physical deformity in aspergers?

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Some people with AS may have similar features. I'm short with inexpressive eyes.
Some NT's judge people by their intelligence if they look like they have an intellectual disorder. I'm pretty sure that's what this 'derp' thing is about.

(I don't know if I consider myself aspie, but I'm told I'm on the spectrum.)

I've heard of deep set eyes. I have no idea about that but I have that and I've been told I sometimes look stoned. Especially in pictures.

I've heard of something to do with a brow ridge or something? I have that.

I look like a regular person, I think. But I also have a blank face in it's normal state. I get asked if I'm pissed off or am told I'm hard to read. A poker face. That sort of thing.

From seeing other pictures of young white Aspie girls as well as photos of my mother (who definitely has some characteristics, though she is not DX'd) I believe there are certain subtle facial differences - wide set eyes and a wide set nose are the two that stood out to me.

Open to the thoughts of others, whether in agreemetn or disagreement!

I think that it would be a really interesting project to collect a large number of full-face photographs of people with Asperger's and autism, and to combine them with morphing software. Some excellent examples of the technology are displayed at http://www.facelab.org/

It is possible to both generate the group average, and to then generate the group caricature by amplifying differences between the group average and population average.

I think that we would possibly identify some interesting, subtle visual features that are common in ASD and would definitely end up with a pleasant "face of autism" poster image that shows that people with ASD look as "normal" as everyone else.

I heard those on the spectrum have 'big eyes' but I'm thinking maybe the thing about the eyes is actually big pupils. I have big pupils.

I think any difference in outward appearance in Aspies would be due entirely to its' symptoms.
For example, I think there's a particular way that a lot of us hold ourselves (awkwardly!), which is only subtly different, and most NTs don't even pick up on it. I also pick up on the nervousness and dithering when another Aspie is trying to maintain appropriate eye contact or hold a conversation. These are all aspects of the way we use our bodies, rather than actual physical differences.

The only cause of a physical difference I can think of would be if we're always awkwardly using a different set of muscles to perform basic functions (standing, walking?). This could produce slight differences in muscle tone.

oh my god. i have such cute little ears! i wanna suck them very well nice.

i find that some Aspies that i have either met or seen in photos have faces that remind me of mine. i'm not talking facial expressions; i mean actual facial structure, but i don't know quite how to describe it. i experience this feeling with both males and females. although, when i see a fellow female Aspie who also happens to have brown hair, the similarity can be particularly striking, like we could almost be related. of course, i have also seen Aspies that do not look like me at all. so i could be imagining everything.

I don't have the derp face - that I know of.

However, I do have sandal toe feet. Big gap between big toe and the next toe.

Anyone else have that here?

people ask me if im OK. aparently i look sad. im usually just off in thought

i have pretty piercing eyes, but as i barely make contact it doesnt bother anyone. my bestie form highschool told me i had freaky eyes, though she is one of the few people i dont feel bad about a bit of extended eye contact with. im pale, circles under my eyes most of the time and really blue eyes

aparently im a little cross eyed too.

I don't think I'm funny looking; a lot of Dunmers have blue skin and red eyes.

But on a note somewhere in reality, I do notice people staring at me like they're trying to figure something out. I don't believe that there is a deformity, it's probably just the clothes, eye contact, etc.

For what it's worth, I recently read a paper examining cranial size in ASDs and while some LFA had some measurable differences, there was nothing substantial in the Aspergers. group. And a smaller than average cranium correlated to severity of autism.