Have you ever had people you just met ask if you have ASD?

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Once I went to a mood disorder support group and describing my childhood a lady blurted out and asked me if I was autistic. She said she worked with AS people for a living. Then I got a bunch of questions from everyone in the group, they were trying to figure me out.

Not exactly, but the second time I met my friend's husband, he responded to something I said with, "Isn't that a symptom of autism?"

I have probably not encountered many people who know what Asperger's Syndrome is. No one has asked me directly. Then again, I stopped meeting people several years ago. Everyone I have ever known has remarked in some way that I am not like anyone else they have encountered. This excludes relatives, who seem to see me as mentally deficient, which I am, but not quite the way they think, I believe; they would not tell me what they think. People have told me that I remind them of Spock [or alternately Pee-wee Herman]. I do not perceive a physical resemblance. I do not believe that I could pass for a normal person among sober persons.

edit: When I was a child around 13 years old I was acquainted with a neighbor whose sister was MFA. He informed me that I am like his sister. That meant nothing to me at the time.

Someone I met on OkCupid asked me if I had Asperger's over the phone. I had never heard of it. I heard "assburgers" and was like WTF is that? But then someone else suggested it, so I had to research it. I always related to the "indigo children" thing, and noticed a lot of the same characteristics in AS. Now I'm officially diagnosed. Yippie.

when tired or hyped, yes

Its only happened once.

I was reading some of the genealogies in the bible (genesis and luke) and noticed a slight contradiction. So when i went toa bible study group a couple of days later and i asked the group why did they think this was the case.

Funnily enough nobody had even ever noticed it before, and one of them said "Do you have aspergers or something?" in a jokey sort of a way.
I think my response was something like "Would it suprise you if i said i did?"

Cant response what the response was, but it wasn't anything special and nobody seemed to really care in the end.

It was the first time someone asked, so it gave me great self-confidence to be completely truthful without being scared of a negative reaction. Now im not scared, or particularly scared if someone asked, but nobody has since anywat.