a funny question about an aspie boy smiling

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i'm sorry if this question might come as really annoying to some people, but there is a boy i have seen near my home for a while now and i have liked him very much for a long time (never liked person i know in real life, always basically strangers), and the infatuation is something which has grown stronger and stronger and also i believe it's partly because of the thought caused by the feeling and analysis i have gotten from his behaviour that he might like be back for some reason too (these are very rational facts but they would take very long to be all written here but just somethimes he also seems to be avoiding me and seems very anxious and tense but i hope it's bc he might be scared or maybe thinking that i might know his intentions and not like him back personally etc.. and whatever. but yeah). and i have a very strong feeling about him having aspergers too since im very good at observation etc.... (stimming and eye blinking and stiff and odd posture and walk and big intoversion and many other things too)


TL;DR basically the last time i saw this boy again in my bus, we hadn't made much direct eye contact for a while since he always seems to be scared and anxious around me and me too and i have rarely dared to look at him, but the last time he finally looked at my direction in the bus and as he looked into that direction (which he did two times) both of these times the final glance was directly at me and then he quickly turned away his head again (and those two times when i saw he was starting to turn his head at my direction i also finally took my s**t together and was immediately prepared to already look into his eyes too so we made an extremely brief eye contact for these two times) and then..... what happened a few short moments after the second glance this boy just started smiling on his own (out of the 20 times i had seen him before i had never really saw him smiling) and he just looked into emptiness and just stood there and smiled on his own for like a f*****g 15 seconds or more (like not just a reactional brief smile but just standing there with a smile on his face for a pretty long time like i said)

i know none of you could say anything about this for sure but please don't blame me for that as i just thought that because of the very possibel recognition that he might be an aspie too his reactions could be a bit more distinct from a typical person and this boy is driving me crazy anyways and maybe some of you could just give your opinions on this specific situation and tell me if this sort of reaction could still be a pretty evident giveaway of his intentions...

thank you very much

Why can't you go up and say hi to him?

That's why we need some kind of Batman-like symbol that let's you know if a peer of yours is autistic. Obviously it would only work for us, not for the NTs. "Is Sally autistic like me? Oh joy, she has the symbol over her head! That means I can stim without being judged!"

Now to answer your question, does he want you to know he is an aspie? Does he know if you know that he is? Of course, this is assuming you are on speaking terms to begin with.

Possibly interpretation:

"Hmm look at this interesting bus. OH GOD I MADE EYE CONTACT WITH SOMEONE. Oh that cloud is really nice" *smiles*

We can't say what this boy is thinking based on this paragraph. I would suggest saying hi, or asking him out.

You could start up a conversation with him and then mention Asperger's and see what he says or does.

Would you feel more comfortable around him if he was also an aspie?

I think asking if he's aspie would be too abrupt.

Maybe saying Hi, asking how he's doing today, asking if he thinks the weather's going to get hotter (or cooler)

that is, the small talk, then kind of skimmingly look for common interests. Yes, thinking he might be spectrum informs your reaction, but still helpful to go through these steps. I mean, it kind of demonstrates that he can have dependable, predictable interactions with you, right? And then from that base can dance upward to the interesting stuff.

Still figuring all this out myself!

I can't say for sure if he's into you, but it seems rather likely given my experience because that's about how I tend to behave when I have a crush on someone. Regardless though, I do suggest you go talk to him. I remember one time when I had a crush on someone and it took me a year and a half of being her friend before I got the courage to tell her. If he's anything like me then he is probably too nervous to initiate a conversation with you himself. I suggest you don't bring up Aspergers and instead try to get him talking about one of his special interests.

thank you for your answers..

. i'm sorry maybe i expressed myself too confusingly, i'm not trying to figur out whether he's an aspie or not but the question was just rather about the smile, which might sound like and annoying question and interpretation of a random detail about a random person to some people, so i wouldn't ask such thing if i thought he was an NT. but just a question for those people who are a little more opened and willing to answer random stuff... and since aspies tend to act differently OBVIOUSLY and this really was a very intersting and long (! !! !) smile, and also because some aspies tend to giggle randomly for no reason i wanted to sort this option out and hope it wasn't just a random giggle (bc it still wasn't really a giggle at all but a pretty long lasting content looking smile). as about the talking to him thing yes i've planned to do this for a very while now but i just don't see him so often and if he's not directly right next to me i wouldn't do that because i wouldn't just stand up and go walk next to him and start talking... im rather waiting for a moment where he happens to stand or sit next to me so it would be a much easier to start a conversation.

yes but i also added the information that i've been feeling that this infatuation might be mutual for a while already based on some pretty strong facts... so i wouldn't have asked the question when there wouldn't have been some earlier things... but just because of his sometimes very avoiding behaviour i still can't figure those things out clearly and it's driving me CRAZY so i just wanted to ask a very specific question about this latest little happening, and before that smile he didn't seem to look outside or anything like this just sort of had his eyes directed on nothing (rather on the floor) and smiling... but still thank you for your answer

what do you mean by your similar behaviour with crushes? did you mean that you also tend to be very avoidant and rather even escape from them sometimes (which would be great because this is the sort of behaviour about him that is making me very sad because i personally (like empathetically) do no understand it and it's making me think the opposite...


thank you for your answer

There were two occasions in the last year where a girl appeared to show interest in me. In both cases I pretended to be oblivious to it until I could come up with some way to flirt back. I avoided conversation with them because I was nervous and I had no idea what to say, I wanted to wait until I had some solid plan because I am not very good at spontaneously generating things to say especially when I am nervous. In both cases they eventually seemed to give up on me. I do see where I went wrong and all, but I'm still trying to figure out the whole flirting and dating thing and I'm not very good at it yet.