I can easily spot other Aspies no matter what

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Joe's smoothie?!

Well, I suppose. As long as it's not Starbucks.

I'm tempted to take this bet and I'm not even that confident of my aspiedar. I know it doesn't work for females.

Actually, you can't really ask people if they're autistic, that wouldn't be nice. Just pick a bunch to test with Joe's Smoothie, say you have to get 5 out of 10. That would be ~1000 people you'd have to see, which would take a couple/few hours in a busy thoroughfare. All monies escrowed first. I'd be up for that, I think.

You definitely have a spare grand? I wasn't sure if you were just making a point.

I sort of have aspie sense/an aspiedar. I can usually tell if somebody is aspie or not, accurately.

It's a maths thing. If 80% of aspies say one thing and 70% of nonautistics say another, you can maths a number of successful guesses of random strangers that would win me the bet. For £100 it's definitely worth a punt. Dreamsofa, are you in?

Basically, to earn the money, the claimant would need to identify, in a busy public place of my choosing, total strangers as being on the spectrum on the basis of the way that said total strangers walk, talk and make eye contact. The people picked out as being on the spectrum would need to be able to prove that they had an pre-existing professional diagnosis of ASD. The claimant would be not allowed to receive or make any kind of contact with anyone else other than myself once the challenge began.

It's a bit like the Amazing Randi's challenge, but with ASD.

That doesn't work, though. You know there exists a significant proportion of undiagnosed people on the spectrum. We need a way to validly identify these. I like Joe's Smoothie though it introduces statistical ideas we would have to agree upon. For £1000 against my £100 I'm keen to reach an agreement here. DreamSofa, are you up for it or are you all hot air?

Or just say I can guess 1 in 10 who can confirm (not produce, that's ridiculous) a diagnosis of ASD. Though I'm reluctant to ask people if they're on the spectrum; it feels invasive. Would prefer another method.

A potential method to identify an undiagnosed autistic person is to hint without directly saying that they are autistic. Watch them fail to pick up on the hints again and again and again. Use increasingly strong hints that fall just short of saying that they are autistic. If the suspected autistic person turns out to be an especially oblivious NT and eventually picks up on the hints and gets offended by them, then simply tell them that you are autistic and cover up your hinting by talking about your own autism, as if that was what you had been talking about all along.



I have a feeling that this is wrong wrong wrong, but I report on WP what is in my mind anyway. I have been the recipient of these increasingly strong hints that I was autistic, but I did not get them until years later, after I was diagnosed and told directly that I was autistic.

I have moral problems with that too, whereas I'm fine handing them a bland looking questionnaire. But whatever DreamSofa will agree to is fine, really. Looks like she's not serious about the challenge. It was just empty posturing.

I was thinking that too but I might not have said it as good as mysty.