how "weird" do you appear to other people?

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Probably. My world is better than the real world though
People thinking you're crazy is a good thing - at least it means you're not boring

Get told am wierd / mildly eccentric from time to time. Never noticed it myself realy.

I also think it is very hard to determine how other people perceive you. I think I am only moderately weird - but I have had other people say more so. So - weird all depends on the other person's tolerance for different.

'Autism' is simply an internal human 'normality' with the volume turned up. We all have experienced moments when we aren't quite aware or when we are too aware to handle the world. Or moments when we aren't quite aware of the company we are in or so overly aware of it that it gets hard to function. We all have had times when we've had hardly any awareness of our bodies, even been out of them, or felt so in, weighed down by them, that we become hypercritical, eager to escape, tune out, or disappear. We have all had times when we've lost the plot, the why, the what or been distracted by the meta-reality inside our heads to the extent that we are suddenly jolted out of a daydream. So too, have we all had moments when we have been so aware that we have taken things in ... almost overwhelming, extreme detail. For me, the experience of 'autism' is not any of these things in themselves, but rather the frequency and extremity with which they are experienced and the degree to which these experiences affect how one expresses oneself and relates to one's inner world and the outer world. It's a matter of whether you visit these states or whether you've lived there."
from the Foreword to "Autism and Sensing, The Unlost Instinct" by Donna Williams

I usually manage to appear perfectly normal- sometimes for up to half an hour!! haha

Some people say I'm totally weird, some people say I'm a little quirky, and some people say I'm normal. It depends on a lot of things, like how well they know me, what contexts they know me in, and how weird they are.

They vary; they're typically friendly to my face, but I always strongly suspect that they're only being polite.

Whenever I've noticed or overheard whispering between NT's, and was fully aware that it was regarding me: it has always been attention of a highly negative sort; so I think they find me weird, but not so much so that they can't hold it in while still directly in my presence.

I can only guess at what takes place immediately after I've left some store or shop; I've thought of planting a small voice-activated digital voice recorder at a check-out counter (hide it among the magazines maybe), leave for about five minutes, then return and retrieve it (to their surprise and consternation), and listen to it later just to find out what was said right after I walked out the first time.

Be easy enough to do; maybe the only reason I haven't done so up to now is that I'm too afraid of what I might hear.

I think it is generally just slightly wierd. Still, a number of things happen that seem to attract the attention of EVERYONE, etc... So who is to say?

Steve

just "weird" and "uniterested" or "tired-looking"

is what i mostly get.

generally, i can make some initial aquaintance friendships... but they never seem to last cause of my lack of input (work) i guess. most people i hang out with are people i just call randomly and still will let me hang out with them lol most ppl that consider themselves my friends have long since stopped calling me to go do stuff and just let me do my own thing, which sometimes involves them.

I've heard people call me the "UnaBomber", I wonder Why.

Many have told me I am weird, or strange over my life, and I never quite understood why and when I asked why, they couldn't define it.

People do look at me, but then I tend not to blend in. I tend to dress in a strange way and I never look quite of the world. Some have told me I have a haunted look in the past, which I would agree with.

I shall refrain from voting because I have to really force myself to attend to others perceptions. I'm not weird. Maybe the rest of them are weird. 8>

I think the end of American Beauty puts it best, where the "weird" girl is yelling at the stereotypical cheerleader about how at least she isn't normal (or whatever she says).

I think I probably appear "somewhat weird" to other people. I am extemely quiet, obviously nervous when I speak to people, and somewhat disconnected. I do not understand popular culture (who really cares about rappers? That's what I want to know. Actually, no, I don't), and I have no desire to speak about the typical stuff. Plus, it's difficult to categorize me - I'm not gothic (I'm "too sweet"), I'm not mentally ret*d (I'm too smart), I'm not emo (see gothic), I'm not a geek (I don't care about my grades), I'm not punk (see gothic again), I'm not a goody goody two shoes (I swear, blow stuff off, dress dark) ect. That unnerves some people.

However, I do not go around informing people of the wonders that are cheese and crackers (or some such nonsense), nor do I try to insert myself into every (or any) conversation. I'm not very weird.

I appear normal at work, but then, I am seen in an area of strength.

kinda goes for me too... i'm surrounded by slightly-nerdier-than-normal people... so i blend in to some degree

People usually like me, so when they notice my 'weirdness' it doesn't bother them too much, and I can laugh about it too. Total strangers might see me as being deeply weird if they see me talking to myself in the street or having some kind of meltdown in public. Also I tend to wear all green clothes, which might make people look at me funny.