Every think your friends might be a little autistic?

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it is so questionable with friends, but with family it is to be dealth with.
i think many of my friends are eccletic like myself and wonder.
but most have a different diagnosis, so?

it is so questionable with friends, but with family it is to be dealth with.
i think many of my friends are eccletic like myself and wonder.
but most have a different diagnosis, so?

Outside my family, I only have two friends.

I suspect that one of them is probably aspie, he has a lot of aspie traits. I met him on college.

My friend from high school has only one trait: she talks a lot about her interests. She always tell me her adventures on Ragnarok Online, although sometimes she bores me with that topic (I don't play RO, so I'm not really interested) I try to listening to her. But I don't think she is aspie.

All of my friends are eccentric in some way, but not neccesarily autistic. My best friend has aspie tratis and LOVES her cats (if that counts as well), but she seems to have a lot more of a clue socially than I do.

My ex best friend is more socially atypical, but she has all but ostrecised me from her life now. She spent moswt of her young life taking advantage of me I suspect. She was constantly asking favours and heaping her personal problems on me, and not giving much in return. I do really miss her though. It's weird.

I have two other significant friends. One is gay, and works as a drag queen and dance instructor. He's a really nice and interesting guy to be around, but he was picked on a lot in school.

My other close friend is an artistic eccentric. He is in no way aspie, but he is very eccentric.

Perhaps we as aspies have just tended to be more accepting of minority groups and eccentrics as they can be less judgemental?

Yeah. My best friend has a lot of traits, but I don't think she's aspie.

I don't see why the people who don't have friends are bothering to contribute to this topic. If you don't have any autistic friends or don't have anything related to post to the topic, then why bother posting?

I don't have many friends, but the few I have feature many autistic characteristics. One guy would spend all English class memorising algorhythms on how to solve Rubiks Cubes within 2 minutes. He would ignore all his work, and become completely fixated on his cube. Another guy spends virtually all his time on anime forums: he spends a ton of his free time watching them, playing games (100% perfect scores, plus photographic evidence to prove it happened), and he even volunteered at a convention; I'm not sure if that's quite autistic because he's actutally very social and gifted in many ways at the same time.

Another friend I've known since childhood may have HFA. As a kid he would follow me around while I walked in circles counting cracks in the pavement, and he would continuously rant about his favourite TV shows, occasionally reciting whole passages of dialogue easily. He can't speak properly, he can't read or write correctly, he's completely oblivious to social norms, he stims fairly often, repeats things alot, and occasionally rants to me on-and-on about video games, linux, windows jokes, engineering problems. That's ok with me, because I love a few of those too. It shows first off that an autistic person is capable of getting to Grade 10 and be a skilled engineer, and he's become good friends with the hardcore techie guys. So I guess I'm proud of him in a weird vicarious fatherly way... does that make sense?

Me favourite teachers tend to have autistic characteristics as well. I know my favourite teacher ever was an english woman who was OBSESSED with Shakespeare (posters, dolls, entire works rare edition, maps of his house, multiple copies of the same play, started the Shakespeare club in a Grade 6 class) as well as being a somewhat eccentric woman herself. My second favourite is probably all my tech teachers. Tech teachers are full of so much trivial information, tend to be control freaks, and they give me a nice ego boost when I correct mistakes and find solutions to engineering problems faster than they do.

I have a good friend on the internet I met when I was 11. We have so much in common it's not funny, in fact it's almost scary. And the good thing about that is that we can talk to eachother online about things you either couldn't in real life, or that others wouldn't understand. He has alot of insecurities, phobias, odd habits and watches every single NBA game that gets aired; but at the same time he thinks and does things so differently from everybody else that he's amazingly unique. So I guess that means the internet is a real good thing.

Heck yeah! I am astonished now that I know about ASD how many people I have known over the years that seem to have it. Its like we all gravitate towards one another. Gays aren't the only ones that have RADAR!! When I look back I see a number of people I dated are on the spectrum and even their siblings are too. I remember kids I played with way back in elementary school the ones that got along with me and how I see now they had Aspie "symptoms". I want to know why I keep ending up with doctors who are Aspies and have kids with Aspergers. Its just getting too weird!

My ex-boyfriend has some AS traits. He has problems dealing with this world, and he is very escapistic. He also suffers from severe depression. When we talked about something, it was more like he talking about certain subject, and me just listening. In groups, he also had long monologues about his interests.

My friends have social anxiety

Don't have any.

My oldest friend was diagnosed with AS a couple of years ago. At the time, I didn't look into it much, and didn't really suspect that I might have the same thing. I've also got another friend who I suspect may have AS (we think just too much alike sometimes ), and another friend who I believe was diagnosed with ADHD something like a decade or more ago.

It is funny now I look back as many of my friends both on the net and off appear to have been AS.
Mind, I have not had all that many friends, but I seem to be drawn to others like myself which means AS or with borderline traits, mostly AS.
My ex is a diagnosed aspie.
a checkout lady I talk to seems to have aspie traits.
my ex closest online friend who I used to roleplay with and who came to stay was very aspie... the less emotional kind, but I didn't know at the time of course. I just knew she was very logical and detached most of the time.
My current longterm online friend who I have known 2 years also has aspie traits, but annoyingly, he does engage in what I would term smalltalk in that he just starts talking about his stuff which drives me nuts.
So yes... I seem to gravitate towards others who are this way inclined.

I tend to attract people who are the complete opposite of me (I can guess why with one of them, but for the rest, I have no idea). They're loud, hyper, and very outgoing. I wouldn't say they're normal, but they're definitely not autistic. A different friend is more like me - quiet and serious - but I don't think she's on the spectrum either. She's just a nice person, and she can do the social thing if she wants to.
Then I have a friend who sometimes seem a little aspie to me, but I'm not really sure. Some days she does, some days she doesn't. She's probably not.

I've thought about it before, but then realized it's near impossible. While many of them do appreciate technology and numbers in the same way I do, they're avid party-goers, speak very well and with confidence, and don't otherwise act like an Aspie. I'm lucky to have them.

there are so many things wrong with the words in the thread title i dont know where to begin.
yeah, im a ret*d, what was the question ?

One of my mates seems to have HFA or AS, he seems to be socially awkward at times and he excels at History and Computers... some people think he's a bit "simple" too.

But he acts NT in ways too, so I'm not exactly sure.