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Does Anyone Else Have An Aspie Radar?
Poll ended at 14 Apr 2009, 11:52 pm
Yes, I can always spot one 57%  57%  [ 29 ]
No, I am usually wrong 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
I have no idea 41%  41%  [ 21 ]
Total votes : 51

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05 Apr 2009, 3:43 pm

millie wrote:
I have seventeen antennas.
I built them.
They are attached through the skin of my head to my cranium and help me search out other aspies wherever i go. (do you think my techno-machinated appearance might also be a dead giveaway? )


:lol: I pictured Doc, from that movie "Back to the Future," when he comes to the door wearing that gadget for reading minds.


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06 Apr 2009, 8:18 am

I can always spot obvious Aspies, yes, even if they're just an Internet friend. (I can tell by the way they write.) I correctly diagnosed one of my very good Internet friends; she had never heard of AS before, and my assumptions led her to go get a diagnosis. :D
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06 Apr 2009, 8:37 am

only sometimes.


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06 Apr 2009, 12:18 pm

The employment support service I attend is in an office building where a lot of arts and music-related businesses are based; it's always a dead giveaway when you see a lone, awkward figure wandering round the reception area amongst all these arty indie types. I'm not bad at playing spot-the-aspie, and I suppose my own traits make it fairly easy for others to finger me as one too.



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06 Apr 2009, 1:08 pm

Yep. There's a boy in my math class-undiagnosed, but definitely Aspie/Autie.

It might be because both my brother and I are Aspies, and I work with Autistic kids, so that is my "normal", and I can recognize and systematize similar patterns in others.


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06 Apr 2009, 5:27 pm

OddDuckNash99 wrote:
I can always spot obvious Aspies, yes, even if they're just an Internet friend. (I can tell by the way they write.) I correctly diagnosed one of my very good Internet friends; she had never heard of AS before, and my assumptions led her to go get a diagnosis. :D
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That's so cool!


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06 Apr 2009, 6:20 pm

i knew one of my friends had it.
he acts just like me!! !
and i mentioned that i have aspergers and thats why i have a hard time talking to you or anybody and he said he had it too.
and this one kid in one of my classes said something about his grandpa having HFA and i thought he seemed like an aspie/autie before he said that since it could be genetic??
and this one kid in alot of my classes he is super smart and geeky and good at everything!! !! and gets made fun of his intelligence but some reason i think he is one but i could be wrong???