagine I appear strange to others, but not usually enough to arouse suspicion of anything specific.

I also like to walk around borders. I think it is because the borders are apart from the rest of the area, like what Temple Grandin said how AS dreams are like watching a movie as opposed to being a part of something. We like to be on the outside looking in.

Interesting. I can totally relate.

I walk around borders too. I try to balance on them. I remember one at church that I walked around for hours.

i get that a lot too .. in fact, i just asked on the AS / NT hotline if it was code for "you're a little bit strange." so i guess that's a yes??

i also often hear i look bored, angry, etc. (when i'm not) or my favorite: "smile!" which, oddly, makes me angry when i wasn't at all to start with.

Cool! So can we conclude that walking on the borders of many areas is an AS thing? My whole family does it. Usually my autistic son jumps on and starts and DH, me and my NT son all follow. Oh when we take them to those indoor playgrounds, DH and I never sit down there and chat. We climb structures and go down slides and shoot soft balls and everything. After all "parents play for free" so why not get the most out of our bucks? Sometimes I cringe when I see some moms there, wearing high heels, tight jeans, tight tops, numerous bangles and chains and carrying huge handbags. It's obvious they can't play with those and don't plan to. I don't know what they're going to do if their kids start fussing on the top level.

this! no kiddin'! I can't tell you how many times I get this 'observation'.

I find I grow on some people. Those that can hang with it become protectively loyal to me and those that have some sort of attitude that they are offended I am even there just keep feeling that way.

One of the things that made sense to me after finding out about as involves a very similar stim type behavior.

I was like 20ish and going to a tech school for computers. Outside on a smoke break an older student noticed me walking up and down on top of a parking space stopper thing. He told me about some guy he knew when he worked for UPS. He described the guy pacing and being in a permanent state of focus. He said the guy wrote the main software program UPS used to keep track of shipments.

I think the guy he was describing probably had AS and this student told me about him because he noticed similarities; even if he didn't know what the similarities were.

I have been told that I have various accents, appear foreign and look ret*d. The whole bit, people don't think I'm normal at all. I have even attracted police attention for various reasons, and people think I'm on drugs even though I'm not (not counting caffeine or acetaminophen).

this one used to happen to me as well, which is no surprise, as i often feel like i am.

I have used this to my advantage many, many times. Then people can't tell if I am being just me or if just me, stoned.

I get mistaken as a forgiener, a lot. I also get asked what part of England I'm from.

That used to happen to me a lot.

^ Most often
I seem to have an eastern accent as someone once said, but I'm a mid-westerner.
Someone( A lady in the laundromat) recently told me that I seemed cultured, and asked where I was from.
I do sense my whole persona is out of synchrony with my peers ,and Ive had input over time as that I'm "scary "or "weird" or "intimidating."

-In my twenties I would get "you looked stoned" more than a few times.

-When I become stressed out and it moves into a chronic zone, I start to have executive functioning problems, and I've had people tell me I look "confused" a few times..... and I do feel confused.