Getting mistaken for someone on drugs!

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Yeah, you read that right! People always say that my vacant expression is similar to the face someone would have when theyre completely off their face ! And im not sure if this is an aspergers thing, its probably an anxiety symptom actually, but my pupils dilate to a MASSIVE size when im in social situations making me look even more out of it.
I sometimes even feel that maybe my brain is 'on drugs'. It would explain the deja vu, the time distortions and lack of spatial awareness. I also have weird tics and tremors and can 'feel' my brain working. If I had synesthesia, I wouldnt need to take any drugs, my brain would be drugged up enough without them!
Does anyone else get comments like 'are you high?'?
Or does anyone feel as if their brain is 'on drugs' as I put it?
Thanks!

Makes me wonder if people don't think I'm on drugs because I can get very disoriented when under stress. That, along with my eyes frequently being bloodshot and having dark circles around my eyes that look like black eyes from a distance might give someone that impression. It doesn't help I have poor motor control, have a low tolerance for alcohol and am extremely tall and lanky: one time I was expecting to get thrown out of a bar because I had a whopping one drink and couldn't stand straight.

I've been told that before. A guidance counselor in high school that was always honest with me said that if she didn't know better, she would have thought I was high. (This was before I ever smoked marijuana for the first time) And as far as weed is concerned, it never really had much of an effect on me, since I'm already like that anyway. The only thing too much weed would do is turn me into a slow witted stoner, so I learned not to have too much,and since a little doesn't change me, I told my friend to save his weed for himself.

Being socially awkward in a hyper-social way= on drugs, especially if under the age of 30.

People used to tell me I was naturally "high"...

I have felt like I was on drugs because of my memory. But it was the depression doing it and my working memory issues. It was also me being surrounded by loud base that was doing it too with my hearing. But once I broke up with my ex, the problems went away. At my old job, when I moved to day time, the problems went away too because it was more routine and I could function better and maybe because I was eating better. Not enough food can effect your brain too.

Kids have asked me in high school if I do drugs but no one has ever accused me of doing them.

Yeah I get this all the time, even from my own family.

Generally when I did get high everyone thought i was sober.

Funny how that works.

The other kids in my middle school used to make fun of me saying I was "on crack" all the time because of the spacey far-away look I apparently have sometimes. I do see it in pictures.....sometimes I look really stoned............

I was once accused of regularly showing up to the school computer lab stoned because I couldn't remember people's names, even after seeing them 5+ times, even though the real reason was low face vision.

Most times, though, when accused of being intoxicated in some way, I WAS intoxicated.

I used to get asked that a lot but never when I really was stoned lol.

I've had people think I looked high even though I wasn't when I was a teenager but no one has said anything like that in a while.

Yeah, that is one reason I don't think I would make it through a job interview.

Back when I was in junior high/high school, people used to ALWAYS assume I was high on marijuana. For the record I have never touched a single drug (including alcohol) in my life, but people always assumed because I had chronic dry/red eyes and kind of droopy eyes. Luckily now that my face has gotten slightly older it no longer has a 'high' look lol.

Yeah, I had the nickname "stoner boy" as a kid cuz I looked stoned all the time.

I keep wondering if I look like I'm stoned every time I start staring at things in public. Never actually been accused of it though.