The AS people I have known, but hadn't IDed them.

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Now that I am learning more about the spectrum and how common we are, I am remembering people I have known who are pretty obviously aspies. Maybe not so surprisingly, I am finding this subject much harder to write about than my own AS. One very of the most obvious examples was twin sisters I met with a hiking meetup group. When they arrived in a car and were parked out of earshot of the group. I sensed something was up with them by the way people, who knew them from other meetups, were talking about them. This didn't stop me from walking over to greet them. Their AS personality was identical. Got mixed signals as to how they felt about me. I don't remember talking to them after that, but was a little surprised they didn't initiate further conversation. Not that surprising now that I see them as AS. I've worked with men who had obvious similarities to me. Now I understand some clear signs they showed like stims, rigid behaviors, etc.

Anyone else notice experience this?

I can think of a few people I've met who might have been.
A boy who used to live in the house behind my parents when I was a kid who was quite obviously odd - I can recall thinking "I'm a little like him", without knowing what "like him" even was. Another boy who came up to me in a store when I was a teen and launched into a long monologue to me about hair care products - he kept talking for ages while barely looking at me, but seemed sad when I left. A boy in my high school who never spoke to anyone but read books constantly, even while walking to his classes. A patient in a clinic I once worked at who was so rigid about having his appointments at the same day and time each week that he used to make me schedule them out a year in advance.
Of course, it's all just guessing, I never knew any of them very well.

At least two of my three friends at secondary school were probably aspie, one of those certainly.

College friends, one certainly, one maybe.

Obvious now when you know what to look for, but at the time they were just friends - BUT and I think this is the important part - only at school/college - we didn't visit each other's houses and we never went out after school/college anywhere.

Even most lunch times I would go off on my own somewhere to a chippy for my dinner. Never thought that might be odd.

Then there are the several TV "characters" and musicians that I like - quite a few are probably "aspie" or aspie.