Do you look autistic?

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i dont mean physical Characteristics, i mean are you told that your mannerisms, stance, facial expressions, and clothing look autistic?

i walked into a frozen yogurt store yesterday and sat in a spin chair and started spinning around, when i stopped, i noticed people were staring at me. it kinda confused me, i didnt know why they were staring. i asked my dad when we got in the car and he said it was everything, my behaviour, my hair, my clothes, my stance, and my mannerism.

have you been told that you look/act autistic?

people who don't know what aspergers is just call me a freak or weird and hate me

people who know what it is recognize it

Strangers have stared when I was hand-flapping at a ice cream place once...
being aloof, stimming, could speak a sentence was noticed by certain people.

look/act autistic? possibly.

edit: yes can't control much.

I embrace my odd-ball left-field antics and behaviours, they seem to help me in most situations.
However....
In clubs, bars, parties and other group social gatherings; I cant hide... I just look odd in that follow-you-down-a-dark-alley kinda way.

NO, I am just told that I come across as weird, standoffish, unfriendly, eccentric, strange or aloof or a combination of those.

What I have not been told is that I come across as normal.

I am very reserved in public, except when I forget where I am and talk to myself. I try to come across as friendly, or what I think is friendly, but this does not seem to work well.

I was told by the person who first told me that I am Autistic that he could tell from the first moment he saw me. But he is an expert though. And many people tell me and my husband, "Oh, she does not look Autistic, we could have never known. " And my husband will tell them, "it's obvious if you live with her." My brother will tell people the same thing except that he does not live with us. But I don't see or hang out with my brother every day and he told me once that I am so high functioning that sometimes he forgets that I have Asperger's when we are hanging out and then I'll do or say something really Aspie like and then he'll be like, "What in the world???" And then he remembers. But most of the time it's pretty obvious to him.

I have also had friends that when I first told them when I found out that I am Aspie, say that they thought I was a bit odd but could not quite put their finger on why or what was up with me. And once I told them they said that it made sense to them and they could tell. Mostly they could tell by how I behaved sometimes especially when I was with a group of people. But if they only knew me very casually or on a one on one basis, they would not be able to tell.

And Zombie Bride, my brother has spinning stools at his job and sometimes when I go there I spin in them too! But I do it more back and forth because they are really low to the ground and they don't have a stop so if you spin too much the seat will just spin right off the stool stand and you'll fall on the ground!

Doesn't everyone spin around on those spinny chairs and stools? I do.

[quote="bumble"]Doesn't everyone spin around on those spinny chairs and stools? I do.[/quote

There's spinning, and there's spinning.

I might gently twirl around once on them. No one would probably look. A group of teen boys might spin around a few times on the stools, acting silly. People would look up and shrug or think idiot.

A little kid under four could probably really spin on those stools, and people think it is cute.

Above that age, to really spin a stool around (sans a group of giggle friends), you're gonna get looked at. It's not considered socially acceptable, and people will wonder what your deal is.

I do agree, it is fun to do!

I don't think I look Autistic. I think I look a bit shy or nervous when it comes to making eye contact with strangers (unless it's for specific purpose like with a cashier or bus-driver, etc). But that doesn't scream out Autism.

I sometimes wonder if I sound different when I talk, though. Sometimes when I'm with someone and I'm talking to them, people turn round and look at me as if something in the way I speak grabs their attention. I don't know why, as I know I don't stutter or talk too slow or too fast or have a slur or lisp or odd monotone or odd accent or anything else that's ''different''. Even if I did speak like that, so what? I often hear someone sounding a little funny when they talk but it doesn't make me want to turn round and stare at them.

I think people just love making me feel self-conscious, even though they don't like to feel self-conscious. It is called hypocrisy.

I don't know for sure what "i might, not really though" means, but I thought it sounded good.

I think the way I hold my posture, and the way I look around a room, etc. is probably more fitting for looking like someone with general anxiety disorder and low self-esteem.

I've been referred to as very eccentric, so probably, yeah.

I don't really know. But I don't think I do that much.
Some people sometimes have asked me if I were autistic but I usually tell people just about ADD and when they ask me about the "autistic-like behaviours" I say they're just side-traits of ADD.
Once I probably looked way more impaired but I don't think I do anymore.
My mother went to talk to my literature teacher last month and she told her that I was diagnosed with Asperger's and ADD. She replied that she had guessed something about ADD but that I look higher-functioning than her 13-year-old son with Asperger's.
Up to a few years ago I was worse off than now. When I was 13 I was a mess. My mother was very preoccupied for me back then because I was quite low-functioning.
When I started 9th grade all the teachers told my mother they had noticed severe social and emotional problems in me, and some academic and behavioural ones (I interrupted teachers a lot, I threw trantums, I threw stuff across the classroom). Now I am in 11th grade and the teachers said they noticed social problems mostly and the attention ones. They all noticed ADD but not really AS.

I honestly don't know. I don't think I do but I don't see how I'm being viewed obviously. I think I probably can pass as NT in most instances.

I'm pretty normal looking and nothing about me screams Aspie since I am so reserved and quite. My only real "tell" is lack of eye contact and maybe some odd phrasings and vocal tone every now and then (usually if I am caught off guard and need to speak spontaneously).

That being said, people tell me that I am likeable and I have a group of friends (although not really close with anyone). Someone once said I was "unassuming". I don't think anyone would suspect me off Asperger's unless they were an expert. I really haven't told anyone either.

From videos of myself I say a look slightly off, but by no means blatantly autistic.