Does anyone else have "NT moments"?

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When I have NT moments I feel happy and relaxed. I also have no problems socializing or reading body language during my NT moments. I also feel like my obsessions are more like interests. NT moments are very rare for me. They usually only last a few hours. When I'm not having an NT moment I feel hyper, depressed and obsessive. I also feel the need to act NT when I'm not having an NT moment. Unfortunately that really drains my energy.

I recently made a post about feeling NT, or those who have an ASD, or who were diagnosed with an ASD and feel NT majority of the time. Feel free to filter though my posts and check it out.

I have never had any NT moments. I have enjoyed having long interesting one-on-one conversations with people, but I have never read non-verbal cues or applied NT ToM during any of these NT-esque socializations.

I feel like an NT when I'm able to look into somebody's eyes, if only for a moment. I also feel like an NT when I'm able to make small talk, which doesn't happen for very long, but I feel proud of myself when it does.

When I'm consciously trying, I can behave in a way that you could probably mistake for neurotypical, although my ability to actually pick up on non-verbal cues is significantly limited. Again, it takes conscious effort, but it really does feel good because it's always fairly obvious when I'm succeeding. Slipping up once usually makes me upset enough that it's difficult to keep it going, though.

I have several NT moments a day but I can't quite think of what sort they are at the moment.

Going from Happy to depressed, and can read social queues... hmmm, where have i heard that before. Oh, i know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder

Yeah I've had them, when I felt comfortable socializing with a group of familiar friends, even if there's unfamiliar people, I was still enjoying myself. Reading body language, being expressive, actively participating in the social area, and fairly happy. Tho I still question myself to whether these NT moments, I just feel more relaxed to let out the weirdo aspie. There are outgoing aspies out there.

Even when I'm social and not having any difficulties in that I don't feel at all like an NT. I still am over-analyzing everything, still have sensory issues to deal with, still would be driven crazy by people making me make an arbitrary decision or people accusing me of being something that I'm not, and still won't so much as make eye contact with someone who I don't trust very deeply. I'm me, including all my aspie traits, even when am in a situation associated with NTs.

Then again I just feel like myself who happens to be describable by the label "autistic" or "aspie" not like "aspie moments" or "NT moments" really exist. It's just Tuttle being Tuttle.

Most of the time I don't have too much problems with eye contact.

None that I can remember.

I rarely have NT moments but I'm proud when I have them. I'll stop trying when I make a mistake, though

Especially the last part. I don't "feel like an Aspie" or "feel like an NT": I'm just me. I spent more than sixty years being me, without knowing that there _was_ an Aspie/NT difference. I mainly had problems that were clearly Clinical Depression, and wished that I had and/or could keep more friends than I could ever seem to. And of course I had problems with people over various issues: who doesn't? It just turned out after I learned about Asperger's that most of those issues rooted in my being an AspieMe. I had even learned to lose the adult telltales like looking people in the eye, especially since it didn't bother me all that much in the first place, not nearly as much as it bothers some of the rest of you.