weird stereotypes of aspies by other aspies

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I'm a lot like that, save the fact that I don't smoke, I rarely drink, I have a 1930's 'mattnie idol look' (I'm a cross beween Buster Crabbie and Jonny Wismuller) rather than a bouncer look, have a full head of hair (I'm rather prowd of the way it is you see as I rather like 'Flash Gordon' and 'Tarzan' and my GF thinks it makes me look 'cute') and I'm yet to marry my GF (would like to someday though...)

Other than that I'm more or less like yourself, were we seprated at birth by any chance!?!

Goodbye Till Next Time

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What if you have good balance and are yet somehow still clumsy? I never trip and fall (maybe once in my entire adult life, and a cat was involved), and yet I do trip, walk into things, drop things, knock things over, etc. I think I've pulled so many muscles tripping and recovering it's not funny, and is way too painful at times.

I picked that out of the list and a bit out of context because it's been on my mind. My sense of balance has been one reason I didn't really consider myself to be clumsy, but in thinking about it, I really am.

That one was a bit quickly written by myself, as clumsyness does not have to have anything to do with balance. Clumsyness will very very often be a hand-eye coordination issue. Maybe even worse if combined with limited ability to percieve depth of view.
These things will make you stub your toes and knock coffee-cups off the table by accident.
That could account for the fact that you never ever trip, as your balance is good, but you still knock stuff over.

Okay, thanks. I hadn't really read much about it, I just sort of assumed one thing before thinking much about the other.

I also have excellent balance, due to the fact that I was a professional ballet dancer for many years! So I don´t come across as "clumsy" at all. What´s funny, though, is that when I was a child, I did have coordination problems; I had a very hard time learning to dress myself, learning to ride a bike, catching a ball, etc. My parents actually put me in ballet, partly to help me with coordination (among other things). Little did they know that that would become my special interest!

So now, even though I started off with more physical problems than the other children, as an adult I have better than average coordination because I´ve trained it. Although, I seem to be worse than average with small muscle coordination: for instance, sewing the ribbons on my pointe shoes was utter hell! And nowadays, when food shopping, it takes me ages to open these little plastic bags they use in Germany. Usually, someone at the check out counter ends up reaching over and helping me....I think they feel sorry for me, because they see me struggle with it for so long.....

I thought scientific theories explained scientific facts. E.g. The theory of evolution explains how organisms change over time. The theory of gravity explains how objects with mass are attracted one another. Perhaps I am wrong?

Also, I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with the phrase "evidence suggests"?

From a dictionary I had handy:

Well, I've never had an attraction to alcohol and smoking... I also knew I looked different from the other kids... I still look different. I actually really hate that.

I agree. On some of these threads I've read things what have really frightened the s**t out of me, like ''Aspies are more likely to get cancer'', and ''Aspies are more prone to taking drugs'', and ''Aspies are more likely to get murdered,'' and more crap what I just can't be doing with. It gets silly. I don't know where people have heard all this from. If any of this was true, wouldn't Autism be a very, very serious thing? It seems like people are trying to make more out of Autism than what it originally is. I'm not sure if some people with it love being unique and so have black and white thinking which convinces themselves into thinking that ''Autistic people are more likely to get this than NT people''.
I've always been told that Autistic people and NT people have equally the same amount of chances of getting these illnesses. I've got just as much chance of getting cancer as the person next door to me. I've known a lot of people in my life who have had cancer, and they were/are all NTs. I heard of a lot of people who are on drugs, and they are all NTs (as far as I know). So there.

I have a weird way of thinking about other aspies.

Normally looking at pictures and thinking Aspies kind of smile or position themselves awkwardly (myself included), but that's what I merely think...I don't really mean it. They say some are photogenic (I've been called that too).

Are Aspies photogenic? I have no clue.

With the ''Aspies look younger than they are'' thing - I've learnt that most people look younger than they are. It is rare to meet someone who is 44 and looks exactly 44. I have an Autistic friend, who is 22, and he looks way older than he is - he looks about 32. And my other friend, who is NT, wears no make-up or has any fancy hairstyles, and she looks younger than her age. So there is no telling. In some people's eyes I look older, and in other people's eyes I look younger. Maybe I might look younger because I don't make an effort with myself (eg I don't wear make-up or have a fancy hairstyle. I only have a standard hairstyle). The majority of girls usually start caring about their hair and putting make-up on when they reach their early teens, but before then they usually just go about looking like me - with no make-up and just having a standard hairstyle.

I look older when I wear sunglasses. I look older when I do put make-up on. It sometimes depends on what facial expressions you have - it's not always your physical look.

I'm 25 and I look like I'm 12.
Craig Nicholls is 32 or 33 and looks like he is 17. He is the singer from the Vines with AS.

While not everyone with an ASD looks way younger than they actually are it is pretty common.

Well, it's just a theory, right? Which is the same as an opinion, which is the same as anything you think is right. That's why I believe that objects actually fall to the ground because they love mother earth so much they want to get back to it and what really pulls you to the ground is love. That's why we shouldn't explore space, because there's no love in space. After all, my theory is also a theory, so it's equally right.

No, I'm not actually serious about that - I was raised by two scientists, I know the difference between scientific theory and an opinion. But I do like to pull that out on people who use similar logic on... other things.

As to the original topic. Eh, people always find ways to try to draw their sub-group in closer, "we've all got this, thus we must all also not smoke because I don't smoke". I don't really care, to be honest I expect most of you to be more dissimilar than similar to me, same as NTs. I think most people have more differences than they have similarities, which is why they focus so much on anything that could be the same - to try to get a greater sense of closeness and unity from those aspects.

The forums are full of 'are you like this too?'

We are naval gazers

I look about 17 but if I grow a beard I look about 30 odd....it's weird...

I still suffer from bad skin though even though I no longer have acne.

I know quite a lot of NTs who look younger than their age. The manager at my work is 31, but she literally looks about 16, and she don't wear no make-up or anything like that.