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25 Jan 2012, 9:09 pm

Many people said having Asperger's doesn't change physical characteristics but it does. For some reason, no matter what the race is of the Aspie, they always have the same facial features. These include:
1.The shape of the lips, the top lip especially
2.The mouths are wider than NT's mouths by a little bit.
3.Sometimes the eyes look a certain way, more slanted than NT eyes, but one of my friends have eyes that bug out so I don't know.
4.The eyes often have dark circles under them.

There are probably more. Both my mom and me figured this out about Aspies, my mom isn't Aspie though she has ADHD but my dad has Asperger's and we know MANY Aspies.
What do you guys think? Do Aspies look a certain way? Did I miss anything?

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25 Jan 2012, 9:12 pm

No they don't. Yes, these facial characteristics are more common, but they are by no means required.

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25 Jan 2012, 9:35 pm

Top lip shape? What shape?
And slanted eyes I thought that was more of a down syndrome thing.

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25 Jan 2012, 9:47 pm

very scientific indeed

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25 Jan 2012, 10:00 pm

theaspiemusician wrote:

4.The eyes often have dark circles under them.

I don't know about the other stuff, but I definitely feel at times that I've had more than my fair share of sleepless nights. Bet it's not too uncommon a sentiment

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25 Jan 2012, 10:02 pm

justalouise wrote:

theaspiemusician wrote:

4.The eyes often have dark circles under them.

I don't know about the other stuff, but I definitely feel at times that I've had more than my fair share of sleepless nights. Bet it's not too uncommon a sentiment

I feel like that after sleeping for any length of time.

I passed out for almost 20 hours once :lol:

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25 Jan 2012, 10:03 pm

I posted a link a while ago about researchers finding similar facial characteristics in autistic children http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt181874.html
About the study: https://nbsubscribe.missouri.edu/news-r ... -children/

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Children with autism have a broader upper face, including wider eyes.
Children with autism have a shorter middle region of the face, including the cheeks and nose.
Children with autism have a broader or wider mouth and philtrum – the divot below the nose, above the top lip.

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25 Jan 2012, 10:14 pm

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Children with autism have a broader upper face, including wider eyes.

Funny how one of my eyes is wider than the other. I wonder if this means I'm a mix of NT and Aspie?

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25 Jan 2012, 10:24 pm

theaspiemusician wrote:

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Children with autism have a broader upper face, including wider eyes.

Funny how one of my eyes is wider than the other. I wonder if this means I'm a mix of NT and Aspie?

It means nothing. Autism does not work like that.

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25 Jan 2012, 10:27 pm

Visual learner/thinker here, anyone have pictures of what they are talking about?

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25 Jan 2012, 10:35 pm

////COMPLETELY UNTESTED ORIGINAL THEORY////
It is my opinion that an individual with an autism spectrum disorder may be found to have some defined facial features due to the atrophied musculature in the face. This marked lack of muscular development in the face is likely a direct product of lack of facial expression, thus leaving the muscles unused and causing features common between individual autistics.

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25 Jan 2012, 10:39 pm

I'm thinking of two seriously autie guys I have meet. Both look like anybody else, except for their behavior and fact they can not talk.

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25 Jan 2012, 10:43 pm

Cognitively impaired people seem to me to have definable physical charecteristics.
In my unscientific, personal observation. But Aspies seem to me to be extreamly variable in physical appearance and other ways.

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25 Jan 2012, 11:23 pm

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Aspies have physical characteristics!! !

You mean like mass, volume, and temperature? I definitely have those characteristics. :wink:

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25 Jan 2012, 11:31 pm

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:

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Aspies have physical characteristics!! !

You mean like mass, volume, and temperature? I definitely have those characteristics. :wink:

Also, AS bodies contain volumes of gaseous, fluid, and solid matter.

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25 Jan 2012, 11:32 pm

theaspiemusician wrote:

Good guess but not even close. Unless you have met every aspie you can never be certain.

My mouth is smaller and more narrow than most adults so that is incorrect.

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