How does aspergers affect the way you look?

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My heads not big and I walk normal I think.

I have very Austin Powersish Body Language. My shoulders hunch, when I smile. I guess I can say that I have a spring in my step. I have a big Head, as well.

I do have a five-head instead of a four-head, meaning I can put my entire hand on it. That said, I don't think AS affects physical appearances.

My mom said I walked like a "storm trooper"...."bend your knees,bend your knees!"

This was great advice for some one who was already to paranoid to eat around strangers...people use to count the times I chewed and make fun of it(and those were my so called"friends")

And was afraid I was breathing to loud on the bus, so would be self-concious wearing headphones because I couldnt monitor the sound of my breathing....

I dont bounch,though,more like a shuffle and very selfconciouse about it ....

I hate the feel of hats so I dont know what size my head is....

I got the stormtrooper response quite a bit as well; this is quite frustrating. I'm more fluid in my movements now.

I have the blank duh stare alot because I'm usually concentrating on other things - even when I'm trying to follow a conversation it is distracting to remember to smile and look friendly. So I get told by others to smile or that I look like I am mad (lol) - or depressed. As far as smiling for pictures - I was showing my daughter the photo album from my wedding and I noticed that I have the same smile in all the pictures. I hadn't looked at the pictures in years so it was funny. It is my "picture" smile.

i have aspergers and iam a model, so i dont think it does, or at least it hasnt affected me or any of my family

I have a small head too. I don't like to have my picture taken cause i can't smile right. And if it looks fake and forced i think that is worse than not smiling at all. I smile if i find something amusing or something that pleases me. But if i have to "try'' to smile, i just can't. I have a normal walk at least no one has made comments about the way i walk.

i was one ugly son of a b1tch when I was pudgier in the face.

could still use a bit of better looks, although i had a group of girls really coming on to me. big difference in weight change.


just a little more........

funy, i have always beendescirbed as having at cheeks........fatter than prpotrtion to the rest of my face.
any one else, or just me?

I had the impression there was no stereotypical set of outward features, as it's a neurological thing? (the walk being part of the neurology, as opposed to a physical feature)

I think you'd say I've got a big head, but then I'm pretty solidly built so it's not really obvious. Aside from that I used to hunch a lot, got pulled up on it a lot, nowadays I get pulled up more for working against it too obviously.

People say to me why are you depressed or why are you sad. In fact I am not, I am just thinking and my face does what it does.

Facial expressions, I care not to comply!

I have the bouncing walk too. I've also seen it posted somewhere else that the eyes are a give-away. I have the "egyptian eyes". Growing up, everybody thought I was always stoned.

I have been teased before about "bouncing" when I walk, but it's probably related to the fact that I toe-walk.

My head is a good bit smaller than average (I always had to special-order riding helmets), but so is the rest of my body, so it may be proportionally correct and just small because all of me is small.

I don't know about the issue regarding gait, but the shape of the skull (concern) is definately Phrenology! Sure, everyone sells it short but we all practice it. Ever see a CEO that looks like a churlish stooge? Of course you have. Ever see a guy bagging groceries that looks brilliant? Honestly, don't you feel better when a freaky dullard asks "paper or plastic?" and your boss has "hair like the mayor and walks like the Lord?"