That's not autism! -_-

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how good are you at mimicking accents on the first try?

Shockingly good. I have always been able to do that. Within minutes of watching a show or talking to someone I can usually get it pretty well. But you don't have to be great at accents to be a good actor. I am also very musical so that helps. But I read that the mimicking of accents is also common for Aspies.

I must be an outlier aspie then. [no talents]. you said you are musical, that means you sing and/or play instruments with no problem?

I do sing and play piano a little but definitely took study and effort, lots of it actually.

maybe in the next life I will have the right genes for such.

That would be fun. And I hope to be there to perform with you.

hopefully i'll be the one with the ponytail playing the organ

Most of those comments took place when I was in highschool, looking back not entirely sure why as at that point I was basically obsessed with pink floyd, didn't listen to much of anything else and had mostly black clothes but no real style usually guys pants and whatever shirts came up with mostly just random t-shirts, or with long-sleeve shirts under them I still do that. But a lot of people where into various fads loosely related to that whole 'emo' thing that was popular, when I was still going. Now I guess I have more specific sort of styles and some ideas I get from looking at bands I like and how they dress....a lot of people look at fashion magazines but never cared for those to help with ideas.

But yeah that picture does not represent my entire wardrobe...dressed more mellow there, but sometimes I have much brighter colors going on...and of band t-shirts, the metal ones can be rather dark....like pictures/designs on them, don't even know what shirt i have on in that picture due to the scarf.

I am supposedly high functioning...and have never been able to act NT to any extent....not sure how seeming neurotypical gets one out of homelessness per say.

It is just such faulty logic to think her talking about something that doesn't exclusively affect people with autism is a reason to think she does not have it . Not all people with social anxiety have aspergers but all people with aspergers have social anxiety (ok the second half of this sentence may be an exaggeration but a significant proportion)

Totally agree, I find this so frustrating, as far as I know there is no one symptom that is unique to autism it is about seeing the whole pattern, when people dismiss individual symptoms it is not helpful. My parents were very dismissive, I explained everything and they argued on every individual point how 'lots of people do that', without seeing the big picture that it would be pretty coincidental that I have so many problems and traits that people with autism have and always have. The worst though was an autism charity who are the gatekeepers to referral in my area, dismissed me in exactly the same way after 20 minutes. It was so frustrating as I had done so much research and was convinced I had it (have now been diagnosed) and was being dismissed based on what I said, as if what I could articulate in 20 minutes was all the evidence there was and enough to make their assertion, when I had 30 years of evidence.

sadly I see this kind of thing on this board of all places quite a lot as there seems to be this weird paranoia of thinking people wanting to have aspergers because its 'trendy'. When someone who has looked into it in a serious way says they have it this should be accepted, rather than try and argue 'thats not autism lots of people do that' as no one can condense their whole experience and reasoning into a concise explanation.

Yeah, there are very few things if any that are exclusive to Asperger's. Everything that Aspergian people suffer from everyone else also experiences TO A DEGREE. The difference is in the severity and frequency of the experience. So for some to say you are not Autistic because everyone does this or that is absolutely ridiculous.

When I walk into my house I come in through the door. Well everyone else does too. Does that make me not Autistic? It's a silly and obvious example but it's true.