I yawned

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So, I'm at student.com reading various profiles and various questions and I don't yawn and I presume that's because they aren't boring to me. I come to wrong planet as part of my daily digital nomadicism and start reading the topic's titles in the General Autism Discussion sub forum and I start to yawn and then I quickly back up to the root of the forum to check out another subforum. This suggests... I found this forum kind of boring while the "social scene" at student.com was interesting. Does this suggest I'm neurotypical in that I found a neurotypical setting "interesting" and an autistic setting "boring"? Or do autistics also find neurotypical settings online more interesting than autistic settings?

Or, maybe you are just tired.

It is 11:42, so it's possible but I was really hoping to interpret any relevant situation as evidence for being neurotypical. So, yes, assuming I was bored of information interesting to autistics (I assume most topics here are interesting to autistics?) and interested in information interesting to neurotypicals, does that suggest I'm... neurotypical? Or is neurotypical information more interesting to everybody?

Hate to burst your bubble here, but an NT wouldn't have over-analyzed a yawn like that

Any series of random data can be interpreted to mean anything you want. This is why people can claim the Bible is secretly a code that says Jesus is an alien and they can have the math to back them up, because there's enough letters in there that you can weasel whatever "secret code" you want out of it. Similarly, there is enough random information in your life to act as evidence that you are or are not neurotypical if you're looking for one or the other exclusively.

There is no evidence to suggest autistics value interaction with other autistics more than with neurotypicals.
There is no evidence to suggest autistics value interaction with neurotypicals more than with other autistics.
There is no evidence to suggest neurotypicals value online interaction with other neurotypicals more than with autistics.
There is no evidence to suggest neurotypicals value online interaction with autistics more than with other neurotypicals.
There is no evidence to suggest that student.com is defined primarily by being neurotypical and that you would not find the exact same community just as intriguing if it had a higher ratio of autistics.
There is no evidence to suggest that wrongplanet.net is defined primarily by being autistic and that you would not find the exact same community just as dull if it had a higher ratio of neurotypicals.
There is no evidence to suggest that you would not have yawned anyway regardless of what website you were browsing.

What your discovery tells you is that you yawned while browsing wrongplanet.net. The number of variables involved is so enormous that any further conclusion would be irrational.

If by "neurotypical information" you mean small talk,whether it bores me or not depends on what it's about.

Perhaps you found the info at the student site interesting for whatever reason? Just because it appeals to you doesn't mean it will to everyone. How can anyone possibly know if every Autistic will find the student site interesting? It depends on what the topics are.

So, I wonder if you yawn everytime you read the Autism General Discussion or just tonight? If it is just tonight, perhaps you are not in the mood to read and respond to the topics now but might be tomorrow or some other time?

Sometimes "NT" forums are more interesting. It all depends on what's going on and whether my interests are being talked about or not.

Why are you so bent on finding every little reason possible to prove you don't have AS?

I find it interesting that you are so hyper focused on the correctness of your diagnosis. As said above, an NT wouldn't have analyzed a yawn to such a degree. You do this with not just yawning, but with many of your actions. You've placed yourself under a microscope and are analyzing the crap out of minute details. This is something people with Asperger's do. This does not confirm Asperger's, but it certainly is a mark in the plus column.