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08 Nov 2010, 7:28 am

Maybe it's a set facial expression. I doubt that it's a physical deformity, however.



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08 Nov 2010, 8:25 am

I've heard someone say that a lot of people with aspergers have slight shadows under the eyes, like we're tired or something.
I don't know if it's true or not.



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08 Nov 2010, 11:15 am

T92 wrote:
I've heard someone say that a lot of people with aspergers have slight shadows under the eyes, like we're tired or something.
I don't know if it's true or not.


When I was a child I often had shadows under my eyes. I had a lot of allergies then.


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08 Nov 2010, 11:43 am

People have told me I have big eyes and pupils and that I always look tired because my eyelids have the appearance of being half closed, the look seems to run in the family.

I always thought my eyes made me look sad, wearing glasses seems to help distract from it.



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08 Nov 2010, 12:04 pm

I'm going to go along with the body language and eye contact differences, as being what's "different" looking about us. Also, not that I've noticed it much at all as pertaining to Asperger's before, but my eyebrows (like the OP's avatar), are very high and arched. According to my wife; a former Special Ed teacher, is one of the key things that causes people (especially police) to thing we're "up to something". Apparently that's also a characteristic of crooks. I now shave the top of mine, and to my disbelief, I don't seem to be having such a problem with everyone double-checking me on anything I say.

I don't think there are any other physical differences between Aspie or Autistic people, and others. With Downs Syndrome, or other non-mainstream conditions, there are facial palsies, and other neuromuscular effects which cause the face to have an odd appearance. That's not the case with us, as far as I know.

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08 Nov 2010, 12:27 pm

kx250rider wrote:
I'm going to go along with the body language and eye contact differences, as being what's "different" looking about us.


Yeah, I too think that makes most sense.



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08 Nov 2010, 12:49 pm

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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.

When I am focused on something, I am told I have a weird expression on my face. And, some of my friends don't like how I play poker. I usually will play the blinds without even looking at my cards.



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08 Nov 2010, 1:31 pm

kx250rider wrote:
According to my wife; a former Special Ed teacher, is one of the key things that causes people (especially police) to thing we're "up to something". Apparently that's also a characteristic of crooks.


That's an interesting point. It's funny because I tend to keep my eyes wide open, eyebrows high, and I'm constantly looking around in addition to the poor eye contact, so when people ask me things I feel like my face is framing me of something. It's especially weird when I'm out shopping..



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08 Nov 2010, 2:58 pm

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08 Nov 2010, 9:30 pm

LeeAnderson wrote:
Maybe it's a set facial expression. I doubt that it's a physical deformity, however.


That's what I think. They look normal, but they have such a unusual expression it somehow affects their whole appearance.... I hope that makes sense.



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08 Nov 2010, 9:42 pm

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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.


I have a smaller cranium hidden under all that hair. I've got the shadows under the eyes too.


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08 Nov 2010, 10:20 pm

None that I have ever heard of, but I have not heard everything.


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09 Nov 2010, 1:26 am

I have read and heard that an almost significant number of us have the high palate (cathedral mouth), along with which those who have fragile-X syndrome. One or two dentists had said that my mother and I had that. I don't know whether that changes the external appearance of the face. I think that we have a tendency to have the piercing eye. When I was a youngster, I also had a facial tic. Comorbidities, shmomorbidities! I tell you, it is always something in this game into which the Fates have hurled us.



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09 Nov 2010, 3:36 am

BroncosRtheBest wrote:
The Aspies that I've seen do have a certain look about them that I can't put my finger on. I wouldn't say it was a deformity though.


I couldn't have expressed it any better.



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09 Nov 2010, 6:01 am

I dont think aspies are sharing anything physical, but maybe the facial expression if I think about it. Maybe the awareness and seriousness in the eyes, when we are relaxing the face. Many NTs I know look almost like they smile or have kind of a a friendly expression when they relax the face. Me and the aspies I know personally dont.



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09 Nov 2010, 6:39 am

greenheron wrote:
I have read and heard that an almost significant number of us have the high palate (cathedral mouth), along with which those who have fragile-X syndrome. One or two dentists had said that my mother and I had that. I don't know whether that changes the external appearance of the face. I think that we have a tendency to have the piercing eye. When I was a youngster, I also had a facial tic. Comorbidities, shmomorbidities! I tell you, it is always something in this game into which the Fates have hurled us.


i do have a high palate....and i didn't get any braces ,but that may have been corrected in those whose parents actually took them to the dentist's! anyone else?